Ganaxi

Thanks, Cristian.

I am a bit confused. Isn’t the free registration only for Members at Level 0 (in most cases, and in my case, free)?

I have allowed for Open Registration – picking among the two available options – Yes (allow Open Registration; Free Subscribers at Level #0).

As I understand, that would still restrict registration at Levels 1 and above to just paying members. Am I understanding right, that in the special case, where I allow them to register using the custom registration link sent in the e-mail that they can then gain access also to higher levels without paying. That is troublesome, and if that’s true, please confirm.

And, at least, it appears to be in conflict with the following statement in Open Registration section of the plugin, namely:
If you set this to Yes, you’re unlocking /wp-login.php?action=register. When a visitor registers without paying, they’ll automatically become a Free Subscriber, at Level #0. The s2Member software reserves Level #0; to be used ONLY for Free Subscribers. All other Membership Levels [1-4] require payment.

So, basically if the above is right, I am stuck with the default Registration Page, since I cannot use PayPal Pro Forms well with PayPal Standard, as explained in the link below, due to another limitation:
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/pro-forms-with-paypal-std-for-subscriptions/
namely, that recurring payments cannot be enabled with PayPal Standard combined PayPalPro service, unless I force the users to either use or create a PayPal account.

Thanks,

Ganaxi

Hi cristian:

You got it. It was the theme, Karma. The developer had a solution, namely enclosing s2 code inside code fixed it, in case someone else has a similar issue.

Hi Raam and Cristian:

Thanks for your earlier responses. For your convenience, I have laid out step-by-step the situation, for clarity. Could you please go through that, and respond to my query, based on that.

Thanks,

Ganaxi

Hi, Cassel:

Thanks for the response.

Yes, I tried your website, and it works, but from what I understand the $79 charge is not a recurrent, but a “Buy Now” transaction. That works for me as well. The problem I am having is with Membership (recurring transactions) subscriptions. Basically, I am trying to PayPal Standard w/ Express & Enhanced Recurring Payments work with PayPal ProForms, so that transactions still happen on PayPal site, but that I have a Proform in-between for communication with the user before driving them to PayPal to pay.

If you have the same needs, and setup, would you mind trying to see if that option works on your website (without PayPal forcing you to use or create an account, as explained in the prior messages).

Thanks,

Ganaxi

Hi Cristian and Raam:

First, thanks for your responses.

I will try to be more clear, below:
1. I have PayPal Standard
2. I have PayPal Express (enabled by default, now, per PayPal w/ Std.)
3. I have enabled Enhanced Recurring Payments (ERP)
4. I am using PayPal Pro-Forms, not to conduct transactions on-site, but to have a page in-between the Subscribe button and the PayPal payment page (on their website) to give customers some more information
5. The whole set-up, as is, works with ‘Buy Now’ Specific Page/Post transactions.
6. I used PayPal Pro-Forms to generate the short-code, in the examples above, tried various combinations, but it hasn’t worked so far — meaning — PayPal gives me two options after the Pro-Form page (i.e., Button>>> Pro-Form Page>>> PayPal site) — so on the PayPal site, I have two options, use a PayPal a/c or create one
7. I want it to instead function, so that just like it does for Specific Page/Post right now, even with subscriptions that it does not ask you to do the two options above, but instead also gives you a third option, where you can check-out without creating or using a PayPal a/c, but with your credit or debit card.
8. PayPal, in my numerous conversations, said that it should work, and that I should work with s2Member.
9. Please help either by telling me what modification I need to the code above to make it work, or suggesting an alternative.

I hope that is more clear.

Thanks,

Manish

Cristian
I do have erp and I understood that you can use that for subscriptions using paypal std. I am not trying to process transactions on site. I know that cannot be dome with paypal std. I just need to use proforms to give soon info to visitors before they go to paypal. I understood that you do that. Pease confirm, either way.
Thanks.

Hi Cristian:

Let me explain. Below is my shortcode,

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form sp="1" ids="5988,5675,5679" exp="2190" desc="XXX In YYY ZZZ" ps="paypalGFP" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.gurufundpicks.com" ra="4" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /]

As I understand, when this short-code is put on the PayPal Pro-Form Purchase Page (I am using PayPal Standard), it should after purchase at the PayPal site lead to the first post ID(5988). Instead, it leads back to the PayPal Pro-Form Page after purchase with a link to the page saying, as below:

Thank You: Your Purchase Has Been Approved.
Click Here to Proceed

Although it works, this is confusing, as it should have, per the Instructional Videos, gone directly to the first Post ID(5988). I have manually created links in each of those posts, leading to the other two purchased pages, so that works, and is not an issue. It is the behaviour after purchase on the PayPal site that is the issue.

Hope that is more clear, and that you can help.

Thanks,

Manish

Hi Cristian:

Thanks for the response. But that will not work in my case. Let me explain why.

This is because I have over 170 such Specific Page purchase pages, each leading to a different thank you page, with each of those thank you pages containing a different set of pages that they have purchased access to. Basically, the thank you page is a lead to the other two or four (as the case may be) pages, so using the example offered in s2, I am not sure how to apply that since it seems to have “?subscr_id” as the attribute.

On another topic, I do need to apply that success= to my membership thank you pages, and am not sure of the application here. Does it go inside the PayPal proform shorcode at the end? like,

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="1" ccaps="" desc="$XX USD / Quarterly ( recurring charge, for ongoing access )" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="www.xyzxyzxyz.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="45" rp="3" rt="M" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" success="/my-thank-you-page/?subscr_id=%%subscr_id%% /]

Please help with the above two questions regarding Thank You pages, one for Specific Page Purchases, and the other for Membership Level pages.

Regards,

Manish

sure, eduan

but given that I could easily have more than a couple of hundred specific page/posts (or in this ccaps), would that somehow create a problem with the functions.php getting too big to handle it, or causing other problems, like slowing down the site, as I could see the number of ccaps approaching over a 1,000 at the end of a year.

Thanks,

Ganaxi

Let me explain better.

I am not looking to tie them together, in any way more than they already are, given that s2Member offers the ability to sell ‘specific posts’ to non-members.

1. A non-member purchases, say more than one (or a few) ‘specific posts’ on separate instances using s2Member’s current capability.
2. The data that gives that non-member access to those ‘specific posts’ – for a specified time duration – exists, somewhere in s2Member.
3. All I am looking to do, is, if by my encouragement, such users choose to register as a member (free or guest access level, you name it), then I would like them to somewhere be able to access links to all of those ‘specific posts’ that were purchased by that ‘guest/free user/non-paying member’ (Level 0).

It seems that such data must reside somewhere in s2Member.

Tied to that perhaps is the question, is there a page where for all members – Level 0 and above – say something like ‘My Account’ – where they can access their profile data – and can this ‘specific posts’ purchased reside somewhere on that page.

I hope that’s more clear. I don’t think I am looking to tie them together, as you may have interpreted earlier, rather just a way to display ‘specific posts’ purchased by Level 0 / Free Users on their ‘My Account’ page, say.

Thanks for your response, All.

Ganaxi

Just an update – did manage to get ‘Site Secured by s2Member’ in
s2Member > General Options > s2Member Security Badge

But the logo does not appear anywhere on the page. I tried inserting it into both the page as well as the footer widget.

Hi, Cristian,

Thanks for the response. I understand the access restrictions would work; however, will s2member features on, e.g., preventing “brute force IP/Login” and “Unique IP Access” also work?

Regards,

Ganaxi