Cristián Lávaque

Hi Dimitrios.

You can change that label from here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› Registration Double Opt-In Box -> Double Opt-In Checkbox Label[/hilite].

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Brad.

I emailed Jason asking these.

Hi Dean.

Could you post the log entries for the transaction that had the problem? (x’ing out any private info, e.g. email address) [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Options -› Account Details -› Logging[/hilite]

It’d be good to test for a plugin conflict somewhere. You can do this deactivating other plugins one by one, and testing after each to see if the problem goes away.

Hi Geert.

No, s2Member doesn’t have a user approval feature. What you can do, though, is let him register at a level below the one the protected content is, and upgrade his account manually to that level after approving it.

I hope that helps. :)

Hi there.

1. Our sales page is an html page and not on wordpress. Can the paypal button generated by S2 or in Paypal be used outside the wordpress site on our sales page?

If yes, how? We have tried using your free version, it does not work.
If not, is it easily doable with some customization? How?

Shortcodes only work inside WordPress, but in an HTML page outside WordPress you can use a button created over at PayPal, integrated with s2Member so that it works to give the user the access he’s paying for. Knowledge Base » Using PayPal created buttons

2. We want to automatically keep track of ex subscribers. S2 cancels when a subscriber cancels, but does not keep track of the ex subscriber. This is needed for marketing to ex subscribers.

How can this be accomplished?

One work around is to demote the subscriber. However, when an ex subscriber comes back to resubscribe, he is not able to subscribe through paypal because his email is already in s2. Therefore this workaround does not work.

If it is not a standard feature to keep track of ex subscribers, can this be easily accomplished with customization? How?

Right, the user can be demoted to s2Member Level 0 (WP’s Subscriber role). If you don’t let free users register, then you’ll know that all users at that level were paying users before.

Demoted users can upgrade to the paying level again without needing to create a new account, as long as they click the PayPal upgrade button (generated with the shortcode for it in a WP page/post) while they’re logged in to their account. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Membership Level # Buttons[/hilite]

3.When a subsciber cancels, we want him to automatically receive an email asking for reason for cancellation.

Can this be done?

If it is not a standard feature , can this be easily accomplished with customization? How?

You could use the Cancellation Notification to run a script that will email the user. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Cancellation Notifications[/hilite]

4. We offer a trial that is limited to only one time. If a subscriber registers for the trial and they have previously taken a trial, we do not want him to have access to the site and send him an email asking him to subscribe from a NO TRIAL Link.

Can this be done?

If it is not a standard feature , can this be easily accomplished with customization? How?

Well, if you use a special button for demoted users, you can make that one not have the trial option. He can get around that limitation simply logging out and using the regular button for new customers, but then he’ll have to create a new account with another email address.

To avoid users abusing your trial, you’ll need to create some customization that keeps track of them. With cookies, for example, but they can still be removed from the browser or another browser could be used. You could also keep track by IP.

5. Do you offer customization? If yes, what is the cost for what we want?

If no, what dollar amount we should resonable expect to pay someone to do the foregoing customizaions? Is there someone you recommend?

No, we don’t give this service. We usually point to freelancer sites like jobs.wordpress.net, etc. I don’t know what they charge.

Here in the forums I know David Welch has done some jobs in the past, but I don’t know if he’s taking new ones.

6. Please comment on compatibility of customization specified here with future upgrades.

Future maintainance updates of s2Member should not be a problem with the above. In the future, when we release the new s2Member we’re currently developing, some updates may be needed on your customization, depending on what you have.

7. Is phone support available for extra fee? If no, what is the typical time to get an answer?

No, we don’t give phone support. We mostly answer questions in our Customers Forum within the first day they are made.

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Geert.

Customer A organises workshops. If written my own registration system (outside WP) for these workshops
– Can I automatically insert users into s2member with an api that I can integrate in my own registration system?
– Can I specify groups where the customer belongs to (with this api?)

The actual registration and account creation is handled by WordPress, but s2Member Pro does provide an API that makes user creation easier from another application. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API[/hilite]

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Here’s the example code from that documentation:
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/**/
$op["data"] = array (/**/
"user_login" => "johndoe22", /* Required. A unique Username. Lowercase alphanumerics/underscores. */
"user_email" => "johndoe22@example.com", /* Required. A valid/unique Email Address for the new User. */
"user_pass" => "456DkaIjsd!", /* Optional. Plain text Password. If empty, one will be generated. */
"first_name" => "John", /* Optional. First Name for the new User. */
"last_name" => "Doe", /* Optional. Last Name for the new User. */
"s2member_level" => "2", /* Optional. Defaults to Level #0 ( a Free Subscriber ). */
"s2member_ccaps" => "music,videos", /* Optional. Comma-delimited list of Custom Capabilities. */
"s2member_registration_ip" => "123.456.789.100", /* Optional. User's IP Address. If empty, s2Member will fill this upon first login. */
"s2member_subscr_gateway" => "paypal", /* Optional. User's Paid Subscr. Gateway Code. One of: (paypal|alipay|authnet|ccbill|clickbank|google). */
"s2member_subscr_id" => "I-DJASODJF8933J", /* Optional. User's Paid Subscr. ID. For PayPal®, use their Subscription ID, or Recurring Profile ID. */
"s2member_custom" => "example.com", /* Optional. If provided, should always start with your installation domain name ( i.e. $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] ). */
"s2member_auto_eot_time" => "2030-12-25", /* Optional. Can be any value that PHP's ``strtotime()`` function will understand ( i.e. YYYY-MM-DD ). */
"opt_in" => "1", /* Optional. A non-zero value tells s2Member to attempt to process List Servers that you've configured in the Dashboard area. */
"custom_fields" => array ("my_field_id" => "Some value."), /* Optional. An array of Custom Registration Field ID's, with associative values. */
"s2member_notes" => "Administrative notation. Created this User via API call.", /* Optional. Administrative notations. */
"notification" => "1", /* Optional. A non-zero value tells s2Member to email the new User/Member their Username/Password. */
/* The "notification" parameter also tells s2Member to notify the site Administrator about this new account. */
);
/**/
$result = trim (file_get_contents ("http://example.com/?s2member_pro_remote_op=1", false, stream_context_create (array ("http" => array ("method" => "POST", "header" => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "content" => "s2member_pro_remote_op=" . urlencode (serialize ($op)))))));
/**/
if (!empty ($result) && !preg_match ("/^Error\:/i", $result) && is_array ($user = @unserialize ($result)))
echo "Success. New User created with ID: " . $user["ID"];
else
echo "API error reads: " . $result;
?>
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Customer B want something more complicated. He runs an electronic goods store and sell both to DIY users and professionals.

– amateur and professional users should be able to subscribe to a newsletter. Amateur users only need to specify their e-mail adres and professional users should provide more info (VAT number, companyname, etc)
– professional users should be validated by the site admin (approve membership)
– professional users will receive an e-mail with a password that they can use to login to the website (part of it)

You can integrate s2Member’s levels with lists in services like MailChimp or AWeber. Video » s2Member (API List Servers)

s2Member doesn’t have an account approval process. What you could do, though, is let the professional user register to a level below where the professional content is, so he won’t be able to see it until an admin reviews his account and upgrades it manually from his profile.

I hope that helps. :)

I also tried creating the s2-hacks.php as per http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1604 and I received an error message about the header already being sent.

Make sure you don’t have spaces or line breaks outside the PHP tags. The very first and last things in your s2hacks.php file are [hilite mono][/hilite] respectively.

Can somebody please provide the actual code for displaying membership types in a dropdown? Somebody MUST have already done this.

Could you post the code you tried in the form and the hack, please? Thanks. :)

Mike, did you read this article? It may have something that helps in your case: Knowledge Base » JW Player sample code not working

Yeah, the bbPress integration is not very advanced and still needs more work.

About the search results, are they now not showing results for content the the user doesn’t have access to? If they still do after your change in the Alt View Restriction setting, then try using the query conditional on them. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced Query Conditionals[/hilite]

About restricting access to threads in boards of different levels, the URI restriction would work if you can edit their permalinks to have some indicator of what board the thread is in, like: /community/thread-subject or /customers/thread-subject, then you can restrict /community/ at level 0 and /customers/ at level 1.

I hope that helps. :)

Hey, that’s great! You’re welcome. Thanks for the update. :)

I was thinking that something like this in s2hacks.php would be enough:

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[/hilite]

And it’s possible that it may be better to not use [hilite mono]$_GET[/hilite] to avoid someone giving a different value for in the URL.

Ah okay. But was it the New User email that WP has or the one customized by s2Member?

Anyway, it’s a good thing that you can edit the email, so it’s not the same as other people’s.

And what solution did you find for the “from” header configuration?

Great! Glad you found the problem. Thanks for the update. :)

That’s great to know. Thanks for the update. :)

I’ll let Jason know your observation about the description, too.

Thanks!