Compatible with WP-United?

My club uses phpbb and right now we have 3 (count ’em) THREE separate logins…one to wordpress, one to membership, and one to forums.

We are looking to upgrade our phpbb (which club members really like so we won’t be going to a wordpress based forum) so that we can use WP-United, which will allow us to have a single sign-on and the forums will be incorporated into our WP website, rather than a different look as they are now.

The only thing left is to be able to have members pay club dues online and have access to different parts of the website and special members only forums and of course let people sign up for basic WP and forum access.

So question is will s2member let us grant forum rights based on subscription? Or will I need to look for a phpbb based paid member mod?

If we use s2member, can we manually upgrade members? IE, some members may want to pay by check, so they can sign up for a pay by check tier, which will grant them limited priviledges, and when check is received, admin can go in and upgrade their membership tier to a paid one?

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So question is will s2member let us grant forum rights based on subscription? Or will I need to look for a phpbb based paid member mod?

Yes, you would need some custom code integrated with phpBB for this to work the way you’ve explained. s2Member protects WordPress content, not phpBB content. So you would need some custom code to bridge the gap in some way that works for your site.

If we use s2member, can we manually upgrade members? IE, some members may want to pay by check, so they can sign up for a pay by check tier, which will grant them limited priviledges, and when check is received, admin can go in and upgrade their membership tier to a paid one?

Yes, you can certainly upgrade members manually from the Dashboard, by editing a User account and changing the Role they have in WordPress. Or by giving them Custom Capabilities within WordPress. We have many site owners that do this in response to offline payments and virtual terminal transactions.