Resubscribe Questions

Background Info: I was using YourMembers Membership Plugin for the past 6 years. They have decided to shut down and suggested S2Members as a replacement. So far I am working my way through transferring everything over. With YourMembers, users could let their 1 month subscription lapse and then go to their membership profile (equivalent of the Login Welcome page in S2Members) and then “change their account status” which would allow them to pick another 1 month subscription.

If I offer a 1 month membership through S2Members what happens when the 1 month is over? How do they resubscribe if they are not on recurring payments? I suppose I could put a link on the Login Welcome page but that would make them create a new user account and I don’t think that should be the only way to do this. I hope I am just missing something on my end.

I don’t think the account is deleted in case the subscription expires. I think the member is demoted to Level 0 ((Free subscriber). In this case, you can maybe create a subscription/payment button and hide it within a conditional that the member has to be a Level 0 one, which means that they still have an account and they are logged in.

Would that work?

how would I write that? Below would only show it to the specific member and that is no problem. The problem is that when you try to sign up, you can’t use the same username because it is already in use. Unless I am missing something but I have looked and can’t figure this out.

[s2If current_user_is(s2member_level0)]
    Button
[/s2If]

Or if I were to do this:

[s2If current_user_is(s2member_level0)]
<a title="Membership Options" href="http://doaminname.com/membership-options/">Renew Your Membership</a>
[/s2If]

…would it allow you to just make another payment and attribute that payment to your account?

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by  Brian Stoiber.

I am 99% sure the member does not have to re-register. If they are Level 0 (so they have to be logged in), then the system would recognise their account (or should), so they would have their level upgraded (if you put a button to a level 1 product). So your first code should work.

In fact, if the member is NOT logged in, that is when they would be requested to create an account, or their level wont be upgraded correctly. But since the button is wrapped in a conditional, it will appear only to logged in members at level 0.

You can also add something like this

[s2If is_user_logged_in()]
   If you want to purchase another .... you need to log in first.
[/s2If]

So if the member is not logged in, they will be prompted to do so, and once they are logged in, they will see the button and not the prompt.

Ok, I think I understand now. Thanks for your help.