Cristián Lávaque

Hi Andrea.

1) Does S2 work with Thesis themes?

A user recently reported he’s using Thesis without problems. http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/thesis-themes-version-2-02/#post-34187

2) Are there any issues with later integrating a shopping cart (or any advice about this)?

Not that I know of, and it’d depend on the cart, I guess.

If you’ll use PayPal for the cart and s2Member, it’s not a problem if you use PayPal Standard buttons, but it wouldn’t work with pro-forms. The cart will need the IPN URL for it in PayPal, but s2Member doesn’t require it for PayPal Standard buttons because it can set the IPN URL on a transaction basis. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® IPN Integration -> More Info[/hilite]

The pro-forms require the IPN URL in the PayPal settings, to be s2Member’s, so it’d be a problem with a cart that requires the same. In that case, you’d probably need a custom script for the IPN URL, that’d forward to the cart or s2Member, I guess.

3)Will S2 do incremental content delivery?

Not s2Member itself, but you can can use conditionals to do it, checking some variables that s2Member makes available. Please read this: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping[/hilite]

4) Will I be able to import my current email list, being run on Mad Mimi?

s2Member Pro has a User Import tool that you can use, yes. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export -› User/Member Importation[/hilite]

s2Member doesn’t come with a Mad Mimi integration, though, but you could create one using the Notifications API. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› Other Integration Methods[/hilite]

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I hope that helps. :)

Hmm… no, it’ll go there. You can set a URL instead of a page. Not sure if that’ll help in your case, though. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Login Welcome Page -> Special Redirection URL[/hilite]

You could create a hack with the [hilite mono]"ws_plugin__s2member_login_redirect"[/hilite] filter to change it dynamically, though.

Hi Mike.

So they have running subscriptions on Authorize.Net? I think you can just enter, in their profiles, Authorize.Net as the payment gateway, and then fill out the user’s subscr. ID.

Leave the EOT time blank, that’ll be populated by s2Member when Authorize.Net notifies it the subscription ended.

Make sure you configure the integration with Authorize.Net too. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Options[/hilite]

Hi Leo.

So you changed s2Member from one PayPal account to another? This will most likely cause trouble with existing subscribers you created with the former PayPal account.

About the confirmation, something may have gone wrong during the transaction. Could you post the related entries from the log files? (x’ing out any private info) [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -› Logging[/hilite]

If you’re using the Sandbox, no emails will be sent. Thought I’d mention it in case you’re testing with that.

This will get them six months free and they won’t have to pay again right?

That’ll give them 6 months free, then they’ll be charge $69.99 and again after each year. For it to just be a single payment, change [hilite mono]rr[/hilite] to 0: [hilite mono]rr="0"[/hilite]. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes rr[/hilite]

If I use the Billing Modifications Form, will that charge them again if they’ve already paid the year fee? Some of them have paid the year fee, and I don’t want to charge them again for a year in six months if they’ve paid for the year already?

The subscription would be reset, so you have to use the trial period to give the user the paid time he’s got left before making the new charge.

If you know it’s 6 months, you can enter it as you did in the shortcode, but if it’ll be varying depending on the user or something else, you’ll need to use some PHP to calculate it dynamically. Knowledge Base » Using variables in a shortcode

Also we are still getting tons of emails that when people go to sign up it says thier email is already in use and I’m not sure what that means or how to fix it??

They need to be logged in when they load the page with the shortcode, or the payment will go towards a new account instead of the existing one. So after checkout, if he was logged out, the user is invited to register an account, and when they try this and use the same email address as they did for the existing account, they get that error.

Yes, I’m generating the key in page using php.

The code you posted is incomplete. Is that the way you have it or did it get altered when you posted it? Make sure you post it inside HTML code tags so it comes out correctly, please.

*I’ve sent you access just in case it helps.

I didn’t receive it. Could you re-send it, please? Thanks. :)

Thank you, I received it. I looked at your Signup Tracking and it looks okay, so I don’t know why the replacement code was not replaced with the email address…

Have you tried the troubleshooting tips in this article? Knowledge Base » Common Troubleshooting Tips. Please do so if you haven’t yet.

Also, could you try the Signup Notification? Instead of using the HTML img tag, just copy the URL from it and paste it in the Signup Notification box, and test again. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Signup Notifications[/hilite]

Thanks. :)

You may notice that I removed the accept=”paypal, etc” statement and replaced it with the accept_via_paypal=”paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro” statement.

I recommend that you try this [hilite mono]accept="paypal" accept_via_paypal="paypal"[/hilite] so the shortcode would be:

[[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="2" ccaps="" desc="Uden abonnement / 59,- for 30 døgn" ps="XXXX" lc="" cc="DKK" dg="0" ns="1" custom="XXXXXX" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="59" rp="1" rt="M" rr="0" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal" accept_via_paypal="paypal" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="DK" captcha="0" /]]

So, my solution is a subscription info page, where i have created custom buttons that sends the client onwards to another payment page like this that hosts the actual pro forms (this is because i am using several s2 member levels depending on the subscription they want, and having 3 pro forms on 1 page looks absolutely horrible).

That solution was correct, that’s how we do it here in the Prices page too, not because of how multiple pro-forms in the same page look, but because they won’t work.

As you can also see in my accept_via_paypal statement, I have NO solo statement, and I am wondering WHY its showing. I would like to get assistance asap on that matter, as I believe its a shortcode error caused by not having the accept=”” statement included in my shortcode?!

Probably due to the JavaScript conflict I mentioned you seem to have, which I noticed because the form doesn’t behave as expected when selecting the other cards. Please do the theme and plugins tests mentioned in this article to find which one is introducing the JS problem: Knowledge Base » Common Troubleshooting Tips.

I didnt read anywhere, when i bought this software that Paypal Pro is only supported by U.S. PayPal customers.

http://www.s2member.com/pro/#s2-features-paypal-pro

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PayPal® Pro on-site credit card processing. Fully integrated with PayPal® Pro through PayPal® Pro APIs, including PayPal’s Recurring Billing API (highly recommended). Most popular for s2Member®. Available to merchants in these countries (as documented by PayPal®).
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I did how ever read that you, even though you have a “no questions asked” return policy if not happy with the product – you state that you do not refund digital goods etc.

We don’t have a “no questions asked” refund policy, could you point me to where you read that? This is our refund policy: s2Member® » Terms » Refund Policy.

Which means im pretty much screwed untill you develop s2member pro to work with the rest of the globe :) – Which you should, cause its pretty dumb not to.. Youre losing the money you didnt earn, and why? You have already proved with S2member Pro that you have the necessary skills to develop it, so there is actually no reason NOT to! Im looking forward to being able to use S2member with Paypal Website Payments!

Thanks for the suggestion. We are working on making more payment gateways available for the rest of the world, but don’t have a release date for it. For now, though, like you said, Express Checkout is an option you can use.

I just tried it and, although it should have, it didn’t work for me either. I don’t know why, so I’m emailing Jason to ask him about it. I’ll let you know when he replies.

That’s excellent! Thanks for confirming it. :)

Thanks for the update, Andrew.

The button in s2Member’s integration panel for bbPress, was added recently to deal with a big change bbPress introduced in the way they use roles and capabilities. http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/dont-upgrade-to-bbpress-2-2/#post-32523

We are not aware of it causing the problem you reported so, if you could describe the sequence of things you did that led to that problem, we’d be happy to try reproducing it in order to determine if there’s a bug we need to fix.

I’m notifying Jason of this thread, so he can take a look at what you’re reporting.

William,

I then manually added a test new member which DID NOT get added to MailChimp.

Also, I’m testing my MailChimp integration via a manual user addition. Is there any reason this shouldn’t work as well as adding a member through the on-site member pay and join form?

Could you test creating the user registering the account as a user, instead of adding him as the admin?

And for a user you already created, you can edit the profile, check the box for “Re-process List Servers” and save.