Cristián Lávaque

Express Checkout is a free service and it will still require the customer to login to his PayPal account for subscriptions.

To not require a PayPal account, you’ll need the Enhanced Recurring Payments service for your PayPal Standard account, or PayPal Pro (PayFlow Edition) with the Recurring Billing service. http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2634

2. PayPal® Standard + ERP ( Enhanced Recurring Payments ) = $19.99/mo.
* Note * In the UK, ERP ( Enhanced Recurring Payments ) is called: Premium Services.
– Customer checks out @ PayPal® ( NOT on your site )
– Same as PayPal® Standard, except…
Customers are NO longer required to have a PayPal® account ( ever ), even for Subscriptions.

3. PayPal® Pro ( $30/mo + optional Recurring Billing service ) = $60/mo total.
This allows you to keep Customers on your site throughout the entire checkout process. You can accept Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover, Maestro, Solo, and ALSO offer PayPal® as an option to those who prefer to pay with PayPal®.

I think you shoud contact PayPal to ask them about these services and get for your account the one you prefer to use.

Hi Brett.

Well, there may be a conflict with s2Member, since s2Member also lets you edit the New User email. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Email Configuration -> New User[/hilite]

This article may help: Knowledge Base » Troubleshooting Email Delivery Problems

Also, did you check if this problem is related to the one you posted about in your other thread? http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/custom-capabilities-stopped-working-recently/

Hi Nick.

The regular term can’t be missing in subscriptions or buy-now transactions. You can skip the initial/trial term for subscriptions if you want.

If you want to give lifetime access for a one-time payment, then the attributes for the PayPal button shortcode would look like this: [hilite code]rp="1" rt="L" rr="BN"[/hilite].

I hope that helps. :)

Awesome, Allan! Thanks for the update. We’re glad you got it working. :D

Hi Matt.

s2Member doesn’t send reminders for coming payments to the subscribers yet, even if they paid online instead of offline. This is something that will be added in the coming months when the new s2Member being developed gets released.

Having said that, you can add users to a mailing list with a sequence of emails that reminds them of coming payments when they are almost up. You can use the List Server API to integrate with MailChimp, for example. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› MailChimp®[/hilite]

Since users would be paying by check, there is no gateway IPN that would notify s2Member about lack of payment in order to know whether to stop the access or not. You’d have to change those users’ access manually from their profiles, or the users list.

I hope that answers the question. Please let us know if you have others. :)

GT Drummie said:
Does this mean that there is no way for a user to end their subscription… the user would have to send an email to have the admin do it?

Yes, if he paid on the gateway’s site, he can go there and manage his subscription. s2Member provides a shortcode for a cancellation button for the gateways it integrates with, which takes the person to the gateway to manage the subscription and cancel it. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Cancellation Buttons[/hilite]

If you used the pro-forms to get paid on your site (PayPal Pro or Authorize.Net integration), then he’ll need to use the Cancellation pro-form, which you have to make available to him. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Cancellation Forms[/hilite]

Yes, this is available in the free version. This video explains custom capabilities quite well:

Hi Kevin.

I’m sorry you were bothered by his answer. We don’t think you’re stupid for wanting that. I agree that a single sign-on feature between sites in a multisite network makes a lot of sense, if I were setting up a network I’d look into how to achieve it myself.

It’s just that there isn’t much we can do about this limitation. It’s one imposed by WordPress itself and s2Member is not designed to touch it. We’re not familiat with the plugins that would let you do it, so we can’t give information about what they do or don’t. :/

My best advice in this regard would be to contact the developers of the plugins that are already working on how to alter this part of WordPress, since they’ll be the most experienced in it and probably already have a good solution for you, or can come up with a decent one.

I hope that helps!

lol yeah, it has a curve, but you’ve done great so far. I gave you the “Advanced” user badge. :)

Thanks for the update on what you reported as a bug earlier, glad you found what was causing it for you.

About your level role question, I think I had already answered it in my previous post without knowing you’d ask.

I figured out how to hack it to do exactly what i needed for concurent subscriptions

So you did it? Nice job!! :D

What was your solution in the end?

By the way, if you had to modify the s2Member files instead of using hooks, I recommend that you move those files to the must-use plugins folder (wp-content/mu-plugins) so they aren’t overwritting when you update s2Member.

I’m glad it’s helped you make progress. :)

About the EOT and what access to remove based on the subscription ended, well, s2Member doesn’t currently worry about what the subscription gives access to or not, since on demotion it just removes everything, ccaps and level, down to just Subscriber role.

So in order to keep one subscription’s access and remove the other, you’ll need to add somewhere, what access each of your subscriptions gives.

If you use your CB item number to match a ccap used for access, then it’d be simple. E.g. CB item 1 gives ccap 1, then it’s simple to remove the access. But if you have a more complex access setup, then you’ll need to have it defined somewhere in order to know what access to remove from the user’s account on EOT.

You could also match it to a level number, but then you’d have to modify the s2Member Level roles, since they give incremental access, e.g. Level 2 also gives access to Level 1 content.

To remove the incremental access, you’d have to edit Level 2 to remove the WP capability [hilite mono]access_s2member_level1[/hilite]. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

If you edit the roles, you’ll want to lock them so they aren’t reset on update. Knowledge Base » Locking s2Member Roles/Capabilities

To remove the particular role or ccaps in your custom demotions, this may be helpful: Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

About ccaps, they’re actually WP capabilities given to a specific user, not to a role. In the s2Member interface they’d just be the string you give them, but in reality the have the prefix [hilite mono]access_s2member_ccap_[/hilite], so keep that in mind when you work with them.

1) Can you tell me why this is needed in every class
[hilite code]eval (‘foreach(array_keys(get_defined_vars())as$__v)$__refs[$__v]=&$$__v;’);[/hilite]

That line is before the action hooks. It prepares all the vars available at that point of the script, to pass them in the action hook, so they’re available to your hack if you need them.

2) In registrations.inc.php
[hilite mono]ms_validate_user_signup()[/hilite]

Is this used to validate the transients ? Cause i see ms_ (multi site) and then non ms_ functions
my install is not MS – so i just want to verify that im working with the right functions

You won’t use that ms_ method. From the documentation right above the method:

* Filters Multisite User validation.
*
* This can ONLY be fired through `/wp-signup.php` on the front-side.
* 	Or through `/register` via BuddyPress.

* @attaches-to ``add_filter("wpmu_validate_user_signup");``

I hope it helps!

Let me clarify something: s2Member doesn’t integrate with PayFlow Pro yet, it integrates with PayPal Pro (PayFlow Edition). I know it can be confusing because the geniuses over at PayPal chose the names so well.

What do you have? PayPal Pro (PayFlow Edition) or PayFlow Pro?

Here’s a video that shows how to configure s2Member integration with the PayFlow API if you have a PayPal Pro (PayFlow Edition) account.

Let me know if that helps.

The PayPal services that s2Member integrates with do support subscriptions (recurring payments). For some, like PayPal Standard or Express Checkout, the user would be required to login to his PayPal account, though, unless you upgraded your account with their recurring payments service (has different names depending on the country, I think).

I just looked up PayPal Business Account and it says it supports recurring payments:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/personal_vs_business-outside#special
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/subscription-outside

Can Google checkout accept subscription payments with customer credit cards ?

I’m not sure, since I’ve never used it before or had to help someone with it. I looked it up in Google to see if users could pay a subscription with just the card, without having to login, and couldn’t find a definite answer for it.

I went to the Google Checkout page and it seems to have now changed to Google Wallet, and users seem to need a Wallet account with their cards in it to make payments, no mention is made of paying without a Wallet account. http://www.google.com/wallet/faq.html#online

I’m gonna check with Jason about this.

Hi Simon.

Yes, you can do subscriptions with Google Checkout, and they can be different ones. The limitation is that accounts can only have one subscription at a time, no multiple subscriptions for the same account.

The new s2Member we’re developing will make multiple concurrent subscriptions possible, but we don’t have a release date yet.

I hope that answers the question. :)