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Summary

  • Adds Standalone Level setting: one-time purchases that don't assign a membership, don't cancel existing memberships, and can always be repurchased. Ideal for donations, gifts, event tickets, etc.
  • Adds Allow Guest Checkout setting (on standalone levels): lets users check out without creating a WordPress account.
  • All standalone and guest checkout logic lives in a single new file includes/standalone-levels.php, hooked into core via filters and actions.
  • Adds general-purpose hooks and filters that are useful beyond standalone/guest checkout.

Still TODO

  • Wording and UX during standalone checkout (email templates still reference "membership")
  • Wording and UX when a purchase has been completed as a guest
  • Ensure Add Ons handle orders and checkouts without user IDs gracefully
  • Consider hiding billing/expiration/recurring fields on the edit level page when standalone is checked
  • Consider dedicated email templates for standalone/guest checkouts
  • Test with all payment gateways
  • Test with key Add Ons (Donations, Gift Levels, Sponsored Members)

Test plan

  • Create a membership level, check "Standalone Level" under Other Settings
  • Verify the levels list shows "Standalone level. No membership assigned." in the cost column
  • Check out for the standalone level while logged in — verify no membership assigned, redirected to invoice page
  • Check "Allow Guest Checkout", check out while logged out with the guest checkbox — verify no user created, order saved with guest_email in meta, redirected to invoice page with email access
  • Verify guest order shows guest email in admin orders list and order view sidebar
  • Verify recurring billing is blocked on standalone levels

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Standalone levels and guest checkout
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Adds two new per-level settings under Other Settings on the edit level page:
- Standalone Level: one-time purchase, no membership assigned, no cancellations,
  always repurchasable.
- Allow Guest Checkout: lets users check out without creating an account.
  Only available on standalone levels.

Core changes:
- New file includes/standalone-levels.php with all standalone and guest
  checkout logic hooked via filters and actions.
- pmpro_checkout_skip_level_change filter in pmpro_complete_checkout() to
  skip level assignment.
- pmpro_skip_user_creation filter in checkout preheader to skip user
  validation and creation.
- pmpro_checkout_email_user filter to provide a WP_User for guest emails.
- pmpro_checkout_level_name_text filter for the level name paragraph at
  checkout.
- pmpro_checkout_before_account_fields action for the guest checkbox.
- pmpro_allow_viewing_order filter on the invoice preheader for guest
  invoice access.
- pmpro_orders_column_after_user action and pmpro_order_view_after_member_info
  action for guest order admin display.
- Stripe gateway: null-safe fallback to billing data in
  update_customer_at_checkout().
- Email templates: use getMembershipLevelAtCheckout() instead of manual
  user/DB lookups.
- Levels list: use short cost format, always call pmpro_getLevelCost().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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