Cristián Lávaque

Hi Alan.

1. Is there a way have auto-login AND notifications at the same time? Any leads I should investigate?

No, that hack has that problem. What you could try is, instead, use the [hilite mono]success[/hilite] attribute in your shortcode pointing to a page, where you then have a hack to log him in and redirect him to the page you want.

2. Is there a chart somewhere that lays out which notification and tracking will be hit for a particular action. For example, a table with all the notifications and tracking triggers in the first row, user events like registration and payment on the first column, then true/false in the table indicating whether the given user event will trip the given trigger. This would be enormously helpful in understanding if I am seeing expected behavior or if something is wrong.

No, there isn’t a chart like that… But if you read the documentation for each notification, they say when they’d happen.

The payment notification should happen everytime a payment happens that’s tied to s2Member, e.g.: new paying user, recurring payment, upgrade. The registration one happens when there’s a registration, paid or free. The signup one happens when there’s a paid registration. And so on… [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications[/hilite]

This video may help: Video » s2Member (API Tracking/Notifications)

I thought that if a user signed up and paid in one go then both notifications would be hit?

When there’s a paid registration, all should happen: signup, payment and registration. (Not sure about the order, though.)

The additional info could be done with the custom profile fields. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

But to have max number of events or times a year, you’d have to customize with your own code and conditionals.

Payment doesn’t have to be online to use s2Member, but you will need to enter the info for s2Member manually.

Now, s2Member manages access, so if you won’t give/restrict access to content on your site based on what they paid, there’s no point in using it.

And an event manager may be better, I don’t know, haven’t used, but it’s more related to what you’ll do.

Hi Tony.

Hi: When I create buttons in S2Member to link to Paypal, I copy and paste the code to the site page, and most of the time, when the user clicks on them, they go to Paypal and get an error.

Could you paste here the code you’re using? Put it inside HTML [hilite mono]<[/hilite][hilite mono]code><[/hilite][hilite mono]/code>[/hilite] tags, please. Thanks!

Also, make sure you have logging enabled, and see if you get any entries for these failed attempts, which is unlikely if you didn’t go very far, but still worth checking. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -› Logging[/hilite]

By the way, in your pro-form, when I selected one of the cards, the fields for it were not shown. Only the Solo card had them show, but I wonder if you have that card available in your country. Anyway, you may be having a JS problem there, and I’d test if the theme or another plugin is causing it. Could you try the suggestions in this article for those? Knowledge Base » Common Troubleshooting Tips

Could you please show me screenshots of your pro-form tests, together with the shortcode for each?

In one of the latest releases, there was a change so that the payment method didn’t have to be selected if PayPal was the only option. Maybe that’s what you’re seeing different? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/changelog/

(s2Member Pro) Feature Enhancement. s2Member Pro Forms integrated ONLY with PayPal Express Checkout (accept=”paypal” accept_via_paypal=”paypal”), will no longer display a Billing Method section on the Pro Form, as it’s not necessary (there’s only one possible option in this case, and it’s already depicted by the PayPal button at the bottom of the Pro Form). Many site owners had implemented CSS hacks to hide this section of a Pro Form configured this way, based on this FAQ article. This hack is no longer necessary – starting with this release.

Hi Johnny.

That could be done. You may need a two-step process. In the first step the person chooses the tier and, if he can choose, what options. Submitting that would take him to the second step, which would be the pro-form/button, generated based on his previous choice. This article may help: Knowledge Base » Using variables in a shortcode

Also want if Jane Doe wants C,E then wants A,F later…

You could sell an upgrade to Pro that’d include them and all the rest, or you could sell the additional ccaps to be added to his current ones, using an Individual Capability pro-form or button.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms[/hilite]
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Capability (Buy Now) Buttons[/hilite]

I hope that helps. :)

One thing we also did was set up a form for members before S2 so they could get six months free. If any of our members signed up on the normal form before we made that, is there anyway we could switch them over so they still get the six months free? Or do they need to unsubscribe and use the promo form?

You could check up to what user ID they had before you implemented s2Member, and if the user is logged in and his ID is lower than that, then add the 6 month trial to the shortcode for the PayPal button/pro-form. Knowledge Base » Using variables in a shortcode

The code is missing from your post, could you post it again, this time inside HTML code tags? [hilite mono]<[/hilite][hilite mono]code><[/hilite][hilite mono]/code>[/hilite] Thanks. :)

Hi Mark.

There are plans to log better the transactions information in order to provide purchase reports to the customers, but we haven’t talked much about forcasts and such for the admin. With more data stored, it’ll be easier to create all kinds of reports, but we may not provide them all ourselves, just make it possible for site owners to do. Feel free to create it and we’ll be happy to point users to it if they ask for something of the sort.

Regarding policies, just follow the GPL license, give credit where appropriate, and state that you’re not affiliated to WebSharks Inc. I’ll ask Jason if there’s anything else.

I’ve made private plugins for my own s2member installation so I know how developer friendly it is

Thanks for the kudos! :)

Hi Todd.

Could you try again, please? I think there may have been a problem with the pro-form and Jason may have fixed it since your report.

Let us know how it goes! :)

Hi Opus. Did you try all the suggestions in this article? Knowledge Base » Common Troubleshooting Tips

Could you please post here the log entries for the transaction with the problem? x’ing out any private info.

What payment gateway are you using? PayPal? If so, is it PayPal Pro? Is it the PayFlow Edition? If so, did you enter the PayFlow credentials? [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayFlow[/hilite]

Hi David.

I don’t know how to require them to do that… You’d need to search for a plugin that does it and doesn’t conflict with s2Member. What is the redirection loop that you described? From what URL to what other URL, etc?

Thanks for the explanation.

Well, you could do that without using do_shortcode. Actually, if I’m not mistaken, you could just echo the shortcode and WP will parse it. I know for sure you can echo values for the shortcode attributes with PHP. Knowledge Base » Using variables in a shortcode

figure out the ccaps for each (ex. ccaps=”joey,stu,susan”)

It’s fine if you do this step to find out how many adoptions he’ll have in total to calculate the new subscription amount. You don’t need to add the ccaps he already has to the ccaps attribute, since what you put there will be added to whichever he already has. So if you just have [hilite mono]ccaps="kirk"[/hilite], he’d end up with joey, stu, susan and kirk.

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You can try those, but did you test if the modification button works when using the shortcode normally?