Multiple offerings for one profile

I am thinking of s2member but would like to know if my business model will be supported, if so how? I’ve watched the videos and didn’t see anything related to users having multiple different access based on services they purchased.

Here’s what I have in mind:
1. My website will have 4 different categories (category 1, 2, 3, 4). Each category will be broken down to 3 different prices (price 1, 2, 3) which is based on durations (1 month, 3 months, 6 months)
2. User 1 signs up to have access to category 1 for Price 1 (1 month)
3. After 1 week he decided to sign-up to category 3 for Price 3 (6 months).
4. So now with this he will supposedly have access to contents of category 1 and 3 (1 month and 6 months respectively).

Question:
1. Will I be able to limit 1 user access to categories they have signed up for?
2. Payment can be processed to charge the user for each category they purchase (in my example – 2 categories)?
3. When subscription expires for category 1 (after 3 months), the user will continue to have access on category 3 (for the remaining months of his subscription)?
4. If not, what is the best way to accomplish this with s2member?

I really like the features of s2member and hope that this can be accomplished.

Thanks,
Geoffrey

Hi,
Not sure if my first post was clear but just in case let me clarify.

Is it possible for a subscriber to sign up to multiple subscriptions using PayPal? Each subscription will provide them different access to content they subscribed on.

Each subscriptions are also broken down to 3 tiers (1 month, 3 months, 6 months). Is it possible for them to sign up to subscription 1 with 1 month and later purchase subscription 2 with 3 months? Meaning the subscriber will have 2 or 3 or 4 subscriptions available for them.

Hope this will work because I really like the features of s2member compared to the other membership plug in.

Please let me know if I need to clarify still.

Thanks,
Geoffrey

Hi,
Really need to know if this is possible or not before I move on to purchase the Pro. Please let me know if I need to clarify the question?

Thanks

1. Will I be able to limit 1 user access to categories they have signed up for?
2. Payment can be processed to charge the user for each category they purchase (in my example – 2 categories)?
3. When subscription expires for category 1 (after 3 months), the user will continue to have access on category 3 (for the remaining months of his subscription)?
4. If not, what is the best way to accomplish this with s2member?

The best way to accomplish what you’re looking to do would be to use s2Member’s Custom Capabilities to protect Posts within a certain Category. s2Member does not yet allow you to protect whole categories or URIs with Custom Capabilities (this is something we’re working on for the next release of s2Member), so you’ll have to protect Posts on a one post basis.

Custom Capabilities are specific capabilities you can sell to Users and protect content with. You can sell Custom Capabilities with regular membership levels, or in packages with Capability Buy Now buttons/Pro Forms.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities
See Also: Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)
See Also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms

Thanks for the reply Bruce.

I just have a follow up question to your reply and some clarification:
1. The custom capabilities you mentioned will only work on Post and not Pages? If so, this is fine so I have a better plan to start with.
2. Members can sign up to multiple recurring subscriptions? What are the requirements on this? Does user have to be logged in before making a purchase? PayPal won’t overwrite duration do their previous membership? Basically, S2member knows that 1 user have 2 different durations available that it can manage?
3. I plan to use Paypal pro, so all this will still work without the user leaving my site?
4. You mentioned Buy now capability, but can this also work with recurring subscription?

Thanks again,
Geoffrey

Thanks for the follow-up.

1. The custom capabilities you mentioned will only work on Post and not Pages? If so, this is fine so I have a better plan to start with.

You can use Custom Capabilities to protect Posts, Pages, and specific parts of content with Condtionals. They do not, however, allow you to restrict Categories, Tags, or URIs like you can with levels.

2. Members can sign up to multiple recurring subscriptions? What are the requirements on this? Does user have to be logged in before making a purchase? PayPal won’t overwrite duration do their previous membership? Basically, S2member knows that 1 user have 2 different durations available that it can manage?

s2Member will never allow a User to have multiple recurring subscriptions. You can add Custom Capabilities to a User’s plan with Buy-Now buttons, or have them upgrade their subscription to include Custom Capabilities, but you can’t have multiple subscriptions at the same time.

3. I plan to use Paypal pro, so all this will still work without the user leaving my site?

Yes, s2Member will allow you to use Custom Capabilities with PayPal Pro Forms.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms

4. You mentioned Buy now capability, but can this also work with recurring subscription?

You can add Custom Capabilities to a User’s current subscription the same way you would upgrade them to a new Membership Level.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms