Jason (Lead Developer)

Hi there. Thanks for your inquiry.

So you don’t have any Tag Restrictions configured with s2Member?
What about URI Restrictions, are you using those?

It’s possible that one of your URI Restrictions is inadvertently protecting Tags with a matching word fragment found in the URI. Adjusting your URI Restrictions might help you avoid this conflict.

Hi there. Thanks for your inquiry.

Sounds fine to me. I don’t see anything here that s2Member can’t handle. Just be sure to use s2Member’s “Modification Buttons”, instead of regular Payment Buttons. You’ll find the same functionality through s2Member’s Pro Forms (be sure to use a Modification Pro Form). This way the existing account is upgraded, as opposed to asking the Customer to register all over again.

1 – I want to get rid off Paypal Payments, just want to accept credit cards payments. (Note: I’ve purchased Website payment standard) — So is it possible to hide paypal radio button option from checkout page? — I just need credit cards payments.

If you only need to process credit cards, I recommend that you integrate with Authorize.Net instead of PayPal. If you integrate with PayPal Pro (not PayPal Standard, “Standard” doesn’t work with s2Member Pro Forms), you will need PayPal “Pro”. If you integrate with PayPal Pro, they require that you keep PayPal as an option.
Pre Sale FAQs » Am I required to keep the PayPal® logo visible on my PayPal® Pro Forms?

2 – I want to add shipping address section right below the billing address section (Because sometimes people want to send gifts) I want to copy paste all billing fields to shipping fields.

4 – There will be a check-box to allow people that they can choose shipping address as their billing address. Otherwise they will fill shipping address form fields too.

5 – I want to show this shipping address output (result) on order confirmation page and plugin admin page too.

None of this is possible with a default installation of s2Member Pro. Actually, it’s quite easy to add Custom Registration/Profile Fields, but not exactly in the way you’ve described. That being said, you can certainly accomplish this using a custom Pro Form theme that you design yourself.
Pre Sale FAQs » Is it possible to modify s2Member® Pro Form templates?

1. Can we force new members to use email as username? (with a non-kludgy solution – best we could do with Wishlist was rename the Username field “Email”…)

Sorry, no. At least, not without a hacked solution. This issue affects most plugins interfacing to WordPress, because other plugins and WP itself rely on both a Username field, and an Email field. That being said, there have been some workarounds introduced that you’re most welcome to try. See: http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=14806&p=33812#p33812

2. Can we have distinct access rather than tiered access? (as mentioned, buying the Level 3 book shouldn’t give you access to Levels 1 and 2, unless you can verify ownership of them as well)

By default, s2Member uses Membership Levels, and these provide incremental access. So you’ll be dealing with the same issues. However, s2Member also makes it possible to use Custom Capabilities, which would certainly accomplish what you need. Please see this video tutorial (kinda old now, but still applies).

3. Can we store a database of qualifying codes (from the printed books) that s2 can reference to automatically validate the membership? Currently we are doing this manually and it’s getting very frustrating and causing lots of issues. We would also need some way to verify multiple codes and apply appropriate memberships, although this could happen after signup potentially.

I would suggest that you make use of s2Member’s API Notifications for this. These are available even in the free version. A developer can write a short script that receives details from s2Member’s event-driven API Notifications, which are configured from your Dashboard, under: s2Member -> API Notifications.

4. If we can’t automatically verify codes, can we have the system send an email upon admin approval of new membership? (Wishlist currently allows membership to require admin approval but has no notification to the user when the registration has been approved which is frankly a baffling deal-breaker)

Yes, but may require a short custom file that attaches to one of s2Member’s many Hooks/Filters. I recommend that you write into our Customer Support Forums for assistance with this. We’ll be happy to provide a sample code snippet to help you accomplish this.

5. Can I ask more questions when I think of them later (as I’m sure I will!)?

Ask away :-)

Hi Jeffrey. We’re emailing you directly on this.
Moving this ticket into the Community Forum (not a Pre-Sale question).

Ticket closed. Thank you.

Thank you. I just took a quick look at your log file, and I’m seeing this error code: E00007

You can look that up here: http://developer.authorize.net/tools/arberrorcodes/
It sounds like you might have s2Member in Sandbox Mode?
Or perhaps your Authorize.Net credentials that s2Member is using belong to a developer account?

API Error Code: E00007 
Error Code Text: User authentication failed due to invalid authentication values. 
Description: The name/and or transaction key is invalid. 
Other Tips: Try switching between production and developer test URL's. The test URL requires a separate developer test account, which can be set up by filling out the following form: http://developer.authorize.net/testaccount. 

Hi Rosemary. Thanks for writing in.
Please allow 24-48 hours for a response from one of our Support Reps.
~ You wrote 3 tickets today, and all three have been answered today.

We’ll need to see screenshots for these two issues please.
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/capcha-is-not-visible-in-my-black-background/
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/s2-member-pro-payment-gateway-list-is-jumbled/

Hi Rosemary. Thanks for writing in :-)

Can you please post a screenshot for me?
That way I can get a better feel for what the issue might be.

Please try this Hook instead. You’ll want to Hook into s2Member’s handling of this.

<?php
	add_action("ws_plugin__s2member_during_configure_user_registration", "my_function");
	function my_function($vars_from_s2member = array())
		{
			extract($vars_from_s2member);
			/* Here are a few variables now available to you here.
			$role (s2member_level1, s2member_level2, etc)
			$level = (level number of access now granted)
			$email, $login, $ip, $custom, $subscr_id, $subscr_gateway
			$fname, $lname, $name, $pass, $user_id (WP User ID), $ccaps
			$user (a WP_User_object), $user->ID (the User's ID in WordPress)
			$fields (an array of Custom Registration Fields for s2Member) */
			
			
		}
?>

Hi there. Thanks for your inquiry.

… show up as blank., white pages. For instance:
http://bellabellucci.com/?s2member_pro_ccbill_notify=0
http://bellabellucci.com/?s2member_pro_ccbill_notify=1

Yes, that would be the expected behavior. These are handlers, not display pages. Communication between these URLs and ccBill takes place silently behind-the-scene, so there’s nothing to display. If you’d like to see what’s going on the behind-the-scene, you can enable s2Member’s logging routines for ccBill. Please check your Dashboard under: s2Member -> ccBill Options -> Account Details.

Hi there. Thanks for your inquiry.

If you’re running with PayPal Standard Buttons, you can check the Shortcode documentation for the output="url" option. Check your Dashboard under: s2Member -> PayPal Buttons -> Shortcode Attributes (Explained).

You’ll also find the success="" Attribute in those docs, if you have
s2Member Pro installed, and I think that option might help you further.

So you might create a PayPal Button Shortcode with output="url" instead of the default output="button". Next, load this button up on your site, with the Shortcode, and simply copy the resulting URL. Now take that and put it on any site you like. Just be sure that you’re NOT logged in when you copy the URL, otherwise you’ll have a special URL that’s not for first-time Customers.

[s2Member-PayPal-Button ... output="url" /]

Load it up (while NOT logged in), and copy the URL from one site to another.

Hi Dan. Thanks for your inquiry and kudos :-)

Certainly possible if you have the know-how. You will find the API Function written in PHP for this widget, documented here. I think you’ll find this helpful.

The source code for this aspect of s2Member is located in the documentation here.
/s2member-pro/includes/classes/login-widget.inc.php