Members area for paid up members of a society

I have a website for a family history society. The website provides information for members and non-members of the society.

I’d like to put together a members area for existing members of the society to provide documents and information onl viewable to members.

Can I use S2members (free and/or Pro) to put together a registration procedure where the form includes a field so the member can input their membership number; the registration is held for approval and no payment is necessary?

I’d also like to have a renew period so that when membership is due for renewal, membership can be put on hold until the member renews the membership?

Members join in a number of ways; online via an existing form, by post, in person at events, etc so I want to provide an area for members who have already joined the society in one of these ways.

Thanks
Paul

Can I use S2members (free and/or Pro) to put together a registration procedure where the form includes a field so the member can input their membership number; the registration is held for approval and no payment is necessary?

You can use a custom profile field to have him input more info on registration. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

About the approval process, this may help: Knowledge Base » Free user review/approval process

I’d also like to have a renew period so that when membership is due for renewal, membership can be put on hold until the member renews the membership?

If the subscription is created paying through one of the s2Member created buttons/pro-forms, then the EOT behavior you configure would be triggered after the subscription ends. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior[/hilite]

If the payment was done by another mean, you can still manually give the user an EOT time in his profile and the EOT behavior would be applied to his account.

Members join in a number of ways; online via an existing form, by post, in person at events, etc so I want to provide an area for members who have already joined the society in one of these ways.

You can create a custom profile field to enter this info. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

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s2Member Pro is not required for the above, you can try them with the free version.