membership levels

Hello, I would like to use s2member for our protected pages on our website. However, before purchasing, I need to know if I am allowed to create two free membership levels, each with access to its own content. One level “x” has access to certain pages, while the other level “Y” should only have access to another set of pages. Neither level should have access to each other’s info. Is this possible? If so, how does one do this? Right now we are not requiring them to pay for anything but in the future we might. I have downloaded the free version but don’t want to purchase the pro version if this cannot be done. Thank you.

Hello Kerry.

Yes, you can do that with the free registration pro-forms and custom capabilities.

Custom capabilities will let you manage the access to the content separately, instead of incrementally as Levels do. Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

The free registration pro-form in s2Member Pro, will let you register users for free, with a certain level and custom capability added to his account. Knowledge Base » Offering Paid Member Registration for Free, Using Pro-Forms

In the future, if you choose to start charging, you can just change the free registration pro-form for one of the payment ones.

I hope that helps. :)

Thank you for your feedback, but I am still having lots of trouble. Maybe I just don’t understand. I have two groups that have access to two different sets of pages. They do not pay for access. So, do I need to get pro forms? Because when I try to do membership levels they only do things incrementally and I can’t seem to block one membership level from seeing the others content.

And, where is the login to access the hidden content? So far none of the tutorials are showing me how to set up a “level or role for a member that gets only certain content that no one else can see.” I do not want to have to use any paypal buttons for free members, that doesn’t make sense but when I go into membership levels they are all ….maybe this membership service is not for me. Any help, code, anything would be helpful. Thank you.”

Hi Kerry.

s2Member doesn’t have different logins depending on the access. The user has a single account, and that account with have certain access he either purchased or got free. Some accounts can have access to certain content, while others not. The content is restricted with levels or custom capabilities, and only if the user has that level or custom capability in his account, will he be allowed to see the restricted content.

Levels give incremental access, that’s why they don’t work for you in this case, since Level 2 would also have access to content for Level 1. Which is why I recommended that you use custom capabilities (ccaps), these don’t give incremental access. You can have a user with ccap1 and another user with ccap2 and neither one will have access to content that requires the ccap he doesn’t have. So you can protect one set of content with ccap package1 and the other set of content with ccap package2.

Have you watched the video I linked to earlier?

These ccaps are normally sold, but can also be given for free. In s2Member you can only give the ccaps for free manually, but in s2Member Pro you have the free registration pro-forms, which let you specify what level or ccaps the user gets on registration.

I hope that helps. :)