Renewal question

Can you please explain how renewals works. I am using 1-year non-recurring membership with PayPal standard. My understanding is that membership must be non-renewing with PayPal standard. So, how do I set up a renewal for the next year? Does the member need to register again? Will I get duplicates?

thanks.

So, how do I set up a renewal for the next year? Does the member need to register again? Will I get duplicates?

No, a User does not need to register again. You can have Users re-up their subscription using these forms:

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

Will this work when using PayPal standard? Andis the a standard way to direct site visitors?

Thanks.

Will this work when using PayPal standard? Andis the a standard way to direct site visitors?

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Modification Buttons

I’m unsure what you mean about a way to direct site visitors. Are you looking for a way to tell Users that are logged in to use a specific Button/Form? You can do that with Shortcode Conditionals.

See: Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

Ok, thanks.

What about the PayPal standard issue? Do I still use the pro forms?

No, he probably missed that you said PayPal Standard or confused it with another post he just read when he replied. PayPal Standard is not supported by the pro-forms, only the buttons work with PayPal Standard. Sorry about the confusion.

If you’re selling non-recurring, do you mean a 1 payment subscription or a buy-now transaction? If you don’t give a trial term, then it’s better to use a buy-now than subscriptions for a single payment. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes -> rr="BN"[/hilite]

If you use buy-now, then to extend his access the user can be logged in to his existing account, pay again with the buy-now button and have the new paid time be added to the paid time he had left from the previous payment.

In your EOT Behavior panel there’s a setting to have these buy-now purchases extend the time he has left. See: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior -> Fixed-Term Extensions (Auto-Extend)[/hilite]

I set up the memberships as 1year non-recurring as this is what I understood to be supported by PayPal standard for a 1 year membership term,

So, I assume that I can follow the information you provided and that this will work to extend the term. We are somewhat concerned about getting duplicate members.

Thanks

Make sure that your shortcode has the [hilite mono]rr[/hilite] attribute set to [hilite mono]BN[/hilite] (buy now), then the auto-extend will work if they pay again while logged in to their existing account.

If they’re logged out, then the payment will go towards a new account. One way to prevent this happening by mistake, you can allow free registrations and only have the payment button shown to logged in users to upgrade the account.

So, as long as they are logged in, I only need to make sure that the rr attribute is correctly set to ben. I do not have to set up anything else. Is this correct?

Thanks.

So, as long as they are logged in, I only need to make sure that the rr attribute is correctly set to ben. I do not have to set up anything else. Is this correct?

Sorry for the delay in reponse.

Yes this is correct. You should set your rr attribute to BN, and s2Member can detect if a User is logged in or not.

Great. Thanks for your help.