PPV Setup?

Hi,

I am working with a client of mine to setup a PPV type of website on WordPress and we are considering using your software.

Here is what we would like to have happen.

1 – Potential customer visits our site, browses around, and comes to a page with some content on it that is protected. They can see the page itself, but the area with the video and some other content is blocked.

2 – The potential customer clicks a “Buy Now” button and get’s sent to PayPal to submit their one time payment for the content.

3 – After payment an account is automatically and instantly created for the customer. The account information is emailed to the customer and they are also redirected from PayPal back to a page that contains this information and a link to login.

4 – After the customer is logged in they are taken to their own membership page and shown a link to the page containing the content they just purchased. When they click the link the page loads and the content that was blocked before is now visible to them.

5 – All future purchases this customer makes are added to their membership page with links.

6 – All purchases the customer has made remain available to them to access that content forever and/or for a specific length of time.

Question 1 – Can your software accomplish this? If not what is the absolute closest configuration your software is capable of?

Question 2 – What happens if the customer goes to purchase additional content but is not logged in? Will they see a checkout page telling them to “login if you already have an account”? Will your system see that they are trying to join with the same email address and tell them they already have an account?

Please advise.

Thank You,
Justin Schneiderman
Smart Marketing Help

Hi Justin.

Yes, you can do something quite close to that with s2Member.

You can protect part of the page using conditionals. Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

Paying over at PayPal won’t register them automatically. After returning from PayPal they’d have to register. You can automate the login after registration, though. Knowledge Base » Auto-Login Upon Registration

You could use the s2Member pro-forms instead of the PayPal buttons. To use the pro-forms you don’t need PayPal Pro, the free Express Checkout would be enough. The pro-form can register the user and forward him to PayPal to pay. Knowledge Base » s2Member® Pro Forms

You can use the Login Welcome page to list the links to content they purchased. There isn’t a function to list all content the user has access to, but you could have conditionals checking if he has access to each of your pages, and display the link if he does. Knowledge Base » Customizing Your Login Welcome Page

You can sell custom capabilities for each of the videos. This explains custom capabilities well: Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

For the new access to be added to the existing account the user needs to be logged in to his account. If he purchases a custom capability while logged out, then it’d go towards a new account. If he tries to register using the same email address, then WordPress won’t let him because it’s already in use by the previous account.

I hope that helps. :)