3 questions about features

You can base your memberships on custom capabilities (ccaps) instead of levels. This will prevent level 2 members from seeing level 1 content and so on.

So you can have a ccap called “levelA”, one “levelB”, one “levelC” and have a different membership for each, with different fees, and different access.

Check the video linked below this page on Custom Capabilities. You will see how powerful those are. I am running a site with course, workshops, and all that only using ccaps as everyone is on level1 and everyone can see only what they are assigned to see.

Hi Richard,

cassel is correct in recommending Custom Capabilities. All of the s2Member Levels are cumulative, which means higher levels automatically have access to everything granted to lower levels. If you don’t want that to happen, you’ll need to use Custom Capabilities to separate things (in which case you could use just one level + custom capabilities).

For your questions 1 and 2, it depends on whether you really want to use the levels that are cumulative or not. If you do, here would be some possible answers:

1. If I have a $20 fee for membership at Level 1 and later decide I want to introduce a level below this at $10, can I shunt everything up a level to fit in a new level under Level 1?

I dont know of any automatic way to do it, but you can manually change the s2Member Level 1 to s2Member Level 2 for each user. The ccaps and fees would not change as far as i know.

2. Say I have no membership options above level 1 and i have access to Level 1 set at $15… if I later decide to bring in new content and create a new level: level 2 — and i set access to level 2 at $20… as i understand, level 2 members will have access to level 1 and level 2 material… so new members joining at level 2 will pay a total of $20… How much do old level 1 members pay to upgrade to level 2? ($5 i guess it should be, but i want to check they wouldnt get charged $20)

There is a function for modification of current recurring payment under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Modification Buttons so you can offer a “new” membership plan: this new plan can include a new level, new ccap, new fees.

Hi Richard,

cassel is correct again. If you manually change a members’ level from Level 1 to Level 2, their ccaps will carry over, along with whatever subscription they signed up with. Also, for upgrading members, you can generate an upgrade button in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Modification Buttons, or with s2Member Pro you can use the Pro-Forms: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms.