Multiple purchase with CCBill

In addition to free and paid memberships, we also want to sell some other paid content and features. The payment gateway is likely to be CCBill (which I know S2Pro support)

One example is that we might sell a $20, $50 and $100 “ticket”. Once purchased, this would allow the user to access a calendar/form which will allow the user to register for a webcast/special event by choosing an available slot.

I know we could achieve this by protecting the registration page and selling a custom capability to allow access to this page. However, what if the user wished to purchase a second ticket and register for another event? How would we achieve this and also stop the original purchase being used to register for more than once webcast event? i.e. can we set things up to allow custom cababilities to be purchased more than once? Alternatively, is there an easy programatic way of generating psudo-custom capabilities using GUIDs perhaps?

Ideally, we would prefer not to use a separate eCommerce solution, but may add one in at a later date. The second question is therefore, is there any documentation/examples on how to integrate S2Member with a WordPress ecommerce cart so that when a product is bought from the eCommerce cart then for example capabilities can be added.

Many thanks,

Ken

Hi Ken,

You can sell individual Capabilities using the ccBill Capability (Buy Now) Buttons (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Buttons -› Capability (Buy Now) Buttons) available with s2Member Pro; click the screenshot below for more details:

However, it sounds like a key piece for you is going to be the scheduling and calendar software. Since that functionality isn’t provided by s2Member, you’ll need to integrate s2Member with a 3rd-party plugin that provides that functionality to make that happen. It will be up to the plugin to determine how to limit people from scheduling multiple times, etc.

Regarding ecommerce plugins: We do not currently have any documentation for integrating with any specific ecommerce solutions, however there are many hooks/filters available for interfacing with the inner workings of s2Member. A programmer familiar with the ecommerce software would need to make the necessary integrations.