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Posted: Friday Aug 17th, 2012 at 11:50 pm #22411
Todd
Username: toddz88

Hi, I used s2Member once in the past for a typical membership site, and was very impressed. But now I am building a site for a heating-service company that just wants to enable its customers to pay on their website. It’s not really about “membership” or selling / protecting any content, but I know s2Member has very good Subscription / Recurring Payments capabilities. So I’m trying to determine if s2Member Pro can accomodate our requirements — using Authorize.net as the payment gateway:

1) Allow the user to purchase a fixed-price product (an annual service contract), paid in full, upfront. A public user (anyone not logged into the site) would use an s2m-pro form to make a one-time payment, which would NOT have anything to do with membership, registration, or user-accounts at all … just process a single payment through Authorize.net.

2) Allow the user to pay an invoice for work already done, for a specific amount. So basically like #1 above, but the user can specifiy the amount himself, and also enter an “invoice number”, as a pass-through custom field value that would be tied to the payment.

3a) Allow a user to purchase the annual service contract (from #1 above), but instead of paying in full upfront, he pays in 12 monthly installments – essentially a subscription to a recurring payment plan that charges the credit card (held in Authorize.net ARB) 12 times, once per month, and then it ends. This user DOES need a User Account created in WordPress, so he can login to modify his billing information, if necessary. But it’s not about “membership” or access to any restricted content, other than his own account page (to modify his billing info, and to edit his own user-profile fields and password).

3b) After the user’s first 12-month subscription expires, he may want to buy another annual service contract. But the price might be different now, so we may not want him to just “renew” or “reactivate” the original subscription, if that’s even possible. Instead, it’d be safer for him to just start a new subscription (for another 12 months), at the current price. But this time, he does NOT need to register a new user-account in the site, since he already has one (and the email address he’d try to enter would not be available anymore). Or, if it’s easier to keep 3a and 3b the same, we could probably just require the User to register in the site first, before making his initial purchase of the subscription product.. to entirely and always separate registration from the subscription purchase.

Thanks in advance.
-Todd

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Posted: Sunday Aug 19th, 2012 at 7:32 am #22481

Hi Todd.

Sure, you could use the Authorize.Net pro-form to sell these, even if you’re not protecting content and selling that. You could sell Specific Post/Page access, which doesn’t require a registration, but the registration being just a couple more fields in the pro-form, it may be better to just register them at Level 1.

o basically like #1 above, but the user can specifiy the amount himself, and also enter an “invoice number”, as a pass-through custom field value that would be tied to the payment.

The invoice number could be a custom profile field in the registration form. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

But the pro-form doesn’t allow the user to input the amount to pay. Maybe you can customize it to do that, though. This article may help: Pre Sale FAQs » Is it possible to modify s2Member® Pro Form templates?

he pays in 12 monthly installments – essentially a subscription to a recurring payment plan that charges the credit card (held in Authorize.net ARB) 12 times, once per month, and then it ends.

You can use the [hilite mono]rrt[/hilite] attribute (recurring times) set to 12 for this. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes -> rrt[/hilite]

But this time, he does NOT need to register a new user-account in the site, since he already has one

Sure. Just make sure the user is logged in to his account when he tries to pay again.


I hope that helps. :)

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