Jason (Lead Developer)

Thanks for your inquiry. ~ We appreciate your patience :-)

If you disabled Custom Passwords in your s2Member® General Options, they should NOT be displayed in default WordPress® Registration forms, or in s2Member® Pro Forms. Can you please post a link to your registration form so we can see what you’re dealing with? Thanks!

Thanks for the heads up on this thread :-)

s2Member® can certainly accomplish that business model for you. You just need a Free Registration Pro Form Shortcode that’s configured to provide up to X days/week/months of free access @ Membership Level #1; then to expire automatically — demoting them back down to a Free Subscriber status.

So your thinking about Membership Level #0 might need to altered just a bit.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms

Here is a quick example for you.

[s2Member-Pro-AuthNet-Form register="1" level="1" ccaps="" desc="Signup now, it's Free!" custom="www.example.com" tp="30" tt="D" captcha="clean" /]

This provides 30 days of free access at Membership Level #1. If you introduce a Pro Form that upgrades them to Level #2 during their Free Trial, that’s fine. If they choose not to upgrade, they are demoted to a Free Subscriber at Membership Level #0 automatically after 30 days (e.g. level="1" tp="30" tt="D").

See also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms
See also: Video » s2Member (Free Registration On Multiple Levels?)

If i choose my regular categories, and also featured, who is free. Will this override the otheres? Or do i need to place my articles just under featured to have them as free material?

s2Member® will check ALL of the Category Restrictions, and a User/Member must satisfy all of them. Therefore, if you have a Post inside both the free and protected Categories, that Post will require Membership; simply because it also exists in a protected Category.

Or do i need to place my articles just under featured to have them as free material?

Correct.

Just wondering if s2Member and Simple:Press will always be compatible? Will s2Member ever upgrade Simple:Press to the same status as bbpress as far as complete integration, now and into the future?

I won’t say never. But I will say that it’s unlikely.

I have had vbulletin forum software which is great but there is no integration with s2Member. Therefore, I installed bbpress, but it looks very amateurish in comparison to the demo model of Simple:Press.

Has anyone had experience with both of these forum plugins, and what is your opinion and recommendations as to which one is best?

I can understand why you would have that impression at first. However, I think you’ll find that bbPress® is quite powerful and easily extensible. Think of bbPress® more like WordPress® itself. When you install WordPress® initially, it also has the impression of being very simple — but it shines in it’s extensibility. That’s what bbPress® is. It just needs a better theme and maybe toss in some bbPress plugins to achieve anything more that you need. Authored by the same development team. See: http://codex.bbpress.org/

While I’m not aware of any issues between s2Member® and SimplePress, our focus will be on the s2Member/bbPress combination in terms of forum functionality and compatibility.

I’ve been trying to do this via the ‘Paypal Button Code Generator For Specific Post/Page Buttons’ and I can set the time limit. but the page I [think I] have set up to use, doesn’t appear in the ‘select a leading post/page that you’ve protected’ drop-down list – so I’m getting nowhere with it.

If the Post or Page is not appearing in this list, it is probably because the Post or Page that you’re trying to sell also requires Membership Level Access. These two functionalities can be mixed together, but the content that you’re selling cannot be. In other words, you can’t sell Specific Post/Page Access, to a Post or Page that already requires a Membership.

Please create a new Post or Page in WordPress® (do NOT protect it from Members).
Instead, protect it with s2Member’s Specific Post/Page Access Restrictions.
Now the Post or Page will appear in the list when you generate a Payment Button.

See also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Specific Post/Page Access Restrictions
See also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Specific Post/Page (Buy Now) Forms

Please let us know if problems persist :-)

Thanks for reporting this important issue.

I think contacting the theme developer would be a good idea. It sounds to me like your theme is applying content filters to the output generated by the Shortcode (which is never good). Some themes expose special tags you can wrap around Shortcodes to overcome this limitation. Generally speaking though, it’s not a good idea for a theme to manipulate content generated by WordPress® Shortcodes; because plugin developers expect that Shortcodes will output raw HTML — they won’t expect any special handling in this case.

Thanks for your patience.

As far as I know it is NOT the same.
However, you will need to confirm this with PayPal to be sure.
The question you should ask is as follows…

Ask PayPal this question please:
Does PayPal Integral Evolution support communication via PayPal Pro APIs?

I posted this question here myself.
See: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/forums/general-support/paypal-integral-evolution

If it does, then you can use PayPal Integral Evolution.
See: https://cms.paypal.com/fr/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=merchantservices/paypal_integral_evolution

Please let me know what PayPal tells you. I’m very curious to know if this works also.

Thanks for the heads up on this thread :-)

Details received. Thank you!

~ Investigating now.

Thanks for your patience.

Buck

It seems this may have happened to my latest user… but with one additional twist. I created the button as non-recurring annual payment, but the registering user was processed as a recurring annual user. I know this because I received an e-mail from Paypal indicating the recurring annual subscription was cancelled.

I just reviewed your s2Member® log files. I find that all of s2Member’s IPN processing on your installation has been against log entries related to “Buy Now” transactions. I did not find any with txn_type=subscr_signup.

Repeats of this — indicating “Buy Now” transactions…

'txn_type' => 'web_accept',
'item_name' => 'Pay What You Want Membership / 1 Year',
'mc_currency' => 'USD',
'item_number' => '1::1 Y',
'residence_country' => 'US',

Is it possible that you have another software integrated with the same PayPal® account? I have no idea why PayPal® would be sending you any notices related to “Subscriptions”, because from what I’m seeing in your log files, there has been no activity like this between s2Member® and PayPal.

And to support the original post, the paying subscriber does not appear in my database, at all. I’m running Multisite (not offering blogs) and have checked both User areas, and the user is not present.

This is the first time I have experienced this problem, and the only difference between the last user and this one was the recent upgrade.

Please post a reference to this User (i.e. a Transaction ID, or something we can use to backtrace this particular case in your logs and we’ll report back on this for you). Thanks!

Note… it appears that you’ve integrated with PayPal® Buttons and not with Pro Forms. With PayPal® Buttons the customer registers AFTER checkout is completed. Therefore, it is always possible (though unlikely) that a paying customer would either choose not to register after checkout; or that a customer was unable to reach the registration page after checkout (i.e. they never received an email receipt, or they got lost after checkout). You might consider moving to Pro Forms to prevent this possibility.

See: Knowledge Base » s2Member® Pro Forms

Daniel

I’ve noticed that occasionally (maybe 10% of the time) someone will purchase a membership, and their paypal payment will go through correctly but they will get no opportunity to register (ie, after they pay, they are not redirected to the registration page.) Some users report never receiving an email — others say that the link in the email gives them the error “Your link expired.”

Once you have log files we’ll investigate this for you as well. I’m not aware of any widespread problems like this, but taking a look at your log files should unveil the underlying cause. It sounds like s2Member’s post-processing is failing once in awhile on your installation. Have you experienced any server connectivity issues in or around the times when this occurred? Have you enabled logging since your original post?

Thanks for your patience.

If the problem still exists, please reply back and we’ll also run a set of test transactions for you.

Thanks for your patience.

I’ve just completed a review of your installation. However, I was unable to reproduce the issue that you described. Please see the attached screenshot, which does indicate that Open Registration is disabled on this Child Blog of your Network.

Please let us know if problems persist :-)

Thanks for the follow-up :-)

Please post the full code that you’ve implemented for ECOM tracking and I’ll review it with you. Or, submit a Dashboard login privately and we’ll run diagnostics for you. See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form