# Memberships with Membership Pro (Pro)

<div class="callout info" id="bkmrk-pro-version.-this-fe">**Pro version.** This feature is part of the Pro version of Fileshelf. What the Free version does is covered under *Free version and Pro version*.

</div>With Membership Pro you sell memberships; Fileshelf binds downloads and categories to their **plans**. Members with a matching active plan download, everyone else is shown the way there: to the login, the subscription or the renewal. The bridge is tested with Membership Pro 4.7.1.

## Assigning plans

You choose the plans in the download (tab **Access**, section **Plans**) and in the category (tab **Plans**). One or more are possible. Which plans apply:

1. the plans of the download, if it has its own;
2. otherwise the plans of the main category – or of the nearest one above it, because a category also covers its subcategories;

Plans of an **additional category** do not count: a download in a free main category that also lies in a category for members stays free and still appears in the members' category. Only with the option **Access through additional categories: Strictest** (Options → Downloads) the plans of the first additional category that has some apply as well – as there for access levels.

Without plans a download needs no membership. With several plans one of them is enough; in the plugin **Fileshelf - Membership Pro** you can switch to “All plans are needed”.

<figure id="bkmrk-the-plans-of-a-downl"> ![The Plans tab of a download with the plan Premium selected](https://docs.graup-it.de/uploads/images/gallery/2026-11/1dodoku-30-plaene.png) <figcaption>The plans of a download.</figcaption></figure>## What visitors see

- **Guests** see a lock with the name of the plan and go to the login.
- **Members without the plan** go to the subscription of the plan in Membership Pro.
- **Members whose plan has run out** go to the renewal.

A link of the Pro version (single-use or expiring link) opens a download without a plan, too – whoever hands out the link decides.

## My downloads

Create a menu item of the type **Fileshelf → Extension page** and choose the page **My downloads**. Logged-in members see all downloads their membership opens, by category; guests go to the login.

<figure id="bkmrk-%E2%80%9Cmy-downloads%E2%80%9D-on-th"> ![The page My downloads with three manuals for members with the plan Basic](https://docs.graup-it.de/uploads/images/gallery/2026-11/mNmdoku-31-meine-downloads.png) <figcaption>“My downloads” on the website.</figcaption></figure>## Welcome mail

If you like, a member gets a mail as soon as their membership becomes active – with the downloads it opens and a link to “My downloads”. Switch on the *Welcome mail* in the plugin **Fileshelf - Membership Pro**. The mails are sent by the scheduled task **Fileshelf - Send notifications**; edit the text under **System → Mail Templates**.

## When Membership Pro changes

When Membership Pro is installed, the dashboard of Fileshelf shows a tile **Membership Pro**as the last one of the quick access, with the version and the number of downloads and categories with plans. If its tables look different than expected after an update, downloads with plans stay locked – never open – and the tile names the reason. If Membership Pro is newer than the tested version, the tile says so; plans keep working.

When Membership Pro is not installed or switched off, there is no tile. If downloads or categories still have plans, they stay locked, and the dashboard reports it under **Needs your attention** with a link to the extensions. The form then shows the tab **Plans** only for entries that still have plans.

[Deutsche Fassung](https://docs.graup-it.de/link/442)