Cristián Lávaque

Hi Phil.

Try encoding the URL to the thank-you page. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

http://ballisticpitching.com/?s2member_pro_clickbank_return=1&s2member_pro_clickbank_return_success=http%3A%2F%2Fballisticpitching.com%2Fthank-you%2F

About the user level, do you have Open Registration enabled? If so, disable it during tests to make sure that you can only register because the transaction went well and s2Member set the cookie or you used the access link in the Signup Confirmation email. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Open Registration[/hilite]

Enable logging, log out of your admin account, reload the salespage, and place a test order with the card ClickBank gives you so you get the transaction logged. I’d like to look at the log entries from it, please submit your site’s info. Let me know when you sent it. Thanks! s2Member® » Private Contact Form

You can give them any of the s2Member levels when you create their accounts.

About being sent to the Membership Options page: What restriction did the page they tried to open have? What level did the user have? Was he logged in to his account?

Right. The one that says “sp” is the Specific Post/Page access one. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Pro Forms -› Specific Post/Page (Buy Now) Forms[/hilite]

Ah, that’s probably because there are a couple of newlines ([hilite mono]\n[/hilite]) here: s2member-pro\includes\classes\remote-ops-in.inc.php

[hilite pre_code]
update_user_option($user->ID, "s2member_notes", trim(get_user_option("s2member_notes", $user->ID)."\n\n".(string)$op["data"]["s2member_notes"]));
[/hilite]

Thanks for the update. I’m glad you solved it. :)

Thanks.

In the IPN log I see this:

2 => ‘Unable to verify `$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”]`. Please check the `custom` value in your Button Code. It MUST start with your domain name.’,

But the button shortcode seems fine in the salespage. Do you have other buttons that aren’t created with the s2Member shortcode?

The CB account pass was wrong, but the other one you sent worked. The CB API key is set to read/write, but should be just read according to the setting in s2Member. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ClickBank® Options -› Account Details -> API key[/hilite]

Make sure you use one of those shortcode buttons to test, and that you’re logged out of your account when you load the salespage to test. Let me know if the read access change to the API key helps.

1. As I see it now, I think I should be able to do everything I want to do, using only Custom Capabilities and PHP Conditionals, not even bothering to do anything at a post-level nor even in Post Access Restrictions, right?

You’ll need levels for subscriptions, ccaps can only be sold with buy-nows.

2. One of the things I’m not quite clear about, is when to use /mu-plugins/some-file.php or my theme’s functions.php… Could you clarify that for me?

I just use must-use plugins, since they load sooner and are independent of the theme. Not sure if functions.php has an advantage, though.

Yes, I had the login info.

I see in the IPN log an error from over a week ago:

2 => ‘Unable to verify `$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”]`. Please check the `custom` value in your Button Code. It MUST start with your domain name.’,

But don’t see it happen again, so I’m guessing you fixed that already.

The latest entries don’t show errors. The very last one is a subscription, but by an existing user, so there’s no signup confirmation email sent, since that’s only sent for new paid signups.

What was the transaction that you say had the problem recently so I look for it specifically in the logs?

I’m glad the formatting was all it took to make it work. Thanks for the update. :)

1. Is there a way to import new users and specify the ID number? For instance:

No, the WP ID is generated automatically, you can’t assign it when creating the user with the Import tool. For the member ID of your organization, I think it’d be best to have a custom profile field independent of the WP user management. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

Of course you could go and edit the database to change the user IDs to match the member ID, but I think it’d be best to keep them separate.

2. When I import these users, WP will set the registration date to the date of import, but of course each will have paid their annual fee before this time. I will need to store the membership expiry dates such that the user/member will be prompted to renew a month before expiry. Do I need to set the “Automatic EOT Time:” for this, and if so how can I set up automatic renewal prompts with links to Paypal?

There’s a column for the registartion date in the CSV, so you can set it there. The EOT time can be set too, but then it’ll ignore any subscription notifications from the payment gateway, if you have those. If you tie the profile to a gateway subscription, it’ll be best to leave the EOT time empty so it’s set when the gateway says the subscription ended.

3. Are there examples in the Codex or Forum of other web administrators who’ve had to import existing members and how they’ve gone about it?

This article: Knowledge Base » How to Migrate to s2Member Pro from Other Software

Posts by site owners about this may be in the forums, but I don’t remember any particular one that gives a step by step beyond what we’ve covered here already. If you have more questions, I’ll be happy to answer them as I can.

Ah, sorry, silly me, I forgot you are using ClickBank. Here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ClickBank® Options -› Thank-You Page Integration -> Customizations[/hilite]

And you’ll find this useful to encode the thank-you page’s URL for the [hilite mono]s2member_pro_clickbank_return_success[/hilite] variable: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

Or I should probably clearify:

It works with the buttons generated by s2member.com. But I also want the regular IPN from paypal to work. So if I receive payments in any other way it creates the correct membership at my site.

When you use buttons not created with the s2Member shortcode for them, you need to add some values that s2Member needs. This article should help you with that: Knowledge Base » Using Buttons Generated @ PayPal.com

Right, you’d use ccaps for the modules and a level for the subscription.

To do the combinations you want, you’ll need to use conditionals in the content instead of the level/ccap restrictions. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals[/hilite]

You can use the success attribute to show them your own custom thank-you page.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Custom Return URLs Upon Success[/hilite]
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes -> success[/hilite]