Complex requirements, not sure this will work

We have an existing membership site and are looking to increase it’s functionality as well as reduce our administration. Not sure if even the Pro version will do what we need.

Can you please review this list and let me know if s2Member will work for us?

1. import existing paid members
2. allow us to modify the expiration dates based on some manual payment
3. send notification to members when their membership is close to expiration to encourage them to renew
4. have different levels of membership by post category, where some members get access to only some content, while other members get access to all content, and manage that by category
5. set category protection as required above, for almost 3 years worth of existing posts
6. use paypal standard as our purchase mechanism
7. offer membership by quarter or by year
8. send autoresponders to different membership levels, based on what category the new content is posted into

I may be missing something, but those are the challenges I am coming up against right now. There are just to many variables to check out all the various on-line documents.

Please let me know if s2Member will work for us, at any level. Pro vs. free is not an issue.

Thank you so much,
Michele

Hi Michele,

You should be able to do all that you’re looking to do with s2Member.

import existing paid members

s2Member uses the WordPress Roles and Capability functionality, as WordPress does itself. Assuming that you’re using this system on your site currently, you should be able to move your users over easily.

allow us to modify the expiration dates based on some manual payment

EOT (End of Term) date can be set up within your Users List with s2Member.

send notification to members when their membership is close to expiration to encourage them to renew

While not natively supported, there’s info on this here: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/setting-up-eot-notifications/

have different levels of membership by post category, where some members get access to only some content, while other members get access to all content, and manage that by category
set category protection as required above, for almost 3 years worth of existing posts

You can set this up under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Category Access Restrictions, extremely easily. I’d recommend using Custom Capabilities (Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities))

offer membership by quarter or by year

Simply make 2 buttons/Pro Forms for this. But make sure they’re not on the same page (this will cause errors).

send autoresponders to different membership levels, based on what category the new content is posted into

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