Mike (Volunteer Moderator)

Thanks for the reply. The URL that you’re looking for needs to include some data under most circumstances, to let s2Member know that PayPal (you’re using PayPal?) has completed the transaction.

Can you summarize the general flow of checkout for me? This way I can understand what (if any) cookies and/or authentication your customer will have at this point where you need the URL. That will dictate the next step in completing this integration you want.

Perfect. That should do it. Thank you for the follow-up.

Also, I would really appreciate if you could do this for us :-)

Please let me know if anything else comes up :-)

What would be a better solution is to setup Modification Pro Forms with s2Member® Pro and direct your existing customers to those. This way the user is required to log into the site before completing a new purchase. Please see: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms

If you intend to sell something extra, s2Member also makes several options available for this.
See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms
See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Specific Post/Page (Buy Now) Forms
See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)
~ In this section, please take a look at the modify=”1″ Shortcode Attribute.

I’d also like an alternative to be able to process their transactions. I know paypal offers a virtual terminal where I can input the users information directly, but does that sync up with recurring billing and s2member?

Yes. If you setup something manually at PayPal, just be sure to come back to your WP installation and update the Paid Subscr. ID and payment gateway for that User. That way s2Member® has the right ID in your WP database, and it can respond to any future IPN communication that comes in for that ID.

The Paid Subscr. ID is your PayPal Transaction ID. Or, if you setup a Recurring Profile, use the Recurring Profile ID, or Subscription ID instead. You’ll find further instructions from s2Member when you go to enter this value in the WP Dashboard.

Side question: is there no verification that happens immediately when a customer tries to signup that could give them instant feedback saying their transaction didn’t go through?

Yes, if a transaction fails it is reported to the user immediately and they will not be allowed in. In your case it sounds like there is an unexpected error occurring during post-processing (e.g. the transaction is going through, but it’s not being recognized for some reason).

In order to identify this, you will need s2Member® support to inspect your log files. Please use this form to submit those, and reference this forum thread please. See: s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Are all of them being entered manually?
Can’t you just [EDIT] each user and empty the EOT Time field under the s2Member Options for each user?

Thanks for the reply David! If you get a chance, I would really appreciate this :-)
Also, please let us know if anything else comes up.

OK. Thanks for the reply. So it sounds like it could have been a combination of things. Interesting.

This does not affect s2Member® customers because s2Member uses an API Signature and does not use any PayPal certificates. I’m surprised to see PayPal upgrading these actually, because not many services use that API integration method any longer. The API Signature that s2Member uses is simpler/cleaner.

Right, you don’t want to track sales on that page; you want to track sales with s2Member integrated with your affiliate platform. iDevAffiliate is recommended, but you can integrate with just about any affiliate platform. I would take a look in your Dashboard at this section please.

s2Member -› API/Tracking

See also: http://www.s2member.com/kb/idev-s2-commission-tracking/

How can I get S2 member to send out and email or flag up a notice when their membership is due expires?

So these members were imported from another system. Did you define an EOT Time when you imported them? If so, that dictates when they will expire. If you want to be notified when this occurs, or have other processes run that do custom things, please see: s2Member -› API Notifications -› EOT/Deletion Notification.

The other thing I’ve noticed is if a member renews you can’t change their existing details/date to extend the membership, and if you delete it you remove the comments!

To extend the membership you would just extend the EOT Time in the user’s record. Click [EDIT] next to any user in your list of users; and then look at the s2Member Options for that user.

What s2member function should I call to trigger the free membership email?

I believe this is email sent out automatically when you call that function, because s2Member connects itself to WP hooks/filters. However, if this is not working as expected, please let us know exactly which email you’re referring to. Screenshots if possible.

If you are running s2Member Pro, there is an Import/Export area where you can export your s2Member configuration and then import it back into the new site if you need to. That being said, if you reactivate s2Member on the same site as it was previously active, you shouldn’t lose anything :-)

See: s2Member -› Import/Export (in your WP Dashboard).

I suggest creating a backup of your database before doing any of this. Just in case.

Can you please post a screenshot for us? Thanks!