Description
Connecting Points and Automation on Your Own Terms
AutomatorWP – MyCred bridges two systems that, on their own, only get you halfway to a working loyalty engine: a points economy and an automation framework that reacts to what your users actually do. This GPL-licensed WordPress plugin plugs myCred’s points management directly into AutomatorWP’s trigger-and-action architecture, meaning your site can award points automatically when something happens, and just as importantly, respond automatically when a user earns or loses points. That two-way relationship — points as both an outcome and a cause — is what separates this add-on from a simple points tally system bolted onto a membership site.
Most points plugins stop at the ledger. They’ll add or subtract a number from a user’s balance, show a nice widget on their profile, and call it done. AutomatorWP – MyCred goes further by treating point balances as a live signal your site can act on. A user loses points? That can trigger a re-engagement sequence. A user earns points? That can unlock a badge, send a notification, or kick off an entirely separate automation chain built in AutomatorWP. Because it’s GPL-licensed, you also get the transparency and flexibility that license entails — you can inspect, adapt, and run it across your own WordPress projects under those terms.
What Problem Does This Actually Solve?
Points systems and site automation tend to live in separate silos. You install myCred to track and award points. You install AutomatorWP to handle rules like “when a user comments, do X” or “when a user logs in for the 10th time, do Y.” Without a bridge between them, myCred’s point events are invisible to AutomatorWP, and AutomatorWP’s actions can’t touch myCred’s point balances. You end up manually coding hooks, hiring a developer for custom snippets, or simply giving up on the more ambitious loyalty mechanics you had in mind.
The deeper issue is that reward systems rarely work as one-directional processes. A real loyalty program needs feedback loops: reward good behavior, notice when engagement drops, respond when a balance crosses a threshold. If your points plugin can’t talk to your automation plugin, you’re stuck building half a system. Site owners running membership communities, online courses, or content platforms with gamification elements often hit this wall right when they try to make points mean something beyond a number on a profile page.
How AutomatorWP – MyCred Helps
This add-on closes that gap by giving AutomatorWP native awareness of myCred’s point events and native control over myCred’s point balances. Instead of writing custom PHP to hook into myCred’s internal actions, you configure it visually through AutomatorWP’s automation builder. You pick a trigger — a user earning points, a user losing points — and pair it with any other action across your AutomatorWP-connected plugins. Equally, you can use myCred point changes as the action itself, awarding or deducting points automatically whenever an automation you’ve built determines it should happen.
This turns myCred from a passive record-keeper into an active participant in your site’s automation logic. Say a member’s point balance drops below a certain level after a deduction — that “user lost points” trigger can fire off a re-engagement email, restrict access to a resource, or notify an admin, all without touching a line of code. Conversely, any action happening elsewhere on your WordPress site — a forum post, a completed course module, a WooCommerce purchase, provided the relevant AutomatorWP integrations are active — can become the reason a user earns or loses myCred points. The logic runs in the background, tied to the rules you define once and never have to touch again.
Core Features
- User earns points trigger — fires an automation whenever myCred adds points to a user’s balance, letting you chain follow-up actions to positive point events.
- User lost points trigger — fires when myCred deducts points from a user, useful for catching negative balance changes and responding before engagement drops further.
- Award points to user action — lets any AutomatorWP automation grant myCred points as a reward step, without manual intervention from an admin.
- Deduct points to user action — allows automations to subtract myCred points as a consequence step, useful for enforcing rules tied to inactivity or policy violations.
- Full trigger and action set included — both triggers and both actions ship with this single add-on; there’s no separate purchase needed to access the complete feature set.
- Standard license terms — a license key activates updates and information delivery for each installation, with one year of updates and support included per license.
Each of these pieces is simple individually. The value is in how they combine. Because triggers and actions from AutomatorWP – MyCred sit inside the same automation builder as every other AutomatorWP integration, you’re not limited to mixing points logic with other points logic. A “user earns points” trigger can call an action from an entirely different plugin integration, and an “award points to user” action can be the final step in a chain that started with a trigger having nothing to do with myCred at all.
Practical Applications
Membership site owners can use the earns/loses points triggers to build tiered response systems. Imagine a community platform where members accumulate myCred points through participation. Once a member earns enough points to cross a milestone, that earn event can automatically trigger a role change, a badge award, or an email congratulating them — all handled through AutomatorWP’s builder rather than manual admin review.
Online course creators can use the award and deduct actions to gamify progress. Completing a lesson (tracked via whatever AutomatorWP integration handles the LMS) becomes the trigger, and awarding myCred points becomes the action. Students see their point balance grow as they move through material, and instructors never have to update anything by hand once the automation is built.
Content publishers running comment-driven or contribution-based communities can use the deduct points action as a moderation tool. If a user’s content gets flagged or removed through an automation elsewhere on the site, a point deduction can follow automatically, and the resulting “user lost points” trigger can notify moderators or restrict further posting until the balance recovers.
E-commerce sites running WooCommerce alongside myCred can tie point balance changes into broader retention workflows. A points deduction after an order cancellation or return, for instance, becomes a trigger that starts a customer win-back sequence, rather than something a store owner has to notice and act on manually.
What Should You Know Before Installing?
Does this replace myCred or AutomatorWP?
No. AutomatorWP – MyCred is an add-on that connects the two plugins; you’ll still need both myCred and AutomatorWP active on your WordPress site for the triggers and actions to function. Think of it as the wiring between two systems rather than a replacement for either one.
Do I get both triggers and both actions with one license?
Yes. Unlike some add-ons that split functionality across free and pro tiers, this package includes the full set — both the “user earns points” and “user lost points” triggers, and both the “award points to user” and “deduct points to user” actions — under a single license.
How many sites can I activate this add-on on?
That depends on the license tier you select at purchase, ranging from a smaller number of sites up to unlimited activations. Each individual WordPress installation will need its own valid license key entered to receive updates.
What happens when my license period ends?
Your license covers one year of updates and support access from the date of purchase. After that period, the plugin will continue running on your site, but you won’t receive new updates or information until the license is renewed.
Compatibility and Requirements
- Current version: 1.0.0
- Requires WordPress version 4.4 or higher
- Requires an active myCred installation and an active AutomatorWP installation to function
- Each site activation requires a valid license key to receive updates and information
For any WordPress site already running myCred for points and looking to connect that system to broader site automation, AutomatorWP – MyCred fills the specific gap between “tracking points” and “acting on points.” It’s a narrow, purpose-built add-on rather than a sprawling all-in-one tool, and that focus is exactly what makes it straightforward to configure and predict once it’s running.
