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A Members Area lets your customers log in with their purchase email and access their orders, digital downloads, bonuses, and account information — no password required.

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How It Works

ElasticFunnels uses an email-based login system tied to purchase records. There are two ways a customer gets access:
  1. Automatic login after purchase — When a customer completes checkout, their session is immediately authenticated. They can navigate to any members-only page without additional login.
  2. Email-based login — Returning customers enter their purchase email on a login page. The system looks up their orders and grants access if a match is found.

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Key Components

A members area typically has three pages:
PagePurposeLogin required?
Members LoginEmail form where returning customers identify themselvesNo
Members DashboardMain content area with products, bonuses, order historyYes
Thank YouPost-purchase confirmation with order details and members area linkNo (auto-authenticated)

Members Login

Set up the email-based login form and configure redirects

Showing Order Details

Display order history, products, tracking, and shipping info

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Auto-Login After Purchase

When a customer completes a purchase through ElasticFunnels checkout, the system automatically:
  1. Sets is_customer = true on their session
  2. Stores their email, name, billing/shipping addresses, and order IDs in the session
  3. Marks them as an authenticated customer
This means thank-you pages and members pages work immediately after checkout — the customer never needs to enter their email again during that browser session. The session stores the following customer data automatically:
FieldDescription
customer.nameFull name from checkout
customer.emailEmail address
customer.first_nameFirst name
customer.last_nameLast name
customer.phonePhone number (if collected)
customer.order_idMost recent order ID
customer.order_idsAll order IDs for this customer
customer.billing_*Billing address fields
customer.shipping_*Shipping address fields

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Protecting Pages with Login

There are two ways to restrict a page to logged-in customers only.

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Option 1: Page setting (recommended)

  1. Open the page settings in the editor
  2. Enable Requires Login
  3. Set the Redirect URL to your login page (e.g., /members-login)
When a visitor without a valid session tries to access the page they are automatically redirected to that URL. If no redirect is configured, a 404 page is shown.

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Option 2: Backend scope script

Add a <script scope="backend"> block at the top of the page. This gives you more control — for example, redirecting to different pages based on the customer’s order history or preserving a ?next= query parameter. 
<script scope="backend">
  if (!is_customer) {
    redirect('/members-login');
  }
</script>
You can pass the current path as a query parameter so the login page can redirect back after a successful login: 
<script scope="backend">
  if (!is_customer) {
    redirect('/members-login?next=' + encodeURIComponent(request.path));
  }
</script>
is_customer is true when the visitor has an active session from a purchase or from the email login form. See Request Context for all available globals and Actions for the full redirect() reference. When a customer has a valid session (either from a purchase or from the login form), the script does nothing and the page renders normally. When your members area has more than one page — dashboard, order history, bonuses, course access, account settings — the recommended approach is an auth wrapper: a shared layout or script block that handles the authentication check and loads common data in one place. Every members page extends or includes the wrapper, so you never repeat the login redirect logic.

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For .ef template files — @extends

Create a members-layout.ef that handles auth and prefetches common data: 
{{-- members-layout.ef --}}
<script scope="backend">
  if (!is_customer) {
    redirect('/members-login');
  }
  var orders = getOrders('newest', 20);
  setVariable('orders', orders);
</script>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  <title>@block("title") Members Area @endblock</title>
</head>
<body>
  <header>
    <span>Welcome, {{ customer.first_name | default:"Member" }}</span>
    <nav>
      <a href="/members">Dashboard</a>
      <a href="/members/orders">Orders</a>
      <a href="/members/bonuses">Bonuses</a>
    </nav>
  </header>
  @block("content") @endblock
</body>
</html>
Every members page extends it — no auth logic needed per page: 
{{-- members-dashboard.ef --}}
@extends("members-layout")
@block("title") Dashboard @endblock
@block("content")
<h1>Your Orders</h1>
@foreach(order in orders)
  <p>#{{ order.order_number }} — {{ order.created_at | date:'dd MMM yyyy' }}</p>
@endforeach
@endblock

{{-- members-bonuses.ef --}}
@extends("members-layout")
@block("title") Bonuses @endblock
@block("content")
<h1>Your Bonuses</h1>
<order sort-by="newest" limit="5">
  <order-bonus-product>
    <p>{{ bonus_product_name }}</p>
    <a href="{{ bonus_download }}">Download</a>
  </order-bonus-product>
</order>
@endblock

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For page builder pages — shared script block

Paste the same backend script at the top of every protected page. Because it always does the same work, any change only needs to happen in one shared spot (consider using a page component for the header/nav): 
<script scope="backend">
  if (!is_customer) {
    redirect('/members-login');
  }
  var orders = getOrders('newest', 20);
  setVariable('orders', orders);
</script>

<h1>Welcome, {{ customer.first_name | default:"Member" }}</h1>
Load only what each page needs. The dashboard might call getOrders('newest', 5), while the full order-history page calls getOrders('newest', 100). The wrapper sets a sensible default; individual pages can override orders by calling setVariable again after the wrapper runs.

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Template Variables

Inside members-only pages, you can use the customer object to personalize content: 
<h1>Welcome, {{ customer.first_name|default:"Member" }}!</h1>
<p>Your account email: {{ customer.email }}</p>
<p>Order ID: {{ customer.order_id }}</p>
See Showing Order Details for how to display full order history with products and tracking.