s2member for membership directory

I have a few questions about s2member that hopefully someone can answer:

We are creating a website for a chamber of commerce and they have 4 membership levels based on the number of employees, also they want to add small additional fees or options that the user can choose to have included or refuse upon registration, for example:

– Website link fee (25.00) – user would select yes or no
– Scholarship fund (donation): 25, 50, 100, or user-inputted amount

Is this possible via PayPal with the free or paid plugin? Will it tally up the total?

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Can I create pages / posts and allow users to edit them?

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Is it possible to create a user-profile post/page for each member based on the registration form?

Hi Andrew,

Please see my replies below:

Is this possible via PayPal with the free or paid plugin? Will it tally up the total?

s2Member won’t tally up the total on it’s own, no. You’d need to write a bit of code that calculates the total and then passes that onto s2Member. s2Member was not designed with shopping cart features in mind, however we’re working to improve its use in that regard with the next major release of the plugin.

Can I create pages / posts and allow users to edit them?

Currently, s2Member only provides viewing capabilities, as all s2Member roles are based upon the WordPress Subscriber role. You can manually change this using a 3rd party Role Editor plugin if necessary, but s2Member was not designed for that role.

Is it possible to create a user-profile post/page for each member based on the registration form?

Yes, to a degree. Please see Video » s2Member (Client Portals?) for more ideas about how this might work.

Thank you for your detailed reply!

I am looking forward to the next major release.

Raam,

I’m curious, is there an expected time for the next major release?

Hi Marcos,

We don’t currently have a release date, but we’ll hopefully be doing beta testing within the next few weeks. We’ll make an official announcement as soon as possible.

Cool, Thanks Raam!