Free article quota

Hi,

Does S2Member or S2MemberPro provide a way to limit the number of articles/posts a free registered user can read every month?

Thanks,

Hello Eva,

No this is not possible with s2Member, you could if you made it so that each article is a download, you can limit the amount of downloads the user can have in a month.

You can check under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options for more information on download restrictions.

Hope this helps. :)

Hi Eduan,

That does help — thanks for the quick response!

You’re welcome Eva! Glad I was able to help. :)

Ok, I am beginning to really wrap my brain around this. Ok, so let’s extend this question just a bit – I DO have products that are downloads, that I can separate out into individual files.

My extended question – Dual scenario –

The scenario begins with the assumption that we are talking about a paid member. Someone who has paid thru paypal and is now back at the site ready to start downloading the product they just paid membership fees for.

Is there a way to
1. allow those new members access to a page with open downloads, but only restrict them to ONE for that visit and then lock them out of the page?

2. Allow a user a certain number of downloads (say…three) from a certain page then NO MORE?

You should also know that I am going to be setting up one of the ecommerce plugins for the sales process. I would love to be able to pass back info through the API about at least, their membership status (all returning customers from paypal come in at the level 1 status). I know you don’t ‘support’ any of these, but is there one that is better for integration than others?

I would realy like this to be as smooth a process for my users as possible. At present, I can only see how I will be able to do this with two separate sites – 1 member site, and another separate Shopping cart site somehow tied into JvZoo so my affiliates can get their money.

I am SURE it isn’t as complicated as I am making it, but I must ask and ask until I get some definitive answers on how to best pull this off.

Thanks in advance

Hello Akiba,

I checked your requirementes, and I’m afraid this is not possible with the current version of s2Member, you could do it with an advanced setup that you make yourself, or code yourself, but it isn’t possible with vanilla s2Member.

– Eduan