Bruce

Thank you for your inquiry.

Sorry for the delay.

3. I want to allow users to register for the groups themselves. I would like to email them a link (hidden) to the group they will be part of. They would register, get their password and then be able to log in and see that content. Can I have multiple registration forms that allow them to be placed into the groups?

I would say the easiest way to do this currently would be to use s2Member’s Custom Capabilities to separate Users into groups

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities

You can set up Free Registration Pro Forms and have Users create accounts for others/for themselves with these Custom Capabilities with s2Member Pro

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

4. Is it possible to allow a user to put in their own password and then when they complete the registration they are automatically logged in?

Not automatically, no. I believe there are some hacks for having this happen in the forums somewhere. I would check this subforum:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/forum/community/extensions-hacks/

I received details through the Private Contact From, but when I try to navigate to log in to your site, I’m getting prompted with a 404 message. This is the URL I’m using:

https://fernleafconsulting.co.uk/wp-login.php

Where can I log in to see your setup?

Thank you for your inquiry.

We’re very sorry for the delay in response.

The front page of my site is my blog – this is available to anyone and all. However, I want visitors to the rest of my site to have to register to access my site – this will be free.

This is possible. I will note that you cannot restrict s2Member’s Membership Options Page (aka Signup Page), as s2Member protects your content by redirecting to this page. Otherwise you should be able to restrict all of your content.

Mingle Forum:
There will be a paid members only section of the forum – obviously only paid members can gain access.

I’m not familiar with Mingle Forums, but s2Member should be able to restrict access to specific forums if the URL structure for the forums can work with s2Member’s URI Restrictions.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions

NextGenGallery:
Also I will have an image gallery (NextGenGallery) which I want viewable by anyone registered – However, to open the gallery to view the images visitors need to be a paid member.

I’m not familiar with protecting images with NextGenGallery. I do know that many of our Users do use NextGenGallery with s2Member without issue, though.

Other pages within Site:
In future I may want certain pages or areas of pages available to paid members only.

Yes this is possible.

Hope someone can help me with my answers so I can decide if I should purchase pro or not.:-)

Because there are some questionmarks here, I’d recommend trying restriction with the s2Member Framework for NextGenGallery and Mingle Forums. If you can do that with little problem, then you might consider getting s2Member Pro. :-)

Thank you for your inquiry.

I believe the issue you’re coming up with here may have to do with your WordPress site URL that you have set up in your general WordPress settings. What do you have set up under Settings -> General for your Site URL?

if the 1st trial period is free (e.g. Buying via Groupon will give one year free for example) and after then there is yearly fee, then I am assuming I don’t need to follow the “using a free coupon code” as PayPal allows for free trial? Am I correct?

Correct if it’s just a free trial, you can set your trial amount to $0.00, and your duration for 1 year.

I am not quite sure how to add voucher code to database table just yet and to create that type of lookup. Most likely will need a developer. Is it fairly complex and costly to do?

I think the major thing here is not storing the codes but actually putting them to use. s2Member doesn’t directly integrate with Groupon so you’ll have to edit your Pro Form based on an external method. I’m unsure how much this would cost to have done, you’d have to get a quote. We recommend http://odesk.com, http://elance.com/, and http://jobs.wordpress.net/.

Thank you for your inquiry.

You can change your name in your Profile:

http://www.s2member.com/profile/

You can change that in the Display Name field.

Yes I am talking about the custom validation as I could only see US and Canada zip validation as options?

What option should I select to use international zip validation ?

Gotcha. I’d recommend the alphanumerics 5 or more for the time being. I’ll recommend a change on this to our development team.

I’m very sorry for the delay in response.

First, is it possible to only allow login access and NOT registration to a site? I would like to delegate the registration for specific users, providing them with passwords and usernames and have them log in at their convenience, but I do not wish for anyone to be able to visit my site and sign up on their own.

Yes definitely. You can disable Open Registration here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Open Registration

As long as Open Registration is OFF, and you do not have any Membership Level # Pro Forms/Free Registration Pro Forms there will be no way for a User to sign up for your site.

Second, My site will be e-commerce based, but I am looking to have ONLY products for sale, no services. I only want the pricing and purchase ability to be available to members that I have signed up (specific clients). In addition to that, I would like to grant specific content / page access to the members I choose.

You can protect content that only Users that have been signed up by protecting the content @ s2Member Level 0, either through the traditional ways gone over in this article, or through Shortcode Conditionals.

See: Knowledge Base » A Basic Guide to Protecting Content With s2Member®

And third, because my site will be product-sale based, is there a shopping cart aspect of S2member?

No s2Member does not have a Shopping Cart. You can only sell things in bundles with Membership Levels, or you can sell one or many Custom Capabilities with these buttons:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Capability (Buy Now) Buttons

Are these things possible with Pro / Free / Both?

These things are all available in both s2Member Pro and the s2Member Framework.

Thank you for your inquiry.

s2Member does not have any direct integration with WPJobBoard, however I believe what you’re looking to do would be possible.

As far as I can see it comes down to getting WPJobBoard to assign one s2Member membership level to employers and a different one to candidates. Then we can use s2Member to look after who can access what, and for how much, easily. I have asked the WPJobBoard Support Team if this is possible.

This sounds like it would work correct is the developers for WPJobBoard have this possible. You can still restrict content based on Membership Levels if you add in capabilities/bend the rules for the other plugin. I am not familiar with the plugin myself, so I can’t tell you for sure.

I was wondering if you guys were ever planning to update the s2 member for eCommerce transactions like
the features i asked about.

We are not planning on adding any direct integration with shipping companies, if that’s what you’re asking. We may make the setup of adding this capability easier in the future, however.

Thank you for your inquiry.

No, s2Member does not support Cybersource. To see a list of payment gateways s2Member does support, see this FAQ:

Pre Sale FAQs » What payment gateways does s2Member® support?

Please point me the code in s2member, where new registered user is added to mailChimps list.

The MailChimp integration is done within s2Member’s List Servers:

http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/list_servers/c_ws_plugin__s2member_list_servers/

Yes, the bold + s2Member Pro… is there. Something I did not mention before is that my instalation is on localhost.
I also did reinstall both the framework and the pro package. But is not showing me the pro forms option.

Got it. Could you make sure that you have the PayPal Pro Forms enabled here please?

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Other Gateways