Zenbership Hosting
Zenbership is a discontinued open-source membership CRM and commerce application. Its historical tools combine member and account records, subscriptions, dues, invoices, products, forms, event pages, email campaigns, payment processing, and administrative automation for clubs, associations, and membership websites.
Zenbership is relevant only to organizations maintaining an existing installation or recovering member and transaction records for migration. It is not suitable for a new production membership website because official support and updates stopped in 2018, development of a proposed version 2 was abandoned, and its dependencies are outdated.

Zenbership Overview and Features
Who Zenbership Is For
Zenbership is relevant only to organizations maintaining an existing installation or recovering member and transaction records for migration. It is not suitable for a new production membership website because official support and updates stopped in 2018, development of a proposed version 2 was abandoned, and its dependencies are outdated.
Zenbership is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. Retain the license and copyright notices supplied with the package. Payment gateways, email providers, third-party libraries, themes, and local modifications can have separate terms and should be reviewed during migration.
Maintenance and Compatibility Notice
Zenbership is deprecated and unsupported. The official repository states that support and updates have been suspended since 2018 and that, as of March 2020, there were no plans to continue development. Keep existing installations restricted, avoid collecting new sensitive or payment data, export records, and plan migration to maintained software.
Member records
Maintain historical member profiles, accounts, statuses, notes, and activity.
Subscriptions and dues
Manage recurring membership plans, billing schedules, renewals, and balances.
Invoices and commerce
Create invoices and process historical product or membership transactions.
Forms and event pages
Build public-facing registration, checkout, and event pages in supported releases.
Email campaigns
Segment member records and send configured messages or drip campaigns.
Administrative automation
Use historical rules, tasks, permissions, and reporting to manage membership operations.
Choose a Zenbership Hosting Plan
Compare expected users, concurrent activity, customer or membership records, documents, email, reports, database growth, scheduled jobs, and backup retention. Choose enough capacity for normal peaks and leave room for exports, updates, and verified restores.
Pro Personal
For portfolios & blogsRenews at $7.99/mo
- 25 GB SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- 5 Email Accounts
- 5 Parked Domains
- 5 Sub Domains
- 1 Website
Pro Business
Growing teams & shopsRenews at $10.99/mo
- 50 GB SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- 25 Email Accounts
- 25 Parked Domains
- 25 Sub Domains
- 5 Websites
Pro Ultimate
For Unlimited ScaleRenews at $15.99/mo
- Unlimited SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Parked Domains
- Unlimited Sub Domains
- Unlimited Websites
Ways to Use Zenbership
Legacy membership access
Keep an existing installation privately available during replacement planning.
Member data recovery
Export profiles, memberships, subscriptions, invoices, payments, and notes.
Billing-history archive
Preserve historical dues and transaction information under restricted access.
Migration preparation
Map Zenbership accounts, plans, fields, forms, and payment references to a maintained platform.
Installing Zenbership
RSH Web Services offers Zenbership installation through Softaculous in cPanel. Use the installer first to create the application files and any required database or administrator account. For manual installation, obtain the trusted current package, follow its official instructions, protect configuration and storage paths, and apply only documented permissions. RSH Web Services can help with installation.
Hosting Requirements
Zenbership was built for legacy PHP and MySQL environments, and its old documentation does not establish compatibility with currently supported runtimes. Do not expose it by forcing installation on a modern server. Use a private, temporary recovery environment only after reviewing the code, dependencies, database, file permissions, mail, and payment configuration.
Setup Checklist
Configure administrator credentials, staff roles, records, mail, exports, document storage, scheduled jobs, and backups that apply to this platform. Test recovery workflows with non-administrator accounts before permitting access.
Migrating or Upgrading Zenbership
Begin with cPanel backups of the application, configuration, database when used, and all managed files. For a Softaculous-managed installation, use only the backup, clone, restore, or upgrade controls displayed for Zenbership before manual steps. Follow the documented version path and test users, roles, records, exports, reports, documents, integrations, and scheduled jobs on a private copy. Softaculous upgrades Zenbership only; it does not convert another CRM or membership platform into Zenbership.
Zenbership Security
Restrict access to trusted users, use unique credentials, apply least-privilege application and filesystem roles, protect customer or membership records, and secure configuration and uploaded-document paths. Review logs, remove unused accounts, and install supported security updates after testing. Hosting protections add useful layers but cannot repair unsupported application code or prevent damage by an overprivileged account.
Backups and Recovery
Back up the application, configuration, database when used, user accounts, roles, customer or membership records, transactions where used, documents, reports, and configuration needed for recovery. Keep multiple dated restore points and at least one copy outside the hosting account. Restore a private copy periodically and confirm that users, roles, records, transactions, documents, reports, email, and scheduled jobs work together.
All Zenbership Plans Include
DDoS Security Monitoring
A Distributed Denial of Service attack disrupts the operations of a website, server, or network by flooding it with unwanted Internet traffic.
WordPress Easy Install
With cPanel users can install configure, secure, update, and manage WordPress through the WP Toolkit interface.
Secure Email
Access your email program or the online Webmail interface using Secure SSL certification (HTTPS) protocol.
cPanel
With over 80 features to manage all aspects of your hosting account, website, email and domains.
Softaculous App Installer
A time and hassle-saving, automatic script installer with over 380+ scripts, and 1115 PHP classes classes like WordPress
Website Transfers
Free cPanel or WordPress website transfers with no down time, other types of migrations also available.
Spam Assassin
A program used to detect unsolicited, unwanted and virus-infected emails and stop or reject the spam messages.
FTP Access
FTP is a program that allows you to transfer files from your computer to your website.
Site Backups
Backups can be configure with the Backup Wizard in cPanel or right within WordPress.
Free SSL Certificates
Provide secure, encrypted communications between a website and an Internet, RSH Web provides free SSL certs.
Zenbership Resources
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Frequently Asked Questions
How should user roles be configured in Zenbership?
Give each person only the permissions required for their work. Separate system administrators, managers, finance users, sales or service staff, and read-only users as the application allows. Test every role with a non-administrator account, document who can export, delete, invoice, change settings, or view sensitive records, and review access whenever responsibilities change.
What customer data should be stored in Zenbership?
Store only information needed for a defined business or organizational purpose. Establish rules for contact details, communications, financial records, notes, uploaded documents, and custom fields. Avoid unrestricted free-form notes containing unnecessary sensitive data. Document the lawful basis, retention period, correction process, export procedure, and deletion responsibilities that apply to each record category.
How should duplicate contacts be handled in Zenbership?
Define a matching process before importing data, using reliable identifiers such as organization, email, account number, or another approved field. Review suspected matches manually when records contain transactions or activity history. Merge only with a tested procedure, preserve ownership and relationships, and keep a backup so an incorrect merge does not permanently damage customer or organizational records.
What should be tested before updating Zenbership?
Create matched backups and reproduce the installation in a private staging location. Follow the official upgrade path for the exact source and target versions. Test logins, roles, contacts, searches, imports, exports, email, reports, documents, scheduled jobs, enabled modules, and integrations. Confirm that the rollback procedure works before applying the update to production.
Can Zenbership replace an independent backup system?
No. Application features organize records but do not protect against a compromised administrator, failed upgrade, damaged database, deleted files, or account-level outage. Back up the application, configuration, database, uploaded documents, custom modules, and scheduled-task settings as one recovery set. Keep dated copies outside the live account and periodically test a private restoration.
How should email integration in Zenbership be secured?
Use a dedicated mailbox or approved service account, modern authentication where supported, and the minimum mailbox permissions necessary. Protect tokens and credentials, restrict who can send or read messages, and review logs for failures or unusual activity. Test threading, attachments, retention, opt-out handling, and shared-mailbox behavior before connecting a production customer mailbox.
How do I migrate records into Zenbership?
Clean and map source fields before import, then test a small representative batch. Preserve stable identifiers for organizations, contacts, transactions, activities, and ownership where supported. Check character encoding, dates, currencies, required fields, attachments, and duplicate rules. Compare record counts and sampled relationships after import, and retain the original export until users approve the result.
What reports should be checked after moving Zenbership?
Compare totals and record counts for customers, contacts, open activities, financial documents, projects, tickets, or other enabled modules. Run the same date ranges and filters on both systems, then inspect samples with attachments and linked records. Differences should be explained before launch, especially where reports support billing, accounting, compliance, or operational decisions.
How can Zenbership be recovered after a failed change?
Stop new activity and preserve the current application files, database, configuration, uploads, and logs. Restore a matched backup set to a private location and test logins, permissions, records, searches, reports, documents, email, and scheduled jobs. Avoid combining files and databases from different dates. Record the failure cause before attempting the change again.
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