2nd membership at discount but separate?

Hello all, I have a new “Secondary Membership” I’m trying to add on at a discount price and it’s only available in the member’s area since they must be a member first to get the secondary membership.

However, all the primary membership info is attached to the secondary and the secondary member does not get a profile, a username or password, etc. Perhaps I set this up incorrectly…can someone assist?

Here’s what needs to happen:

A Facility membership can be purchased at $150, and if they have several facilities that want to be members, they can add additional facilities using the “Secondary Membership” at a discounted rate of $100. They can only access the Secondary Membership signup via the Member’s Area once they sign up their primary facility. This is causing them to be “linked” though and the facilities are completely different businesses. We want them signed in as members before purchasing a Secondary Membership so someone that’s NOT a member doesn’t stumble across the Secondary Membership form on the site and signup at the discounted rate without first being a member.

Can someone make a recommendation as to how best to do this?

Thank you so much for your time.
Marion

Hi Marion,

Are these secondary memberships recurring subscriptions? If so, those will need to be separate s2Member accounts, as s2Member does not currently support multiple recurring subscriptions on one account.

If these secondary subscriptions don’t need to be recurring, then I recommend you use the Custom Capabilities feature to sell one-time custom capabilities for existing users using the Capability (Buy Now) Forms (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms).

Each custom capability that you sell to a member could then represent a facility underneath that primary facility (e.g., facility1, facility2, facility3, etc.).

Please see the video on Custom Capabilities if you’re not familiar with them: Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

Thank you so much! I will look into that. We’re also having a problem that apparently our membership was set up to Auto Renew and we want to now turn that off. I’m not sure I know where to go to fix that. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks SO much for your prompt reply; I really do appreciate it.

Hi Marion,

If you’re referring to a PayPal recurring subscription (which by design “auto renews” at the subscription interval), you’ll need to cancel the subscription to prevent it from auto renewing. You can cancel this from your PayPal or using an s2Member cancellation form: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Cancellation Forms.

Hi again, I fixed the recurring subscriptions within Paypal thank you.

However, I’m still struggling with understanding what I need to do with the Custom Capabilities to add a Secondary Membership for members. I watched the 3-part video by Jason, but I think I need some help…

Based on my description of what I need above:

A Facility membership can be purchased at $150, and if they have several facilities that want to be members, they can add additional facilities using the “Secondary Membership” at a discounted rate of $100. They can only access the Secondary Membership signup via the Member’s Area once they sign up their primary facility. This is causing them to be “linked” though and the facilities are completely different businesses. We want them signed in as members before purchasing a Secondary Membership so someone that’s NOT a member doesn’t stumble across the Secondary Membership form on the site and signup at the discounted rate without first being a member.

So, to create the above scenario..

Do I now go to S2Member> Paypal Buttons> and generate the following:

$100 / Paypal Buy Now, one-time lifetime access (so they get a year’s membership for $100)

I’m assuming I don’t need Custom Capabilities as they relate to tags or categories, because I’m only putting this one one page…

So then I copy the button code..and here’s where I get lost…where/how do I integrate this?

I currently have a Secondary Signup Page within the Member’s Area with the following code:

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="1" ccaps="" desc="Secondary Membership -- $100.00" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.ibpsa.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="100" rp="1" rt="L" rr="BN" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /]

But this doesn’t create a secondary membership…I need a Facility that has become a member, (but who might have a secondary business who needs its own profile and info in our member directory), to be able to purchase this secondary membership for $100…and then the main facility AND the secondary facility each have a login and can edit their profile, be separate in the Member Directory, etc.

Can anyone assist? I am happy to pay for help; I just need to get this integrated correctly.

Thank you!

Hi Carmen,

I need a Facility that has become a member, (but who might have a secondary business who needs its own profile and info in our member directory), to be able to purchase this secondary membership for $100…and then the main facility AND the secondary facility each have a login and can edit their profile, be separate in the Member Directory, etc.

That is not currently possible with s2Member. You cannot use an s2Member account to create a second s2Member account — you’ll need to have the person logout of the primary account and then signup for the second account.

If the primary reason for having them login to signup for the second account is to prevent non-members from signing up for the secondary account, then I recommend implementing something like displaying a special “access code” to members with existing accounts and then giving them instructions for creating the second account.

Those instructions would include logging out, accessing a special URL that asks for the access code, and then, upon entering the correct access code, they would be redirected to a page where you can display another signup form for the discounted secondary membership amount.

As per our support policy (see s2Member® » Support Policy » Outside Scope), we are unable to assist with coding custom features like this, so we recommend posting the job at jobs.wordpress.net.

Thank you so much..I will give this a try. The only problem I see is the member providing the password to other people and they could access the secondary membership and sign up at the discounted price. Is there ANY way to connect the secondary membership with their primary membership. Could a custom field be added to the Secondary Membership signup form that asks what their primary membership is, so we can monitor these signups?

You can certainly have the secondary membership signup form add a Custom Capability to those secondary accounts, that way you as the administrator and differentiate between primary and secondary accounts.

As for the problem with people giving out the password, the only solution I can think of is to create authentication codes that can only be used one time. If the code has already been used to access the signup form, present a message saying that it has expired. Then you can offer each Primary Member a fixed number of codes (e.g., 5 access codes) and then require them to contact you if they need more.