Bruce

I found this article: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/recurring-prorating-of-billing/ but it is from 2011 and the suggestion isn’t working for me. Although I am not a developer so it could be user error.

This article goes over the method that is still needed to accomplish what you’re looking for here. s2Member does not natively support prorating subscriptions and having subscriptions start at a certain time so it takes some custom code. For your setup your code would start something like this:

<?php
$now = strtotime("now");
$recurring_start_time = strtotime("01 May 2013");
$days_until_recurring_charges_begin = round(($recurring_start_time - $now) / ($seconds_in_one_day = 86400));
?>

Note: the “Custom capabilities” part is missing from the URE settings form. Screenshots are posted here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-saving-settings-breaks-all-s2member-access-checks?replies=2#post-4163048

It looks like the problem was addressed by the plugin developer. Let us know if problems persist.

What is the extact question I should ask or verify with my hosting company because I have another client (with OpenCart) using the same hosting company, they haven’t has any problem to use the Paypal serive.

I couldn’t tell you what exactly is happening to cause this, only that the connection to PayPal is failing completely. You’ll need to ask your server why this is happening. It’s something beyond the reach of s2Member.

Thanks, when a member signs up will they automatically be granted permission via their member login or will they get a link unique to them they will have to keep using?

Specific Post/Page Restrictions are done outside of User accounts. As I mentioned in my previous reply s2Member won’t let you have multiple subscriptions on one account. They’ll need to use the special key in the email they’ll receive.

However, it seems to return it in this format: m/d/Y.

You can change the format of the return based on what you pass into the first parameter.

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

Secondly, I’ve been doing some test subscriptions – they come through but no timestamp is added. i thought it maybe before the 1st period is a trial, but i should still think it would come through?

s2Member doesn’t get an EOT date until a subscription is canceled with PayPal. This is because the subscription is not yet set to expire, so there is no End of Term to set. These Users will get an End of Term date after their PayPal subscription reaches an end, or the subscription is canceled.

Can you tell me how to get this field in this format in the S2M export?

This would require a hack. s2Member is only able to send the timestamp by default.

Thanks for the follow-up.

I have tried your link and it certainly got different behaviour. The error is printed below. I also tried some other mod links including -s3 which gave me a 404

If you’d getting an error like this it means that s2Member did connect to Amazon and is attempting to read the file normally, so my suspicions were correct in this regard. However it appears that now you have another problem with your keys.

Note that adding the bucket name to the URL is not needed, because you’re only setting up one bucket and s2Member automatically checks the bucket you have set up, so you just need to use the regular linkage.

Finally, and with some interest, I see that the count of files down loaded while I have been trying different paths, has gone to 4. Yet as far as I am concerned there is no file?

That’s to be expected. s2Member is checking to see if the User has access, and then draining the count on that account and sending them to Amazon’s servers. s2Member can’t tell if Amazon is failing of not. I’m recommend changing your settings to allow unlimited downloads while we’re testing.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Basic Download Restrictions

Based on what I’ve read on the NoSuchKey error, as you have, this is a 404 error, so either you have your bucket name wrong, your bucket’s name is invalid (should be all lower case), or there is a network problem that’s causing a 404 somewhere.

Are you using Cloudfront CDN as well?

I’d recommend first wiping your integration clean using the information here:

Knowledge Base » Reset the Amazon S3/CloudFront integration

Then, set your bucket back up in the Dashboard. If you’re using Cloudfront CDN, don’t set that up yet. Just set up a standard S3 Bucket and test a file there. If that still does not work, please send us a Dashboard Login and we’ll take a look at the logs for the connection.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Amazon® S3/CDN Storage

You can send a Dashboard login here: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Once I click on the link it tries to connect then fails and redirects me to the members option page where I find myself logged out.

So s2Member is logging you out when you attempt to access a file? It sounds to me like a conflict with your domain set up. Looking at your URLs, the one you’re linking to the file with begins with fernleafconsulting.co.uk, while your main site resides at fernleafconsulting.co.uk/FLWP/. It looks similar to a don’t mix www and without situation to me. I have been unable to reproduce this issue in my testing environment.

Can you try accessing your file download with this link instead, please?

http://fernleafconsulting.co.uk/FLWP/wp-content/plugins/s2member-files/fernleaf/CodeCanyon.pdf

This link is using the Advanced Mod-Rewrite Linkage gone over here in your Dashboard:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Advanced Mod-Rewrite Linkage

Thank you for your inquiry.

The best places to find developers for s2Member projects (in my experience) are the following:

http://jobs.wordpress.com/
http://elance.com/
http://odesk.com/

We do not take direct requests. Sorry about that.

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

Do you have logging enabled? See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Log Files (Debug) -› Logging Configuration

If you do not, please turn this on temporarily and run a test transaction. Also, could you check to see if the custom fields work with Free Registration Pro Forms?

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

After you get log files, please send us a Dashboard Login so we can take a look at them. You can do that here:

s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

Can you try using the reset roles and capabilities button here, please?

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Membership Levels/Labels

Which you sign up for individually. If a member signs up for Page 1 for 1 month, page 2 for 1 week and not the other pages then I need the custom capabilities to expire at different time, however is this possible?

You should sell your pages with Specific Post/Page Access. s2Member won’t let you have multiple subscriptions going, you have to use these:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Specific Post/Page (Buy Now) Buttons

I watched the video and the bug mentioned there is for firefox. I am using Chrome…what else do you suggest?

In Google Chrome there is a very similar developer toolset built in to the browser. Just press f12.

Done.