Use for a sports club

I’m looking into using s2member to manage membership of a sports club, and am wondering is it suitable? We have individual members at various levels (adult, student, junior, unemployed, life (adult with no recurring fee), and families which may contain various numbers of the other member types, but have one combined membership fee.

Along with membership fee, we have a couple of other fees, for equipment storage and for affiliate membership of a national body, all of which are per person. However, I’d like for all of these extras for a family to be manageable as the family.

Does this sound like something that S2member can handle? We would have no problem with buying the Pro version if that’s what it takes to get the desired functionality (I was looking into using Wild Apricot, which is a subscription service and a nice system, but unfortunately it can’t handle the additional payments on a per person basis for a family).

Hi Niall,

s2Member can help you out here, but this is a rather advanced use of s2Member, so you might run into some roadblocks that require using some of s2Member’s advanced features (which can mean very basic PHP coding).

What s2Member can do for you

• Having multiple membership types is no problem for s2Member at all. You can use Membership Levels (0-4) if you’d like to have incremental access based on the type of account that a User has, or Custom Capabilities (a bit more advanced) to separate User accounts.

  When you install s2Member, you should take a look at these sections of the Dashboard right after you go through the Quick-Start Guide:

  See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Membership Levels/Labels
  See Also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities

• s2Member will handle upgrading and demoting your Users based on what goes on within PayPal, but you’ll have to come up with some creative uses of s2Member’s Custom Capabilities because you are packaging many things into one subscription.
• You’ll be able to keep your content protected based on Membership Level or Custom Capability, which means that Students can can have access to something Juniors do not, and vice-versa.

What s2Member won’t be able to do without a bit of customization

• Giving access to multiple accounts from one subscription is something that is not supported by s2Member directly. You’ll have to use some of s2Member’s Shortcode Conditionals and Free Registration Pro Forms to accomplish this, which means that you’ll need s2Member Pro.

  See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms
  See Also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals

• s2Member can only track one subscription at a time, and will only allow one subscription to be active for any given User, and therefore if the User’s Subscription ends, the User will lose all access. This can be problematic for some Users that want to have multiple payment subscriptions running at a time. You may need some customization here for your uses.