Will S2Member do all of this?

My client is a journalist who publishes a daily newsletter. He wants to charge customers to receive this newsletter.

We will use Mailchimp to generate the email each day. We need a service like S2Member to handle the user signup process. This would include: 1) taking their payment, 2) adding them to the list in mail chimp, and 3) sending a confirmation email.

We want the charges to be automatically re-billed on an annual basis.

If a user cancels his payment, or the card is declined, the user should be removed from the mailing list automatically.

Questions:
– Will your software allow us to accomplish all of these things above?
– How will your software handle the case where the user’s payment is canceled? Does your system automatically send a notification email?
– Do we need any SSL certificates on the site?
– Do we need PayPal Pro, assuming we want to integrate with PayPal?

Please let me know the answers to these questions ASAP. We need to select a software this week.

Will your software allow us to accomplish all of these things above?

Yes, s2Member is capable of all of this. For integration with MailChimp see:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› MailChimp®

How will your software handle the case where the user’s payment is canceled? Does your system automatically send a notification email?

This is not something that s2Member currently supports. I’ll take this as a feature request for a future version of s2Member, but in the meantime you cannot accomplish this without custom code. If you’re interested in doing this with custom code, please see the following section for info:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior

Do we need any SSL certificates on the site?

This depends on the Payment Gateway. Regular PayPal Express Checkout transactions do not require an SSL certificate. However, PayPal Pro and Authorize.Net do require SSL.

Do we need PayPal Pro, assuming we want to integrate with PayPal?

Paypal Pro is only needed for processing Credit Cards on-site. See:

Pre Sale FAQs » To use s2Member® Pro Forms, will I have to use PayPal® Pro?