Bruce

However when I send (any) email to the system (using mysb-memb_gld@aweber.com) a contact is added, BUT it’s picking up the data from (I’m guessing) the headers of the email, rather than the body.

It’s adding a contact for the “from” email address and “from” name…rather than parsing the “body” of the email.

I see now. Thanks for the clarification. I’m not sure why this would happen, perhaps AWeber will only match the field from the body if it’s not provided in the header. Or perhaps it’s because of the way your email program sends the data. Have you tried the integration with s2Member to see if it works correctly that way?

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My game is Android based and that could be the problem.

This shouldn’t affect anything. Your site will still load hooks.

FYI i have been using this for reference: http://www.s2member.com/kb/remote-user-status-custom-api/

This is a separate thing. You’d only need this if you’re changing something with the User’s allowed downloads directly, which you shouldn’t be. And even if you wanted to, I’m not sure why you would use s2Member’s download counter. It would be easier to create your own meta value.

I think I could help you better if you could explain the flow you’re looking for.

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Could we take a take a look at your setup’s FTP and Dashboard?

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I would use Pro-forms, which I understand avoid that problem, but I also understand they don’t work with Buddypress profiles, which is the setup I have on my site and can’t change.

Unfortunately the only way you’re going to have Users upgrade is to either:

1) Have them checkout through Pro Forms, which isn’t possible for you.

2) Have them cancel their subscription before they create a new one.

The section option is what s2Member does with Pro Forms. The old subscription is canceled, and a new one is created to replace it. You can have Users cancel their profile with Cancellation Buttons.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Cancellation Buttons

This payments skipped problem is such a hassle, for my customers and for me, and there ought to be an easy way to fix it. Paypal insists it isn’t their problem…but then why do the annual payments go through? Except for now with this dratted new rule?

I’ve seen reports of skipped payments happening with PayPal outside of s2Member, and I haven’t seen any solid solutions for this. Based on the information I’ve seen skipped payments are due to bank accounts/PayPal accounts with insufficient funds. You can keep too many skipped payments from happening in subscriptions by changing your rra attribute, as s2Member regards skipped payments as failed payments.

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

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I’ve completed a couple test registrations, and all goes well, except I’m not redirected to the new page.

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Why am I getting the prompt that the number doesn’t belong to an existing user? I know the user doesn’t exist…that’s why I’m trying to import new users.

s2Member creates a User ID for new Users via Import. If you provide an ID, s2Member will look for an existing User. When you’re importing new Users you should omit this field.

So I should be ok then not having to setup IPN within Paypal… and just leaving it to S2Member to pass the notify_url

Right. Sorry I was confusing. Let us know if you have any further questions/concerns. :-)

How can I add a specific url the user gets returned to when using the html/php form code for paypal?

You’d use the success attribute. You need s2Member Pro installed to do this.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Custom Return URLs Upon Success

but seems I have a big gap on my page from all the hidden fields see here

http://screencast.com/t/dus1zqDOmlw

any easy way to fix this?

That looks like a CSS thing. Could you post a link to the page you have this on?

I can’t really refresh the page since the form comes at the end of previous steps.

I’ve manage to load it with admin-ajax.php and then load the js paypal-min.js to make the form work again but after the submission I’m redirected here admin-ajax.php with 0 as result.

The problem here is that s2Member needs to send the information via POST in the form, and recreate the form with the new price. If you really need this functionality I’d recommend using iFrames. You can submit a form within an iFrame without it refreshing your main page without needing any fancy AJAX. However that leaves the question of how you move the User to PayPal if they select it as their method of payment. If you’re using Authorize.Net you could (maybe) get away with this.

Is there any information that is “passable” to the handler or that can be gleaned from the usermeta data that can help me know if this is a first time payment or a repeating payment?

s2Member provides a lot of replacement codes that are possible to your handler via GET variables. For Payment Notifications you have these:

In addition, you can load in WordPress and use s2Member’s API Functions in your API Notification Handler.

See: s2Member® » Codex » API Functions