limiting membership

Currently I have two levels of membership on my site. level 0 and level 1.

Level 0 members can only read a certain amount of articles.
Level 1 members can read all articles and write content themselves.

What I would like to do is restrict the level 0 membership to a few months, meaning that the EOT would be filled automagically when somebody subscribes as a level 0 member.

Is that possible and if so, how do I achieve that?

You can either sell a buy-now, which won’t be recurring and sets the EOT immediately, or sell a subscription with a set number of payments, after which it’ll end and set the EOT. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes -> rrt[/hilite]

level 0 is NOT a buy now (that is another issue I work on) and it is a free subscription so adding PayPal is useless.
All I want is to create a time-limited level 0 subscription.

BL

OK, still waiting for an answer. How can I limit the time somebody has a level 0 subscription… automagically…

There aren’t level 0 subscriptions. Level 0 is the free level. Subscriptions are sold for level 1 or higher.

When a subscription ends, the EOT demotion would bring his level down to 0. If the user is already at 0, what would the demotion be? [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior[/hilite]

I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to do.

Do you mean to have a free level for a certain time and then remove that free access? If so, you could use the free registration pro-form to give Level 1 for free, and the demotion would bring him down to 0, where you’d have less content.

As soon as people follow this link they can subscribe and are assigned a level 0 access.
I can create pages and posts that are accessible from level 0 and higher OR add no restriction at all. making all info accessible for whoever comes to the site…

So there IS indeed a level 0 subscription and I want to limit that to a certain amount of time.

Once more the question, how do I do that.

Normally subscriptions are the recurring payment profiles created with the payment gateway. I guess that’s why I was misunderstanding you.

You can set the EOT using the [hilite mono]tp[/hilite] and [hilite mono]tt[/hilite] attributes in the free registration pro-form. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)[/hilite]

And how do you want to end this level 0 access? Demotion won’t work because the user would already be at Level 0. Deleting the account? If so, change the EOT behavior to remove instead of demote. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior[/hilite]

Ah yes, now I see the idea behind it. OK, so level 0 can not be demoted. Just wondering then if there is a possibility to make all posts and pages be for level 0 as a standard and only change that to either a higher level of no level at all. That wwould be a real time saver.

You can protect all posts and pages at level 0, adding [hilite mono]all[/hilite] to the level 0 field in the Page and Post access restrictions.

[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Post Access Restrictions[/hilite]
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Page Access Restrictions[/hilite]

Then you can add the ID of particular posts or pages to a higher level too. I’m afraid that when using [hilite mono]all[/hilite] there isn’t a way to unprotect a particular one yet, though.

Just tested, tp and tt do the magic. Thanks for the tip.
For my understanding Christian, the following:
Do I understand correct that level 1 can be demoted to level 0 (so the data remains in the database)?
Is it also possible to demote a level 2 to level 1 with a limitation as it is now for that level, and then demote them to level 0 when that eot expires?
I now have some subscribers who paid me differently than by PayPal. They do not have a recurring payment (yet).
So I need to mae some sort of mechanism for that.

You can only have one demotion role in s2Member, which by default is 0, but can be changed to another one. Knowledge Base » Forcing A Specific Demotion Role

If you need different demotions depending on the user’s current level, you’ll have to create a customization to achieve it. This may help: Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

I now have some subscribers who paid me differently than by PayPal. They do not have a recurring payment (yet).

You can enter an EOT time manually in the user’s profile. Just remember that if you do this to a user that has a subscription in PayPal, then the time you enter manually is the one that’ll be used and won’t be updated by changes in the subscription (e.g. new payments).