Bruce

Hi Desmond,

Sounds like you were still logged in to your site when you created the user.

Try logging out before going to checkout to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Also, don’t use the same email address as is linked with your Admin account.

Quick question though. How come you say it’s not designed to be an affiliate system when this is on the main site:

The s2Member® Framework is an extremely versatile & powerful (free) membership management plugin for WordPress®. The s2Member® Framework plugin integrates seamlessly with PayPal® Standard Buttons (very easy), and fully supports recurring billing, with the ability to track affiliate commissions on a recurring basis (through your choice of many affiliate platforms).

s2Member provides the ability to set up an affiliate system through Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Tracking. However s2Member is not, in itself, an affiliate program. This needs to be set up separately from s2Member.

So I get that it’s external but the s2member part would be where people sign up under people right? And I’m not paying people anything then it should work if a coder did it.

Are I right?

s2Member will be able to sign users up, and provide access restriction. However, you’ll need to set up external functionality to have users under other users, and populate fields so that s2Member can provide access restrictions.

Hi Ganaxi,

How does s2 deal with changing membership fees. That is, if I offer it for $50/qtr, and then after a while change it to $60/qtr or $40/qtr, how much will the pre-change subscribers be charged when their subscription comes up for renewal after the change in rates.

If users signed up with a PayPal subscription, which is auto-recurring, the subscription amount that was set up when they signed up will be used. If, however, they cancel and have to sign back up, the new rate will be applied.

This is because s2Member only creates the form to send to PayPal to start the transaction. PayPal just uses the info on a per-click basis to set the price.

Hi Scott,

If i change the default role to something higher, and then limit the access I need with Adminimize, will s2 member honor this?

This should work correctly, as s2Member does not natively support admin access, and none of s2Member’s roles allow access to anything that you might not want users to be able to access.

However, instead of changing the default user role completely, you may just want to add permissions to do what you want to the s2Member levels that you have set up. This way you won’t run into any issues in the future with Content Dripping, or using conditionals.

Also, you’ll want to disable the admin redirect if you want users to be able to access /wp-admin/. There’s info in this post about how you can do that.

Other question is I have free reg. set up, when I login using front end widget, clicking the “My Account” link does nothing. Is that because its currently free and no payments were made or is something not working?

The My Account link should still work, even if you’re only using free subscriptions. It uses the url set up in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Login Welcome Page. Please ensure that your Login Welcome Page is set up correctly.

Hi Tom,

Unfortunately the s2Member/PayPal setup requires a PayPal account for recurring billing, no matter what. I’m unsure if there is a known workaround. I’ll ask our dev team if they have any solutions for you.

Hi Marc,

That’s interesting. It sounds like something happened with your bbPress setup that caused your user’s permissions to get screwed somehow.

I did a bit of searching, and it looks like this has happened to some users of bbPress in the past. They recommend downloading this plugin, and using it’s repair feature to fix your WordPress database.

Hi Brian,

The iDevAffiliate idev_ordernum="" should be filled with %%subscr_id%%, as per the documentation in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Tracking -› Integrating iDevAffiliate®.

If you’re having issues setting up iDevAffiliate with s2Member, try watching this video: Video » s2Member (iDevAffiliate Integration)

Hi Rick,

No, that’s not supposed to be there. just a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

Hi Tony,

I’ll send this to the development team to look at changing. In the mean time, you might want to force the values to 0 by using the following lines:

update_user_option($user_id, "s2member_file_download_access_log", array(false));
update_user_option($user_id, "s2member_file_download_access_arc", array(false));

You should be able to hook into s2Member’s PayPal processes like this:

This is very possible with s2Member.

2. Can a notification be sent before the account expires, so they will be able to subscribe before they hit their EOT and lose access?

I believe I answered this one of your other posts. This is possible using this post:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/setting-up-eot-notifications/

3. I know the Buy-Now buttons can extend the EOT date by the time purchased, but can subscriptions? In other words, if they subscribe via Paypal a month before their EOT date, will their subscription start on that date or on the EOT date?

You can use modification forms for this, but you’ll want to put a bit of dynamic code in here to ensure that this works correctly. See: Knowledge Base » Using variables in a shortcode

That’s the problem the plugin wasn’t made for sell eCards just give a free access to send them. So I have to manage to restrict the page from unregistered and unpaid visitor.

This seems like a good time to use custom capabilities. You will have to set up this custom code, though.

Glad to hear you got this resolved.