Raam Dev

Hi Quentin,

The two shortcode attributes you’ll need to use are rp=”” and rt=””. Here’s what Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained) says about those:

rp=”1″ Regular Period. Only valid w/ Membership Level Access and/or Independent Custom Capabilities. Must be >= 1 ( ex: 1 Week, 2 Months, 1 Month, 3 Days ).

rt=”M” Regular Term. Only valid w/ Membership Level Access and/or Independent Custom Capabilities. Possible values: D = Days, W = Weeks, M = Months, Y = Years, L = Lifetime.

The code you provided above gives the result in days, so you should set rt=”D”. Now, you’ll need to dynamically add the number of days into the rp=”” attribute (scroll over to the rp=”” attribute to see the PHP code):

[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="1" ccaps="" desc="Bronze Member / Description and pricing details here." ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="example.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="0.01" rp="<?php echo $daysleft; ?>" rt="D" rr="1" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="button" /]

Now, whenever the PayPal button loads on your page, it will automatically be configured with the result in $daysleft. Keep in mind that you will need to be using a plugin like Exec-PHP to run PHP code inside your WordPress Page.

Closing this thread because it’s a duplicate of this thread: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/redirect-problem/

Hi Pam,

s2Member does store EOT Times in the Automatic EOT Time field. However, that field is not updated until s2Member actually receives an IPN message from PayPal indicating that an EOT should occur.

So, for an active recurring subscription, that field should be empty. However, once the subscription ends, or if there’s a failed payment or user-cancellation (either manually on PayPal’s website or using a cancellation button that you created within s2Member), PayPal will send s2Member an IPN message that indicates an EOT should occur. At that time, s2Member will determine the EOT and set that date/time in the Automatic EOT Time field on the user’s account.

If you believe an EOT has occurred (e.g., a user cancelled their account), but the Automatic EOT Time field is still empty, then I recommend double-checking all of your PayPal settings, especially the IPN and PDT/Auto-Return integration (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® IPN Integration and Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® PDT Integration).

Also, if you haven’t already, I recommend enabling logging (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -› Logging). Once logging has been enabled, you can search the logs for the Transaction ID or Subscription ID to look for messages PayPal sent to s2Member about that specific subscription. If a user cancels their subscription, the logs should show a cancellation IPN message from PayPal and s2Member indicating that it has set the EOT Time.

Question 1: Is there a way for me to customize Paypal Pro forms?

If you want to style the forms yourself, you can prevent s2Member from loading it’s own CSS for the Pro-Forms and then create your own (see Pre Sale FAQs » How can I prevent s2Member® Pro from loading it’s default CSS?) You can also go as far as modifying the Pro-Form templates (see Pre Sale FAQs » Is it possible to modify s2Member® Pro Form templates?).

Question 2: How would you go about presenting the two options on my sales page
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Instead, I thought of creating two clickable images/buttons – one for each option. Each button would link to a separate page. Does that make any sense or are there any good reasons why I should stick to presenting both options one one and the same page?

The separate page method is actually the recommended method, as it’s not currently possible to place two Pro-Forms on the same page (it will cause conflicts). We recommend creating two pages for the two checkouts, and then simply pointing people to the correct one. To see an example of this in action, see the s2Member Prices page.

THE ISSUE I AM HAVING is, that I need to be able to make sure that in my database (Browse Members area of the Dashboard), I can see what URL they came from. In normal forms, this would be a siteID via a hidden field

This would best be handled by a WordPress Custom User Field somewhere on the account. This is really outside the scope of the s2Member plugin and I personally wouldn’t recommend using an s2Member Custom Registration Field for this, since it’s really an administrative field holding administrative data that only admins should see. I definitely would not recommend using Custom Capabilities for this.

The PHP code for detecting the URL they came from is relatively straight forward ($_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]), but plugging that into the WordPress login process involves familiarity with your custom code and with how WordPress stores data in Custom User Fields. The WordPress Codex and WordPress Support Forums may be helpful, but I can also recommend wordpress.stackexchange.com.

please tell me what code I should modify from the one I am using below. I tried to edit the location redirect, but it seems I was doing it wrong.

To accomplish that you simply need to change this line:

header( "Location: ". S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL) ;

To something like this:

header( "Location: http://example.com/some-other-page/") ;

s2Member sets the EOT time when it receives a message from PayPal/CCBill indicating that the users subscription is expiring (or their payment failed, or they manually canceled). When s2Member receives that message, it sets the Automatic EOT Time on their account. If you edit these users accounts, is there anything in the Automatic EOT Field? If not, that would indicate s2Member never received those messages from PayPal/CCBill and I would recommend double-checking your configuration (especially the IPN configuration).

Finally, if you haven’t already, I recommend enabling logging (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -› Logging and Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ccBill® Options -› Account Details -› Logging). After someone’s subscription expires and you expect s2Member to know about it, search the logs for that specific Transaction ID or Subscription ID and search for any messages s2Member has received.

I tested your code and the problem is that the username is not available where you’re calling it (when you echo the $url you’re just seeing a cached version of the username… try clearing your browser cache and testing it again, you’ll see that it’s actually blank just like the redirect).

I’m not entirely clear what you’re trying to achieve here. Are you trying to create a custom Login Welcome Page URL for each user and redirect them to that URL when they login?

Hi Matt,

s2Member will only allow the user to register when it receives a confirmation IPN message from PayPal indicating that payment has completed. If PayPal doesn’t respond immediately with that message, then s2Member tells the user to wait for an email and s2Member sends the email once it receives confirmation from PayPal.

There are various things that could cause PayPal to not send a confirmation message immediately, including things like the payer using an unconfirmed account that takes PayPal a bit longer to process. Unfortunately, there really isn’t anything s2Member can do to speed this process up.

If you’re curious, you can enable logging (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Account Details -› Logging) and then check the log files to see what’s happening.

Hi Christo,

That sounds like a bigger issue with your site unrelated to s2Member. If you deactivate s2Member do you still have this problem? The message that you mentioned is not an s2Member message. I recommend contacting your web host to see if they can help you solve this problem.

Hi Carlo,

Using the API requires knowledge of PHP programming.

s2Member is a WordPress plugin, so a good understanding of the internals of WordPress would be a great place to start learning. The WordPress Codex has lots of info and there are good sites like StackOverflow and wordpress.stackexchange.com where you can ask programming and WordPress-specific questions.

If you have any specific questions about the s2Member plugin, please let us know and we’ll do our best to point you in the right direction.

Great! Thank you for sharing the solution, Christopher. :)

Hi Candace,

This is certainly possible, but it would require some custom programming that does the logic work for your business model. The s2Member shortcodes that generate the buttons/forms all have attributes that define things like the rate, term, amount, etc. These attributes can be dynamically configured with a bit of PHP code so that when the button loads, it’s automatically configured correctly based on the current date.

To offset the recurring charge so that it starts on a particular date, you’d need to use the Initial/Trial period (see the ta, tt, and tp attributes in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)). You can also dynamically configure the amount charged depending on the current date. Also see dynamic shortcode attributes.

This will require custom programming work and if you’re not comfortable with PHP, we recommend posting your job on jobs.wordpress.net.

If you want to sync an existing user with a new List Server, you need to edit the user in question (Dashboard -> Users -> Edit), check the box that says Re-process List Servers, and then press Update User at the bottom.

Unfortunately, if you’re trying to resync 500 users, you will need to do this to each user individually. The s2Member List Servers integration is designed to work automatically during the registration of new users, not for bulk-adding existing users to a List Server.

If you have a lot of existing users you might want to simply export them (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export -› User/Member Exportation) to get a list of all their email addresses, and then use that to build an import file for MailChimp and import all those users directly into MailChimp (see How do I create and import my list?).