Different Subs Costs depending on Month

Hi All,

Hope someone can help with this!

Our client offers multiple levels of membership and depending when you join, depends on the costs you pay. The club runs renewal from april to april. So if you joined at the start you’d pay 12 months, yet if you join in the last part of the club year, you may only need to pay for 2 or 3 months.

On top of this, the member can also select from the membership level.

What the client wants, is depending which month you’re in, the right payment term to be predefined, then the only thing the member needs to worry about is which membership level they require.

Is there anyway that the plugin can already cater for this or is there some simple code logic that can be used? Am not a coder by trade so any help is much appreciated!

Thanks in advanced

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry about the delay.

First off, the way that you’d begin working on this is to check out the article on Variables in a Shortcode:

Knowledge Base » Using Variables In A Shortcode

You’ll need to check the current date for the month. This PHP function can help you do that:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

To get a numeric representation of the month, you’d use this: date('n'). Knowing this, you can start using conditionals to change the price of your Pro Form dynamically. Here’s a really simple example that will make the price of membership $10 in January, and $12 any other time:

<?php
$price = 12.00;
if(date('n') === '1')
	$price = 10.00;
?>

[s2Member-Paypal-Button.... ra="<?php echo $price; ?>" ...]

Hello Simon,

So if I understood correctly you want the button to change automatically depending on the date?

So it’s renewals on April and a normal payment button the rest of the year?

– Eduan

Hi Guys,

Many thanks for the replies.

Basically, a member needs to select the membership type they require. Then, depending which month of the financial year we’re in, will depend on how much they pay.
So, for example:
April (Full year)
Level 1 – £79
Level 2 – £151
Level 3 – £208

In July however,
Level 1 – £59
Level 2 – £113
Level 3 – £156

In Nov it may be,
Level 1 – £32
Level 2 – £63
Level 3 – £86

It really does depend which month they join as to which cost they’re charged. Hopefully, this makes sense?

Thanks again

I think Bruce’s solution may work!

Do you still need the PHP Execution plugin as it’s now no longer supported?
Thanks

You need a PHP execution plugin for PHP to work in a WP post/page, yes. It doesn’t have to be one particular plugin, there are several that do it. Search the WP plugins repository and try a few. Most of them will require that you use only the text editor and not open the post in the visual editor, since the latter will break the code.