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title: Get started with MemberPress.ai
description: Connect your MemberPress site with one free plugin and one approval, then get to your first payment. No WordPress site yet? Here's what to get first.
image: https://memberpress.ai/og/get-started.png
url: https://memberpress.ai/get-started/
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Get started

# Connect your site, then _get to your first payment._

You want members paying you, not another setup project. MemberPress.ai works from your own site, so the first step is connecting it. That takes one free plugin and one approval.

## Have a WordPress site? Three steps.

1.  ### Install the free MemberPress.ai Plugin
    
    Download the free zip. In wp-admin go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, upload it, and activate it. It needs MemberPress on your site, free or paid. If you don't have it yet, get MemberPress at memberpress.com/plans first.
    
2.  ### Click Connect and approve once
    
    Open MemberPress AI → Connections and click Connect to memberpress.ai. Sign in to MemberPress.ai and approve your site. No licence keys, and your password never leaves your site.
    
3.  ### Tell Opal what you sell
    
    She sets up your Join and Checkout pages and tells you what's left before a member can pay. Chat opens in wp-admin under MemberPress AI, and she answers from your own site's numbers.
    

[Download the plugin](https://api.memberpress.ai/api/v1/plugin/foundation/latest-download) or read [how connecting works](https://memberpress.ai/connect/).

## No WordPress site yet?

MemberPress.ai runs on WordPress, so you'll need a site first. Two things to get:

-   **A host that lets you install plugins.** Most free plans, and WordPress.com's lower plans, don't. Check before you buy.
-   **WordPress installed on it.** Most hosts do this in one click. You're ready when you can log in to your site's wp-admin.

Then come back and follow the three steps above. If an AI assistant is helping you, send it to [our page for AI agents](https://memberpress.ai/agents/).

## Ready when you are

Connect your site, tell Opal what you sell, and get to your first paying member.

[Connect a site→](https://memberpress.ai/connect/)