Allow members to define pricing?

I am hoping to use this plugin primarily for managing and maintaining membership payments and subscriptions. I will not really be protecting any content.

We operate a gym facility that has variable pricing options that are not at set increments. Is there a way to have people set their own pricing?

For example, a standard pricing option would be $105/mth. But, depending on the amount of family, there is discounts for additional members.

But, for some people, because of financial constraints, we have worked out special pricing for them that would not be a “standard” option. So, what would be nice if there was an option for them to enter an agreed upon price for their recurring subscription.

Is this possible? And, if so, what PayPal level would be required?

Thank you for your inquiry.

s2Member allows you to create multiple payment plans for the same membership level. As far as how you allow your Users to select the plan they want, this depends on how you want to set this up, and how much work you’re willing to put into making different plan types. I’m not totally sure I understand what you’re looking for here, could you give an example as to the differences in plans?

Ok. So, our plans would be

Standard: $105/mth
Military/Police/Fire: $80/mth

Each additional member would be half price. So, first member would be $105/mth. Spouse would be $50/mth.

Those would be standard on the site. But, then we have situations where people just cannot afford to pay that much and we may have verbally worked out an agreement that would be less than that. Say, $50/mth for a student. Or, maybe there is a family of 5 that we work out a special price of $150/mth for everyone.

This wouldn’t be an option that they would be able to “click” on. So, what I would like to see is that there could be an option that says “Please enter mutually agreed upon amount” during their signup and they could enter the amount that we agreed upon instead of clicking a button with a pre-defined amount.

The other option is if I could create their regular account within the backend of WordPress. Is there a way that I could pre-create their account and specify the price specific to their account? Once created, they would receive an email with their username and password telling them to log into the site and make a payment. Then, when they log in, they would be prompted to make a payment based on the amount that I specified during their account creation. Maybe set as a variable tied to their account?

This would allow for variable pricing on a per-user basis rather then having the users have to click a static amount.

Thanks for the info.

This wouldn’t be an option that they would be able to “click” on. So, what I would like to see is that there could be an option that says “Please enter mutually agreed upon amount” during their signup and they could enter the amount that we agreed upon instead of clicking a button with a pre-defined amount.

If you’re using PayPal Buttons, this is simpler. You can use the information provided here to allow Users to specify the amount they’d like to pay for access. This is a very old forum post but it will still work here:

http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16566&p=59040#p59040

As for creating different plans, such as you lined out here:

Standard: $105/mth
Military/Police/Fire: $80/mth

Each additional member would be half price. So, first member would be $105/mth. Spouse would be $50/mth.

Because there are so many possibilities you will need to have an external method of changing your price based on what the User wants. A developer could set up a system to handle this using the information provided here:

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