Forum levels and payment api/hooks

Hi

I’m currently building a membership site and need to decide on a good membership plugin. I have compared your membership plugin with a couple of others.

Before I decide I need to know the following:
1. I noticed that you seem to have an extensive api with hooks. Would it be reasonable easy to implement a new payment supplier to use instead of paypal. I need to connect to a swedish payment supplier (for invoices). I need to send an invoice when the user changes membership level.

2. Can I setup a forum with different access levels? I need members with level 1 to see some subjects and level 2 members to see even more subjects. I saw your video wher you integrate to bbpress. Can I use that somehow?

3. Is there a way to integrate event bookings to s2member? Members should be able to book events and also have invoices sent to them when booking (custom api).

I am currently on a short deadline (aren’t we always…) and would be really happy if you could send me a quick reply.

Thanks!

Best Regards
Tobias Dahlberg

Megakoll AB
tobias@megakoll.se

Hi Tobias.

1. I noticed that you seem to have an extensive api with hooks. Would it be reasonable easy to implement a new payment supplier to use instead of paypal. I need to connect to a swedish payment supplier (for invoices). I need to send an invoice when the user changes membership level.

You could use the PayPal IPN with proxy key to integrate a new payment gateway. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® IPN Integration -> Proxy Key[/hilite]

If you have PayPal Pro, you can also look at how the other payment gateways were integrated and use it as a start point for your own integration.

2. Can I setup a forum with different access levels? I need members with level 1 to see some subjects and level 2 members to see even more subjects. I saw your video wher you integrate to bbpress. Can I use that somehow?

As you saw, s2Member integrates to a certain extent with bbPress. This is in the free version of s2Member and you can explore how it works.

If you want another forum script, s2Member’s URI restriction will be able to help you as long as the forum is served by WordPress, but not if it’s a separate script. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions[/hilite]

3. Is there a way to integrate event bookings to s2member? Members should be able to book events and also have invoices sent to them when booking (custom api).

No, s2Member doesn’t do event booking management. I know there are other plugins that do this, though.

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I hope that helps. :)