Pre-Sales Question – Pro, free or neither?

Hello,

I have a client who has an older business site done with another CMS product (not WordPress) and we are interested in using WordPress for an update but they need to have registered users in various levels. None of these are paid users.

Each level has access to different content. For instance:

VIP have access to all the site contents (pages, downloads, etc)
Group 1 has access to public pages, a set of private pages and downloads
Group 2 has access to public pages, a different set of private and the same downloads
Group 3 has access to public pages, yet a different set of private plus some of the pages from Group 1 and 2 and the same downloads
Registered users have access to the public pages and the downloads
Non-Members have access to just the public pages.

The site admin would create registration forms for the users of the groups and the VIP users and email them the link to the private form for them to fill out. The form would sign the user up to the appropriate group.

Registered users are done on-line and is self-serve.

Is this something that can be done with s2Member? Do I need the free or Pro version?

Thank you for your inquiry.

s2Member should be able to handle all of this.

Group 1 has access to public pages, a set of private pages and downloads
Group 2 has access to public pages, a different set of private and the same downloads
Group 3 has access to public pages, yet a different set of private plus some of the pages from Group 1 and 2 and the same downloads

Because you have groups that can’t access the same thing as other groups, you’ll have to use s2Member’s Custom Capabilities. s2Member’s Membership Levels are incremental, meaning that a User at s2Member Level 2 can access content restricted at s2Member Level 1, and s2Member Level 0. This does not work the same way with Custom Capabilities. They are separate from membership levels and any User can buy a Custom Capability with one of these buttons:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Capability (Buy Now) Buttons

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities
See Also: Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)