Will your product allow me to do this?

I have a client who sells research reports. I have designed a WP site for them. They have a library of reports (PDFs) and want customers to be able to login to the site, see what they have previously purchased and be able to download those PDFs. Each customer of theirs will have several employees who will need access to the reports they have purchased. All purchases occur offline so no payment gateway is needed.

I need to protect their report content from non-customers. Also, they would like to be able to see who accessed what content and how many times they downloaded it.

Each customer will have purchased different reports. So customer A needs access to a different set of reports than customer B. There will not be many customers, maybe twenty. Each customer may have 5-15 employees who will need to have access to the purchased content.

Will your plugin handle all these functions?

Hi Ann.

Yes, those could be done. You may use custom capabilities to protect the reports, and you’d manually add these custom capabilities to the user so he has access.

For access to several users, you’d need to have each user have an account and add the custom capabilities to each. Or have them share the same account, in which case you’ll want to adjust your IPs limit here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Unique IP Access Restrictions[/hilite]

s2Member keeps a downloads count, but it’s not file specific, it’s the total for all the files downloaded. For something more specific, you would need to add your own counter hacking the code a bit.

We’re adding advanced logging to the new s2Member being developed, so it’ll be possible eventually, but it’s not available yet, I’m afraid.

I hope that helps. :)