Cristián Lávaque

Also, running Apache 2 or LiteSpeed.

That’s a great suggestion. Thanks a lot! :)

Ah, got ya.

Yeah, this should be in the coming major release, probably in a month or so. No set date yet, just an estimate. :)

Hello Alissa.

Yes, logs would be very helpful. If you could please quote here the related log entries from all the log files, x’ing out any private info (e.g. emails), that’d be great.

About cancellations, if the user still has some time left in what he paid, he’ll keep having access until that runs out. Have these people cancelled long ago and still have access or did it just happen?

*Some Hairy Details* There might be times whenever you notice that a Member’s Subscription has been cancelled through PayPal®… but, s2Member continues allowing the User access to your site as a paid Member. Please don’t be confused by this… in 99.9% of these cases, the reason for this is legitimate. s2Member will only remove the User’s Membership privileges when an EOT ( End Of Term ) is processed, a refund occurs, a chargeback occurs, or when a cancellation occurs – which would later result in a delayed Auto-EOT by s2Member.

s2Member will not process an EOT until the User has completely used up the time they paid for. In other words, if a User signs up for a monthly Subscription on Jan 1st, and then cancels their Subscription on Jan 15th; technically, they should still be allowed to access the site for another 15 days, and then on Feb 1st, the time they paid for has completely elapsed. At that time, s2Member will remove their Membership privileges; by either demoting them to a Free Subscriber, or deleting their account from the system ( based on your configuration ). s2Member also calculates one extra day ( 24 hours ) into its equation, just to make sure access is not removed sooner than a Customer might expect.

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Terry.

I looked at your button and the code for it shows the Hyper Focus SEO name correctly:

<input type="hidden" value="Hyper-Focus-SEO" name="item_name"/>

Then clicked the button, was taken to PayPal, and the description said it properly, no errors.

Had you already fixed the problem when using “SEO” in the description?

Before trying that, I was going to suggest checking for a plugin that may have been filtering your page’s body, maybe replacing some words (e.g. “SEO”), for whatever reason (e.g. linking).

By the way, I suggest you encrypt your buttons. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -> Enable Button Encryption[/hilite]

I hope that helps. :)

Hello James.

What do you mean by Level1/Level2 affiliate system? Do you mean 2-tiered affiliate program?

Automatica upgrades could be possible with a little customization. You could use a conditional to check how long it’s been and if long enough, upgrade him with PHP.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping[/hilite]
Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

Here are some videos on s2Member’s PayPal buttons:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDBE4EF318D9A578E
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3E3A90C6164262F5

I hope that helps. :)

Hello Tony.

You can look at most shortcodes in the free version of s2Member. The ones missing there would be the pro-form ones, but they go very much along the lines of the button ones.

You can use PHP variables in the shortcode attributes, too, if you needed to modify the form/button dynamically. http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1604

By the way, for the existing members you’d like to give a free upgrade to, you can just go to their profile page and change their Level manually from there.

Actually (and I think I’m not mistaken, Jason will correct me if so), you can use a regular button for Level 2 and whatever leve the user has, as long as he’s logged in to his account when he clicks the button and pays, his account will be upgraded.

I hope that helps. :)

Thanks for the kudos.

Yes, you can protect the sales page at Level 1, and after reviewing the user and approving him, manually upgrade his account from Level 0 to 1 and point him to the page to pay. Only those accounts you gave Level 1 to will be able to see it.

I hope that helps.

Oh ok, they are custom fields you created. Could you please show me screenshots of the panels for them, to see how you defined them, please. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

Thanks for the update, Ryan. Glad you solved it. :)

Adam, they’re right. You’d use the success attribute in the shortcode for the pro-form.or button.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) -> success[/hilite]
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Custom Return URLs Upon Success[/hilite]

Cassel.

I remember some months ago, having sent you an email with some instructions for a hack to use coupons with the buttons.

Do you still have it or want me to resend it?

Can I accomplish this? I have gone through some of the video tutorials and can see that I can create multiple membership levels. But what I need to do is to let people pay for individual sections of the membership site, rather than different access levels.

Hello Joel.

Sure, that’s very possible using custom capabilities. Here’s a video that explains them:

I hope that helps. :)