Per-member content/portal & license transfer

Hello,

I’m planning to purchase and use S2 Member Pro for a client site I’m developing. Before I can do that, I need answers to the following capabilities questions:

Please reply by answering each of the following in kind. I hope that your response will tell me what I need to purchase S2 Member immediately:

1. Can I embed custom forms for multiple products (processing through PayPal Pro) on the same page of my site?

2. Can subscription-based sign up forms pass/collect custom information/answers to product options questions? The end result should at the very least pass all order info, with selected options, to a specified email (that email MUST include the PayPal order number, in order to tie the selected options to the correct customer and order for later fulfillment). I would highly prefer that the selected options at sign up would be stored specific to that customer/member within S2 Member after signup. That would allow my client to refer to the information at any time.

3. Is it possible to give new members a personalized portal that would include information they selected at signup, current subscriptions (PayPal), options/content specific to the chosen product subscription, etc?

4. Similar to number 3 above, is it possible to gave custom options/content within the personalized member portal? Those options would need to change, based on what products have been subscribed to and what options were chosen at signup.

5. In connection to both 3 and 4 above, would it be possible for members to purchase/subscribe for additional products at a later date and have the content/options in their personal member portal update appropriately?

6. Finally, my developer is creating the site on a sub domain right now (ami.susankledzik.com). I need to be able to implement Pro version of the plugin on that sub domain and then transfer the license to the actual domain upon site completion and launch (with all plugin options preserved during transfer).

Please answer each question above so that I may proceed.

Thanks,

Austin Szelkowski

Hi Austin.

1. Can I embed custom forms for multiple products (processing through PayPal Pro) on the same page of my site?

No. For now, you can’t have multiple pro-forms in the same page, they need their own each. You can have in a single page the links to the separate pages for the pro-forms, though.

2. Can subscription-based sign up forms pass/collect custom information/answers to product options questions? The end result should at the very least pass all order info, with selected options, to a specified email (that email MUST include the PayPal order number, in order to tie the selected options to the correct customer and order for later fulfillment). I would highly prefer that the selected options at sign up would be stored specific to that customer/member within S2 Member after signup. That would allow my client to refer to the information at any time.

Well, you could try using the custom profile fields to do this. They’d be shown in the registration forms. You can test these in the free version of s2Member. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

There are two emails sents on a paid registration: One is the Signup Confirmation email, sent after successful checkout; the other is the New User email, sent on registration. You can also check these out in the free version.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Signup Confirmation Email[/hilite]
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Email Configuration -> New User[/hilite]

3. Is it possible to give new members a personalized portal that would include information they selected at signup, current subscriptions (PayPal), options/content specific to the chosen product subscription, etc?

You can customize a page for the user’s info, using variables, which would show different values depending on the user. s2Member provides some constants you can try for this, some available via shortcodes, others only via PHP. They are in the free version, if you want to take a look. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› PHP/API Constants[/hilite]

4. Similar to number 3 above, is it possible to gave custom options/content within the personalized member portal? Those options would need to change, based on what products have been subscribed to and what options were chosen at signup.

You can use PHP in your page, if you have a PHP execution plugin installed, and do pretty custom things in your page.

You mention “what products have been subscribed to”. When you say subscriptions, you mean recurring payments, right? And you say products, as in many, not just one. In that case, I should clarify that multiple subscriptions per user are not supported yet, although it’ll be possible in the future.

5. In connection to both 3 and 4 above, would it be possible for members to purchase/subscribe for additional products at a later date and have the content/options in their personal member portal update appropriately?

You could do that with some PHP, getting info on the user to customize the page based on it.

6. Finally, my developer is creating the site on a sub domain right now (ami.susankledzik.com). I need to be able to implement Pro version of the plugin on that sub domain and then transfer the license to the actual domain upon site completion and launch (with all plugin options preserved during transfer).

The license won’t be a problem if you migrate your site to another address.

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I hope that helps. :)