Signup question

I recently upgraded to S2Member Blog Farm as we want to offer blogs to our customers and that is the correct license type for that model. In our internal test site (based on the free version) we had blog creation setup by unlocking wp-signup. That process stepped through payments (user was transferred to paypal) and on successful payment continued with the signup process. To the best of my recollection that worked out of the box.

With upgrading to the full product signup is locked “This is now locked. Your /wp-config.php file says: MULTISITE_FARM = true.” Obviously I want to use pro forms for the signup process as well keeping customers on our main site from where we would offer the blogs. From what I read it looks like the user is paying first (pro forms) and then I have to add some customization to redirect the process to signup again or is that standard as well? I would like to do site payment and site creation in one go. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Ignore the above, the answer is in the documentation in S2Member itself. “if you are offering Blogs, you will still need to facilitate the actual creation of each Blog”. I’ll redirect the user upon first login for the blog creation.
Another question on the Blog Farm product. By upgrading to the Blog Farm I sort of expected that there would only be one instance of S2Member active (at the main blog, blog id 1) but if I create a new blog (through signup) it has an instance of S2Member running there as well. It has all the metadata (payment and eot etc.) attached at mail level so why is the local copy of S2Member in the created blog (intended for customer use)? Have I misconfigured?

but if I create a new blog (through signup) it has an instance of S2Member running there as well.

If you activated s2Member network-wide, it’ll be active in the child blogs. But even if it’s not active, it’ll be listed as a plugin available to the child blogs because that’s what WP does.

I’m pretty sure I remember seeing a plugin that lets you hide what plugins are available to the child blogs.

It has all the metadata (payment and eot etc.) attached at mail level

I’m not sure I understand. You mean that the child blog’s instance of s2Member, has the settings values that you entered in the main blog’s s2Member?

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By the way, have you watched this video? Video » s2Member® Multisite Networking