Bruce

Is there a filter that we can run to make sure that when redirect_to = “/”, users are sent to the login welcome page instead?

See my post here for info on doing this:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/pro-login-widget-custom-redirect/#post-39547

1.) When a paid member cancels their subscription, doesn’t it just cancel the recurring payment?

That’s correct. If a user cancels their subscription, they are telling PayPal (or whatever gateway you’re using) not to bill them again. They are still provided access for the time that they have paid for.

2.) If a paid member cancels their an annual subscription after two months of the payment date, doesn’t the EOT end in 10 months? At which time, we could set it up to automatically demote them to a free “subscriber”.

Yes, that’s correct. s2Member will use your Automatic EOT settings to decide what to do with the user when the subscription would have renewed if they had not canceled.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior

Because I’m not familiar with Php, do you think I could use
s2Member® / PayPal® Buttons instead upgrading all my “0″ users to “1″?

If you’re looking to upgrade your members to s2Member Level 1, and have them pay for it, then you’ll want to use the option here:

For PayPal Buttons: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Modification Buttons
For s2Member Pro Forms: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms

I’d like to have a registration page with a first choice between “Free users with options” and “Pro Users” with access fee. This choice could also be great at top of home page also.

You can set this up by creating 2 WordPress Posts/Pages with the button shortcodes for each of your options. Then, you can link to these pages anywhere you’d like, including the home page.

Does that make sense?

Thank-you for your inquiry.

This link appears to be working correctly for me. When you use your link, you can check to see if your sale is being tracked at the bottom right corner of the page.

Please let us know if problems persist.

Thank-you for your inquiry.

This would really depend on the affiliate software you are using. s2Member has no control over this, and it’s something that would need to be set up outside of s2Member. You would want to check out the documentation for your affiliate program for doing this.

If you’re using iDevAffiliate, there have been a few workarounds for this. You may want to check out the following links:

http://www.idevdirect.com/module_seo.php
http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?11990-HOWTO-redirect-affiliate-links-to-cart-instead-of-homepage3

Thanks for the follow-up.

Looking at your shortcode, I realize now that you are using a recurring subscription.

The reason this is now happening is because PayPal requires a PayPal account for recurring subscriptions (except for a few exclusions that I’ll explain below).

What I’d recommend doing here is instead use a s2Member Pro Form instead of a link from a PayPal Button. Because you already have PayPal Pro, there really is not any reason that you could not use the Pro Forms here just as well.

Updated code to work with a Pro Form would look like this:

<?php
$PlusFee = 49.95; // Enter subscription fee for Level 1 membership 
$PremFee = 79.95; // Enter subscription fee for Level 2 membership
$PlusDailyRate = .13685; // Enter daily rate based on level 1 subscription fee divided by 365
$PlusCredit = ((365 - S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS) * $PlusDailyRate);
$PremCharges = $PremFee - $PlusCredit; 
$PremCharges = round($PremCharges,2); //round off number to 2 decimal points
?>

<?php
if (S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ACCESS_LEVEL === 1){ ?>
	<?php if(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS >= 0){ ?>
[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="2" modify="1" ccaps="" desc="Prorated Upgrade from Plus to Premier membership for one year for $<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?>" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.domain.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?>" rp="1" rt="Y" rr="0" rrt="" rra="1" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard" accept_via_paypal="paypal" /]
	<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>

If, however, you’re set on using a link like you had set up in your original post, you will need to do one of two things.

The first is that you can continue using your code as-is, and have PayPal enable Enhanced Recurring Processing (ERP), which is another $20 a month. This is something that we really do not like recommending, except in this specific circumstance. This is because ERP has a couple flaws that can cause more issues after the fact.

The biggest problem with ERP is that enabling this makes it so that your customers have no way to cancel their subscription with you other than writing in or calling you, to have you cancel their subscription for you. s2Member’s cancellation forms do not work with ERP, which is a limitation on PayPal’s part.

Alternatively, you could change your PayPal button to be a Buy Now button, for 1 year, non-renewing. To do this you’d change your rr attribute to BN:

<?php
$PlusFee = 49.95; // Enter subscription fee for Level 1 membership 
$PremFee = 79.95; // Enter subscription fee for Level 2 membership
$PlusDailyRate = .13685; // Enter daily rate based on level 1 subscription fee divided by 365
$PlusCredit = ((365 - S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS) * $PlusDailyRate);
$PremCharges = $PremFee - $PlusCredit; 
$PremCharges = round($PremCharges,2); //round off number to 2 decimal points
?>

<?php
if (S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ACCESS_LEVEL === 1){ ?>
	<?php if(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS >= 0){ ?>
<a href="&#91;&#91;s2Member-PayPal-Button level="2" ccaps="" desc="Prorated Upgrade from Plus to Premier membership for one year for $<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?>" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.domain.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?>" rp="1" rt="Y" rr="BN" rrt="" rra="1" accept="paypal" accept_via_paypal="paypal,visa,mastercard" image="default" output="url" /]]"><center><img src="/images/upgrade_now_v2.gif" border="0" width="250px" height="160px"></center><div class="upgrade">for only $<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?></div></a><br>
	<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>

Your users should then be able to pay with a credit card through PayPal as you’d like, but they will need to renew manually when they are revoked access.

This being said, I would strongly recommend using the s2Member Pro Forms with PayPal Pro, as you already have it set up.

Please let us know if problems persist. :-)

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by  Bruce. Reason: Escaping URL in last example

Thank-you for reporting this important issue.

Does ccbill test transaction actually add the test user to the user db? If yes, is there any possible reason why the username is not being added to the db?

You should have received a registration link after you completed checkout to sign up, and then be sent to register at /wp-login.php?action=register. Did you complete this step?

If you did, were you able to log in with the info you provided in this step?

Thank-you for your inquiry. ~ We appreciate your patience :-)

Please see my responses below.

Do you have a demo of the software that I can look at.

No, we do not have a demo of the software available yet. If you’d like to see how the back end of the software looks, you can check out our Videos.

Does the package come with source code?

Yes. The s2Member Framework, and s2Member Pro both come with full unlocked source code.

See: Pre Sale FAQs » If I purchase s2Member® Pro, will I still have access to the source code?

I need to write a custom payment gateway for eWay (Australia), do you provide a payment gateway template so I can do this? I don’t want to use PayPal at all.
I don’t want to auto-renew my members, I just want to send a renewal notice and have them login and make another payment to renew for another year. I also want to use the eWay payment gateway. Is this possible?

Integration with another payment gateway, like eWay is possible. s2Member Pro provides a detailed Codex to get you started with documentation for each payment gateway that is already integrated. The source code for each payment gateway is located under /s2member-pro/includes/classes/gateways/.

See: Pre Sale FAQs » Can I add support for other payment gateways?
See Also: s2Member® » Codex (Source Code Docs)

Do I have the ability to hook into validation routines to perform my own validation? I have certain membership levels where are age restricted. I also have certain membership levels which are country specific. Is it possible to program these into the system?

To integrate a new payment gateway, you will need to set up your own validation routines for each payment gateway, as each has it’s own. Therefore validating your new payment gateway based on age is possible in your case.

Does your system support sending emails to a customer after they have registered?
If so, can these emails be customised?

By default, WordPress sends emails to members on signup. s2Member has configuration options to change these emails. s2Member also comes with a set of emails that are sent when a user completes payment through each payment gateway.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Email Configuration

Am I able to customise emails for each level of membership (different email content for different levels of membership)?

Unfortunately this is currently not possible. I will put this in as a vote to add this in a future version of s2Member.

I need to programatically override the price that is charged to a user during the registration process. Do you provide hooks/filters to do this?

This is a little different for each payment gateway. For PayPal, you’d need to add a filter to ws_plugin__s2member_pro_paypal_checkout_post_attr.

See: s2Member® » Codex (Source Code Docs)
Filter located in: /s2member-pro/includes/classes/gateways/paypal/paypal-checkout-in.inc.php

Do you provide a hook in the software for after a customer has registered? I need to programatically update the expiry date of the registered user as all membership renewal dates will be at the same time of year. Or, does your plugin support this?

The way you handle this depends on what you’re changing the price based on. For greatest flexibility, you can use the ws_plugin__s2member_pro_paypal_checkout_post_attr filter here with PayPal.

Please let us know if you have any more questions/concerns. :-)

Thank-you for your inquiry.

It appears that the problem here is that you have a trial set up in your first shortcode just as you do for your other Pro Forms, only at no cost.

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form... ta="0" tp="1" tt="M" .../]

The above is saying that you want to give a trial for 1 (tp = trial period) month (tt = trial term) @ no cost (ta = trial amount).

You should change your shortcode to the following, which instead immediately starts recurring billing @ $79.00:

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="2" ccaps="" desc="$79.00 USD / Monthly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD"
dg="0" ns="1" custom="pursuitathleticperformance.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="M" ra="79.00" rp="1" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2"
accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /]

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

Please let us know if problems persist. :-)

Does s2Member always send out an email regardless of whether or not the user is redirected back to our site to register immediately after paying?

s2Member’s Emails are sent when s2Member processes PayPal’s IPN data, right after the user finishes checkout through PayPal. So any time that a user pays for access to your site through PayPal, and the the transaction requires an email to be sent, s2Member will send this email regardless of if the user has been sent back to your site yet or not.

Does that make sense?

Thank-you for your inquiry.

It sounds like what you’re running into here is that PayPal will not allow transactions to go through on an unverifyed PayPal account. This is a security feature of PayPal meant to keep people from making PayPal account under fake names, or put in false data into their PayPal accounts.

To get around this, you need to link your PayPal account with a bank account. You should be prompted to do this when you log in at http://paypal.com/.

After your PayPal account is verified, you should be able to perform transactions the same way you do on your main PayPal account.

Also how can I make possible that people can pay without registering a new paypal Account

You can do this by changing the accept_via_paypal attribute to include credit cards.

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

Thank-you for reporting this important issue.

It appears that this is caused by what you have set up within your accept and accept_via_paypal attributes. When you are using the output=”url” value, your users are always sent to PayPal, and so the accept parameter is not used.

Try instead using this:

<?php
$PlusFee = 49.95; // Enter subscription fee for Level 1 membership 
$PremFee = 79.95; // Enter subscription fee for Level 2 membership
$PlusDailyRate = .13685; // Enter daily rate based on level 1 subscription fee divided by 365
$PlusCredit = ((365 - S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS) * $PlusDailyRate);
$PremCharges = $PremFee - $PlusCredit; 
$PremCharges = round($PremCharges,2); //round off number to 2 decimal points
?>

<?php
if (S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ACCESS_LEVEL === 1){ ?>
	<?php if(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS >= 0){ ?>
<a href="&#91;&#91;s2Member-PayPal-Button level="2" ccaps="" desc="Prorated Upgrade from Plus to Premier membership for one year for $<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?>" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.domain.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?>" rp="1" rt="Y" rr="0" rrt="" rra="1" accept="paypal" accept_via_paypal="paypal,visa,mastercard" image="default" output="url" /]]"><center><img src="/images/upgrade_now_v2.gif" border="0" width="250px" height="160px"></center><div class="upgrade">for only $<?php echo esc_attr($PremCharges); ?></div></a><br>
	<?php } ?>
<?php } ?>

Thank-you for your reply.

I followed the link and used the code and it does auto-login the user, but I’m not gettting the redirect to the correct page, can you help me with that?

If you’re running s2Member Pro, you should be able to specify which page the user is redirected to within Pro Forms and PayPal buttons. This does not work when using the form available at /wp-login.php?action=register.

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