Is S2Member Pro the Right Plugin?

I would like to request any and all input to what I am trying to accomplish using WordPress and if S2Member Pro would be the correct plugin. I’m designing a Resume Writing Service website. Once a customer decides to proceed with our service, they first register, then the Services Provided page is displayed to select the various options in creating their resume. Once the options have been selected, they checkout using PayPal Advantage. Upon completing the payment, the customer is redirected to a Login page where they receive an email with a password and use their email address to login. When they login, this is my issue in selecting the correct plugin.

The customer logs in to what I have been calling a “User Dashboard” where they can finish their user profile, view the services they selected, complete a Job History and Education form, submit tickets as a means for communication and file transferring between admin and customer, as well as change their own password. All this while keeping the user’s personal data, their Dashboard, secure and private from others.

I have a Development team designing what I have described which is scheduled to complete within the next week or two; however, I want to create something similar on a different domain through WordPress so I’m not dependent on the developer for all changes and updates. To view my current site, most importantly the User Dashboard, I have provided the Home Page link and User Dashboard Link with login and password.

Home Page
http://server1.testerzone.com/resumetocareer/

User Dashboard
http://server1.testerzone.com/resumetocareer/login.php
User #1
Email: sweta@testerzone.com
Password: 123456

Administrator Dashboard
http://server1.testerzone.com/resumetocareer/admin/
User Name: admin
Password: admin

Please advise if you believe the S2Member Pro plugin can create the environment I have labeled as User Dashboard. I believe I can create the site to that point but I’m uncertain if this is a Membership Plugin, a Ticketing System, or something else. Any and all help is sincerely appreciated. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Todd McDermaid

Thank you for your inquiry.

The customer logs in to what I have been calling a “User Dashboard” where they can finish their user profile, view the services they selected, complete a Job History and Education form, submit tickets as a means for communication and file transferring between admin and customer, as well as change their own password. All this while keeping the user’s personal data, their Dashboard, secure and private from others.

It sounds like you may be able to use s2Member’s Login Welcome Page in conjunction with some custom code to accomplish this with s2Member.

s2Member is capable of providing this information to a User on the Login Welcome Page, which is one of two Pages that you need to create to use s2Member. This page can be customized however you’d like, and you can use custom code or anything you’d like to make your Login Welcome Page work the way you’d like.

s2Member provides some PHP Constants with information for the User that can be access with the s2Member Shortcode, s2Get, as well as the ability to provide Users with a pre-created form for editing their Profiles with the Profile Modification Pro Forms. Both of these things can be useful for creating a “User Dashboard” as you’d like.

Some things that you’ll need your developers to set up even with s2Member:

• The ability to submit tickets has to be done custom, or with something like a contact form plugin. This plugin is one that I heard good things about and I’ve seen it used alongside s2Member in the past:

  http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

• The “Job History and Education” portion of your Dashboard may or may not be able to be accomplished with s2Member’s Custom Registration Profile Fields, available here:

  Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields

  If you only want basic functionality here, s2Member should be able to handle this. However, if you’re looking for something similar to forms on sites such at elance.com or other freelance sites, where there are fancy checks and JavaScript that makes this section very intuitive, s2Member is not designed to make this possible.

All this while keeping the user’s personal data, their Dashboard, secure and private from others.

s2Member will always protect the Login Welcome Page, and because this Page will change based on which User is accessing it, using the Constants I mentioned earlier, it will be totally secure.

I hope that clears things up a little, let me know if you have any further questions. :-)