Bruce

Thank you for your inquiry.

1. User logs in via WP
2. User is forward to a custom form that is NOT a wp page.
3. User completes form, goes back to a WP page.
4. User selects to pay for document
5. User is taken to checkout page where I can implement coupons, and sent to PayPal
6. If payment is successful, user is sent to a page where they can now download document
7. IF user is unsuccessful, they are presented with an error.

This seems possible. You can use s2Member’s success attribute to send Users back to the page to download their full file. There will need to be some custom code written here, however, to work with the back-and-forth between s2Member and your external website that we can’t help with really. You’ll need a developer that can help you with this.

Sorry, but what do you mean by decoding?

The URL that s2Member returns from this parameter is URL encoded, so you can’t actually redirect to this URL directly. You’ll have to have a process that decodes this value to redirect to it. However like Cristian mentioned, we can’t tell for sure if this is a problem with the redirection, or this fact.

By a different url you mean a different success url?

Yes, it wold be great if you could change your success URL and run a test transaction to see if the redirect itself is working correctly.

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m thinking of making all of the invoice clients “level 2″, but I don’t want to require a credit card for them to get access — in essence, make it a free level, but hidden or maybe require a coupon?

It sounds like Access Restriction URLs would work for you here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Pro Forms -› Registration Access Links

You can give Users that pay through an outside source one of these values, with a custom Subscription ID (that won’t be linked to Authorize.Net), and have them sign up normally.

So that takes care of these two:

• Not require credit card
• Only allow the right people access to that level
• Ideally control the number of individuals who could redeem coupon for their subscription
  If this is a monthly invoice, I probably also will have a grace period issue where I need to accomodate them paying late, like i’m sure some of them will.

As far as sending the User an invoice, that’s something you’ll have to do outside of s2Member.

Thank you for your inquiry.

I used the short code for the login

I’m assuming you’re talking about the PHP Pro Login Widget, correct? s2Member does not have a shortcode for creating a login form.

This function is documented here:

http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_s2member_pro_login_widget()

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m not experienced with Evergreen, but I can tell you that you can have s2Member give you a URL instead of a button by changing your output attribute to url.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)

This link that is generated can be linked anywhere, unless you’re forcing s2Member to encode its Buttons/URLs with the option here: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -› Enable Button Encryption?

Thank you for your inquiry.

I want a SIMPLE POP UP that appears on the home page of my website, and then FORCES users to enroll in a 30-day FREE membership, after 30 days paying $9.99 a month by Paypal.

This is not how s2Member restricts access to content. If you’d like to have your User presented with Pop-up, you can do this with another plugin, such as this one:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popup/

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

Could you please check to ensure that the following file exists?

/wp-content/plugins/s2member-pro/pro-module.php

If this file exists in this specific directory, and s2Member Pro is still not showing up in your Dashboard, please send us a Dashboard and FTP login here so we can take a look:

s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Let us know if/when you do that.

Yes I do have logging enabled. In the Description for paypal-rtn.log, it says “Not used in s2Member® Pro Form integrations however”. I’m using s2member Pro form.

Ah yes, sorry for the confusion here.

I just took a look at your Dashboard using the information that you provided previously through Private Contact Form. I’m going to say the issue is related to what Cristian mentioned in his previous reply:

You can use the %%sp_access_url%% replacement code in your success attribute, but that’s encoded, so you’d need to decode it before redirecting the user to it. Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Custom Return URLs Upon Success -> Specific Post/Page -> %%sp_access_url%%

Would you mind trying a test transaction with a different URL other than this, and see if the redirect itself is wrong?

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m forwarding this to our billing department. Thanks for your patience.

So basically, the requirement would be to have the member PUT, from the start, on a specific list, NOT move it or move it to a different list before it is sent to MC lists. Is that what that API would do?

Oh, I see what you mean now. Sorry for the confusion. If that’s the case then you could easily set up multiple free levels using the Free Registration Forms with s2Member Pro.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms

You can grant access to any level for free using these forms, and the User will be added to the corresponding MailChimp list. You can use Free Registration Forms to sign Users up to different MailChimp lists that way, and assuming you’re only restricting content at Level 0 or higher, this won’t cause any issues since everything on your site would be free, right?

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m trying to convert an existing DAP membership system to S2 for my client. They already have a separate table in the database that has a registration and an expiration date tied to their WP_user table. Is there a way to run a db query to update the expiration date for these users without having to export using S2 and then manually try to merge two different files?

You can do that like this:

<?php
update_user_option ($user_id, 's2member_auto_eot_time', $eot);

Thank you for your inquiry.

Can I write some php to strip out the 1% and then do a substr or something to remove to characters from the front? Will that format always be consistent like that? Basically 4 characters needing to be removed all the time? Or is there an easier way?

I believe you’re looking for urldecode.

See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

I’m going to have the development team look into this and we’ll get back to you ASAP.