S2 : Suitable for 'For sale by owner' site?

Hi, we’re looking to set up a ‘for sale by owner’ property listing site and need certain functionality. Is S2 the right plugin? Hopefully, S2 has been utilized for this type of set up by other users….

So a few questions…

We need the ability for a user to register, upload text, docs and images and then be able to re-edit obviously only the profile/post that they have created – i.e to amend their listing.

We will offer a free period and then a paid for subscription to the site. Is this doable?

If S2 does not have the functionality to auto-fill from a form to a ‘post’ , can you recommend a form builder that will do this and more importantly will work well with S2?

Thanks in advance
Paul

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry for the delay in response.

s2Member doesn’t have any direct integration that makes this possible. To accomplish this would require custom code, unfortunately. What s2Member can accomplish for you is managing your subscriptions, and providing you with the ability to restrict the ability to Post for specific Users, at a bare minimum.

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Some things I’d see that you’d definitely have to have a developer set up:

Since you’re creating Posts, a developer will have to set up an API Notification handler for cancellations here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Cancellation Notifications
See: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

This API Notification Handler would have to delete/convert all of the Posts that the User set up to draft to keep them from showing up any longer.

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If you’re planning on restricting the number of times a User can post, there will need to be a system set up for restriction on that front. s2Member will only be able to restrict the ability to see the form based on User level / Custom Capabilities with Shortcode Conditionals.

See: Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

If S2 does not have the functionality to auto-fill from a form to a ‘post’ , can you recommend a form builder that will do this and more importantly will work well with S2?

Sorry, I can’t think of any myself. You might check out this plugin. I haven’t personally used it, though:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/

Let us know if you have any more questions on this. :-)

Hello Paul,

It is good to hear that you are willing to use s2Member to set up your site with the feature” sale by owner”. both the free as well as the paid versions of s2Member provides you the flexibility of adding levels to memberships as per your requirements.

Regarding the auto-fill form you can use Gravity forms which seamlessly integrates with s2Member. Let me know if you require assistance in concern to this setup.