reinstate a member after late payment

Hi,
We have memberships for our website. If a member does not renew their membership on time, we have it set up to demote them to free subscriber. However, if they do pay, just late, their account is not “reinstated” as their previous access level.
I’ve found these posts and they don’t shed any hope/much detail. I couldn’t really find any other posts about this.
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/paypal-reactivated-but-role-not-changed/
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/please-reinstate-suspended-members/

Can you please tell me if this is an intended behavior (to NOT reinstate a member after late payment)? Or if this might be a change coming? Or if “reinstatement” exists, point me to instructions on how to troubleshoot?

Thank you for your time!
Mary B.

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry for the delay in response.

s2Member does not allow Users to be “reinstated” after a payment fails and PayPal sends s2Member a message telling it that the User’s Subscription is over (based on what you have set up in your Shortcode’s RRA attribute).

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) -› rra

To have a User gain access after they have been demoted by s2Member, they need to sign back up at your site through s2Member again. Check out these forms for information on how you can let Users bump their account status back up:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms

Hi Bruce!
Thank you for the information! It looks like the billing forms only come with Paypal Pro – correct? If so, are there any options with the free Paypal?
Thanks!
Mary B.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Modification Buttons
This is the equivalent with free PayPal “Buttons”. Not exactly the same, but it should help in this case :-)