s2member Pricing Table Integration

Hi,

My wordpress theme has a built in pricing table that requires an actual url for the signup button, meaning I cannot use the shortcode that s2member generates.

I followed the advice on the exact same problem here: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/paypal-buttons/ – however, changing the shortcode to display the URL gives me my IP address and invoice numbers rather than a generic URL that everyone can use for the signup.

Here is what I mean:

My signup page – http://decisivebetting.com/membership/
My test page (with the output=”url” option in the shortcode) – http://decisivebetting.com/blahhtest/

The shortcode s2member generates:

[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="1" ccaps="" desc="Monthly Subscription / £10 Recurring" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="GBP" dg="0" ns="1" custom="decisivebetting.com" ta="10" tp="1" tt="M" ra="10" rp="1" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="url" /]

The form code s2member uses:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
 
 
 <!-- Instant Payment Notification &amp; Return Page Details -->
 
 
 
 
 <!-- Configures Basic Checkout Fields -->
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 <!-- Configures s2Member's Unique Invoice ID/Code  -->
 &lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;invoice&quot; value=&quot;" /&gt;
 <!-- Identifies/Updates An Existing User/Member ( when/if applicable )  -->
 &lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;on0&quot; value=&quot;" /&gt;
 &lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;os0&quot; value=&quot;" /&gt;
 <!-- Identifies The Customer's IP Address For Tracking -->
 &lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;on1&quot; value=&quot;" /&gt;
 &lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;os1&quot; value=&quot;" /&gt;
 <!-- Controls Modify Behavior At PayPal® Checkout -->
 
 <!-- Customizes Prices, Payments &amp; Billing Cycle -->
 &lt;!----&gt;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 <!-- Displays The PayPal® Image Button -->
 
</form>

Part of my themes pricing table shortcode:

[pricing_table column_count="3" type="simple"]

[pricing_column title="Monthly" price="£10" period="/month" description="Great Value" sign_up_title="Sign Up" sign_up_url="#"]

Football Tips
Horse Racing
Major Events Tips
Best Odds Available
Daily Updates
Customer Support
Consistent Profit
[/pricing_column]

To clarify, what I want to be able to do is use the built in pricing tables of my theme (smartstart WP from themeforest) so the signup buttons work with s2member, but to do this, I need an actual URL rather than shortcode.

Hi Craig,

why not choose a simple way.

You simple add three new pages.

decisivebetting.com/membership/Monthly

decisivebetting.com/membership/Quarterly

decisivebetting.com/membership/Yearly

On this pages use the s2 generated paypal forms

[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="1" ccaps="" desc="Monthly Subscription / £10 Recurring" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="GBP" dg="0" ns="1" custom="decisivebetting.com" ta="10" tp="1" tt="M" ra="10" rp="1" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="url" /]

Then insert into your pricing table buttons the following urls.

http://decisivebetting.com/membership/Monthly

http://decisivebetting.com/membership/Quarterly

http://decisivebetting.com/membership/Yearly

This could be the easy way.

Unfortunately, while that would work It’s not really what I wanted to do. That solution would just mean I’d end up with them clicking “sign up” and then going to another page to click the paypal button.

I just want there to be a seamless transition from clicking sign up, to the paypal payment form. I’ve found several instances of this question being asked before, but none really receive any sort of answer to it beyond what I’ve already tried to implement.

My only real option that I can think of if there is no answer my problem is to bodge the pricing tables by removing the signup button and trying to align the s2member shortcode before the right table with my pricing table signup buttons as the image, rather than the s2member default.

The s2pro version of the plugin has a really nice form for that.

The customer can fill out the form direct on your page.

Have a look at the s2pro site and expand this PayPal® Pro Form Integration (Most Popular)

I’m having the same issue here, and agree with Craig that it’s not ideal (for conversion rates and convenience to the user mainly) to send the user to another page just to click a pay button there.

Christian, I have s2member pro, but I’m not sure how the pro forms would help in this specific situation. Could you explain a little further? Thanks!!

Edit: I understand that it could help if you went the PayPal Pro route (because you could just use your own normal button to link to your pro form checkout page), but I don’t understand how it could help if you try to go the PayPal Standard button checkout route.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by  Frank.

Hi Frank,

i’ll will try to explain what i mean.

With the s2member pro form you can simple made an in page order form. The visitor wouldn’t leave your page.

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form... ]

s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="1" ccaps="" desc="$24.95 USD / Quarterly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="localhost" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="24.95" rp="3" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /

Let say you have a page with pricing tables (the membership options page).

Page name -> yoururl.tld/myoffers/

on that page there is a pricing table with three membership options and a short info what they get.

option table ->

offer/length	monthly	quarterly	yearly
free item	5	20	70
great article	include	included	included
ans so on
price info	$14.95 (order buttom) with link to monthly page	$39.95 (oder buttom) with link to quarterly page	$69 (order buttom) with link to yearly page

Page name -> yoururl.tld/myoffers/monthly

on that page just paste the s2 pro form snippet for monthly membership and ready.

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form... ]

s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="1" ccaps="" desc="$24.95 USD / Quarterly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="localhost" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="24.95" rp="3" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /

Page name -> yoururl.tld/myoffers/quarterly

on that page just paste the s2 pro form snippet for quarterly membership and ready.

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form... ]

s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="1" ccaps="" desc="$24.95 USD / Quarterly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="localhost" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="24.95" rp="3" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /

Page name -> yoururl.tld/myoffers/yearly

on that page just paste the s2 pro form snippet for yearly membership and ready.

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form... ]

s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="1" ccaps="" desc="$24.95 USD / Quarterly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="localhost" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="24.95" rp="3" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /

If you have more options you can expand this of course.

i hope it has become a bit clearer.

Hi Christian,

If I understand you correctly, that’s pretty much what I initially set out to do. I think that only works with PayPal Pro though. I’m assuming the OP wants a solution that uses PayPal Standard.

The reason I started looking into the PayPal buttons via PayPal Standard instead of the Pro Forms route was because I found out that I would have to handle PCI compliance on my site (about $500 per year) if I went the PayPal Pro + Pro Forms route.

Thanks for the ideas!

Frank

Hi Frank,

correct me if I’m wrong. PCI is only for Credit Card processing.

This works on all PayPal accounts as listed below.

On the PayPal page compare-business-products are these informations.

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Snippet from the PayPal page -> taken on 15.nov.2012

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PayPal Payments Solutions Comparison Chart Sales: 1-800-514-4923 Choose the solution that fits your business.

(You can always change your solution after sign-up.)

PayPal Payments Features	Standard Get Started	Advanced Apply Now	Pro Apply Now
Monthly fee	$0	$5	$30
Accept credit cards Accept (your buyers don’t need a PayPal account)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Accept PayPal payments Give buyers the ease and security of paying you directly from their PayPal account. (100M online shoppers use PayPal)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Send invoicesSend an invoice in minutes, then quickly update the details for your next customer. They get your invoice in their inbox and click the payment button to pay you. online for fast payment	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free card swiper Accept card payments in person with our new mobile plug-in card reader. for your iPhone, iPad, or Android device	Yes	Yes	Yes
Accept checksNow you can deposit your customers’ checks the moment you receive them. Just snap a picture of the check and transfer it into your account with your PayPal Mobile App. with the camera on your mobile device	Yes	Yes	Yes
Get paid on eBay and Etsy	Yes	Yes	Yes
Get a PayPal Debit Card and earn up to 1% cash back*	Yes	Yes	Yes
Comprehensive PayPal data security and fraud protection	Yes	Yes	Yes
Accept payments in 24 currencies from 190 countries	Yes	Yes	Yes
Simplified PCI compliance (helps protect buyers’ card information)	Yes	Yes	Yes**
No long-term contracts, setup, withdrawal, or cancellation fees	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nonprofit discount available for PayPal transactions	Yes	Yes	Yes
Toll-free phone support (including after-hours)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Offer customers special financing	Yes	Yes	Yes
Provide Bill Me Later as a payment option on your checkout page	NA	Yes	Yes***
Customers pay without ever leaving your website	NA	Yes	Yes
Accept credit cards via phone, fax, and mail (Virtual TerminalWith Virtual Terminal, simply log in to your PayPal account and process phone, fax, and mail orders online.)	NA	NA	Yes
Design and host your own checkout pages for full control	NA	NA	Yes
More info: Merchant fees | See all merchant services	Get Started Learn more	Apply Now Learn more	Apply Now Learn more

Accept Give buyers the ease and security of paying you directly from their PayPal account. Accept card payments in person with our new mobile plug-in card reader. Send an invoice in minutes, then quickly update the details for your next customer. They get your invoice in their inbox and click the payment button to pay you. Now you can deposit your customers’ checks the moment you receive them. Just snap a picture of the check and transfer it into your account with your PayPal Mobile App. With Virtual Terminal, simply log in to your PayPal account and process phone, fax, and mail orders online.

* You can apply for the PayPal Debit Card MasterCard Business Card after your PayPal account has been in good standing for 60 days.

** Configurable

*** Requires use of the hosted templates in PayPal Payments Pro

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Snippet from the PayPal page -> end

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You can also try to adjust your s2member-pro-form accept command.

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form ... accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" ...]

change into only paypal

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form ... accept="paypal" ...]

Then you will accept only paypal payment and no creditcards.

maybe it was helpful :-)

Christian,

It’s for any payment processing where financial details pass through your servers. If you use PayPal Pro + Pro Forms, if I’m not mistaken, credit card details make their way through your site’s servers on their way to PayPal’s for processing.

But regardless, I just checked the Pro Forms section of s2member and noticed that Pro Forms can be integrated with PayPal express checkout.

And you’re exactly right there with that last tip. Thanks for pointing that out! I’m going to try this, as it might be a good interim solution!

Thanks,
Frank

So, it “works” but it’s going to be super confusing to users. The pro form loads, says “we accept paypal” above the payment options, and everything (visa, mc, etc.) is grayed out except for paypal. In other words, it will make people think they need a paypal account to checkout. When in reality, they can enter their cc on the next page via paypal.

I am really looking for a solution to this as well. It’s very annoying.

I am also trying to use a table for my membership options

But I can’t use the S2Member button generator for the code… I just need the URL

Is this possible?