Cristián Lávaque

Hi Ian.

I’ll add some comments to what Cassel kindly replied.

1) Only one subscription can be associated with a member – typically at the member level

Right, subscriptions can only be sold for levels, ccaps can only be sold with buy-now transactions. You could sell the ccaps together with a level, in which case you could say the subscription pays the ccaps, even if you’re actually using the level to do it.

3) If a ccap is associated with a level as long as you are a member of that level you can access it – when membership level expires so does access to ccap – any and all ccaps at that level

ccaps aren’t associated with levels beyond the possibility of selling them together. Even if the user purchased level 1 with ccap video, having one wouldn’t give access to content protected by the other. So if someone just purchases level 1 without ccap video, he wouldn’t have access to content protected with ccap video.

Yes, demotion would change the level to 0 and remove all ccaps, unless you modify the EOT behavior code so ccaps are not removed. This behavior can be a problem if someone subscribes to level 1, then purchases ccap video and then ends the subscription, which would remove the ccap which he should actually keep.

4) S2 has talked of adding this functionality – recurring charges for ccap but no firm plans as yet… although I do see it different – I see it as increasing and decreasing the membership level fee rather than having multiple recurring fees….

Right, we plan to make it possible to have multiple subscriptions, and be able to subscribe to ccaps, and make demotions specific to access and not general.

But being able to have recurring charges for different ccaps, wouldn’t modify a single subscription, it’d most probably be separate ones, since a subscription managed by the payment gateway can’t have the amount modified. It’d only be possible if the subscription were managed by s2Member itself, but that’d require storing credit card information, which has a ton of security implications we won’t go into.

So my question is – if I offer specific ccaps to a membership level, and a user adds one, does this affect the recurring subscription fee, or is it processed as a one time charge in addition to the existing subscription fee?

No, it wouldn’t affect the subscription fee. Independent custom capabilities can only be sold with buy-now transactions, independent of an existing subscription.

What would it take to optionally add the ccap charge to the periodic recurring fee for subscription -and of course remove it should the user drop the ccap? PHP I suspect but has anyone done this so I can assess how complex it might be for someone who is NOT a php programmer – me…

Modifying the ongoing subscription isn’t possible, but it could be ended and a new one started. The user would have to enter the payment info again, which would be normal if he were paying buy-now anyway. Pro-forms would probably be best for this.

You’d also need to make any adjustments to the subscription, so you don’t charge again for whatever time the user had left from the previous payment. You can use the initial/trial term for this adjustment. Knowledge Base » Using variables in a shortcode

You can test these things with live, 1 cent transactions and see if you get it working the way you want.

Carmen, the code would go inside [hilite mono]<code></code>[/hilite] tags.

Sure, please use the contact form to send the login info, I’ll take a look hoping to find what the problem with your configuration is. s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Could you confirm with PayPal that you have PayPal Pro PayFlow Edition and not PayFlow Pro (this is another service that’s not supported by s2Member yet).

You’ll need to use this for the custom template too: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes -> template[/hilite].

Kenn, I don’t see a registration link there. Were you logged out of your admin account when you checked?

That’s right, Max. When you use s2Member, the other profile meta fields that WP has (e.g. biography) are not used, just the s2Member custom profile fields. You can create the custom fields you want to replace the WP meta fields. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields[/hilite]

Eric, this hack may help: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/setting-up-eot-notifications/

Hi Christine.

Hmm… I’d never checked if the expiration date would be at the beginning or end of it. From your test, it seems it’s when the date is reached.

The 9pm thing does sound like a timezone difference thing. s2Member doesn’t set timezones, it uses WordPress’. [hilite path]WP Admin -> Settings -> General -> Timezone[/hilite]

WordPress uses two different times in parts of the code, though, so check if that setting does the trick in this case. Let me know how it goes.

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Kim.

You can style the pro-form using CSS. A tool like Firebug is very useful for this. http://getfirebug.com

The pro-form does use Consolas, maybe that’s the one you mean? If you don’t have it in your system, it’d then try using Courier, and if that’s not available it’d then default to what your browser uses for monospace types. To change that one, in your theme’s styles file you could add something like:

div.s2member-pro-paypal-form-description-div {font-family: 'YourFont', sans-serif !important;}

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font-family.asp

Also, what are the options for changing the button from “Submit Form” to a Join Now or something else that looks more like a payment button than a regular sign up button.

You can edit that with a hack. Create the dir/file /wp-content/mu-plugins/s2hacks.php
[hilite pre_code]

Hi Anas.

These videos may help:

Video » s2Member (Client Portals?)
Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)
Video » s2Member (Advanced Conditionals)

Cool! Glad you got it working, Tina. Thanks for the update and for sharing your solution. :)

Hi Karla.

It’s very likely that the user wasn’t logged into his existing account when he loaded the page with the pro-form/button to pay the upgrade. If the person is not logged in, then the payment will go towards a new account, not an existing one.

If you can verify that he did pay, then you can add manually his subscr. ID to his profile to tie the subscription to his account. Also enter the payment gateway (paypal) and leave the EOT time empty, that’ll be populated by s2Member when PayPal tells it the subscription ended.

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Phillip.

I assume you have the login problem in your own site, since you were able to login here to post this.

Your login here is independent of the login to your site. They’d normally be different, unless you used the same exact credentials in both sites. But even if that’s the case, having a problem logging into one is not related to logging into the other.

Did you try using the lost password tool? http://yoursite.com/wp_login.php?action=lostpassword (Change the domain name to yours.)

Hi Ben.

Not sure if that’ll work, haven’t tried it and I don’t know exactly what headers that address loads…

What I’d try is using the [hilite mono]success[/hilite] attribute pointing to a normal WP page and then you can work with it the way you would any other WP page.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Custom Return URLs Upon Success[/hilite]
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes -> success[/hilite]