Raam Dev

You should be able to use the Custom Capability Buy Now feature (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms) for this. You’d need to write your own hack that uses one of the s2Member PayPal Hooks to trigger an event upon purchasing a new Custom Capability (aka “ccap”).

This would require that the user already have an s2Member account (purchasing new Custom Capabilities with the Buy Now feature can only happen with an existing account).

Such a custom integration is outside the scope of our support policy, but if you need to hire a programmer, we recommend posting your job on jobs.wordpress.net.

If you have Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior set to “Demote”, then when they unsubscribe they will simply be demoted to “Free Subscriber” and their account will remain. Then, if they later want to come back and resubscribe, they should login to their account and then use a Billing Modification form/button to “upgrade” their existing account (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Modification Buttons).

They could also just sign up again as a new user, but they would need to use a different email address because WordPress only allows an email address to be used for one account. However, if you set Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior to “Delete”, then when they unsubscribe their account will be deleted and they can come back and simply sign up as a new user.

Kerry,

Have you downloaded the Server Check Tool, uploaded the PHP file to your WordPress directory, and then loaded the URL to the file in your browser to determine if anything is amiss on your server?

Robert,

Configuring your web server will depend on your server configuration, the web server and web server version you’re using, and the version of PHP you’re running. Assisting with such configuration is outside the scope of our support policy, but I recommend researching more about the $_SERVER[‘SERVER_ADDR’] variable and then perhaps posting a question a forum such as StackOverflow.com or SuperUser.com.

Hi Peter,

The best way to make sure everything is correct is to run a few test transactions, pretending to be a new customer. You can temporarily modify your forms/buttons to charge $0.01 while you’re testing.

That is really the best way to test things before launching because nothing is closer to “real world” than a real world test transaction.

Clayton,

You can use Signup Notifications (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Signup Notifications) to send yourself an email with all the details about their signup (including their Level and Custom Capabilities using the %%item_number%% replacement code).

You might want to send the notifications to a GMail address so you can use their great search capabilities to find exactly what you’re looking for when someone calls in.

Hi Josh,

That is correct. If you have PayPal Pro and s2Member Pro, you will be able to create a registration form (i.e., an s2Member Pro-Form) that asks the user for their details and allows them to select a payment method. They will then enter their credit card details on the form and when they press Submit Form, their payment will be processed in the background (through PayPal Pro). The entire transaction will keep them on your site.

Once you purchase s2Member Pro, you can access more information about the Pro-Forms in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Quick Start Guide. You may also want to check out some of the s2Member tutorial videos.

Great to hear you solved the problem! Cheers! :)

Hi Johnny,

I personally use WHMCS on one of my sites, so I’m familiar with how it works. (I don’t, however, have s2Member running on that site.) For integration to work, you’d need to find some way to integrate the two different accounts. When a WHMCS account gets created, a corresponding WordPress account would need to be created with the appropriate s2Member Role, i.e., Level 0 – 4.

Such an integration is really outside the s2Member plugin itself. s2Member is just a WordPress plugin and it makes heavy use of the rest of WordPress. s2Member uses the WordPress authentication system and user base, so integrating WHMCS and s2Member would really be about first integrating WHMCS and WordPress. (There may already be some documentation on the web for this.)

Aside from the direct integration, and depending on what your requirements are (e.g., if you’re only needing to provide access to a single page protected by s2Member), you may be able to simply generate a Specific Post/Page access link (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Specific Post/Page Access Links) and then have that included in the email to the WHMCS client.

The register_link_gen() function is what generates those links. You can find that function in register-access.inc.php. The code in register-in.inc.php may also be useful.

Hi Terry,

As David explained, if you need to generate access links, you can do that in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Specific Post/Page Access Links.

Hi Josh,

Yes, with s2Member Pro you get access to the s2Member Pro-Forms feature. If you want to accept credit cards on your site, that requires the PayPal Pro service, however you can still use the s2Member Pro-Forms with the standard PayPal as well:

*PayPal® Pro is NOT Absolutely Required* s2Member is very flexible. It is now possible to integrate Pro Forms without a PayPal® Pro account, whereby the enhanced Form Shortcodes that s2Member provides can be integrated ONLY with PayPal® Express Checkout. In other words, if you get declined for PayPal® Pro service, you can still use s2Member Pro Forms. Ask PayPal® to activate Express Checkout for you. ( it’s free ). Once Express Checkout is enabled, you will have access to your PayPal® API Credentials. Log into your PayPal® account, and navigate to Profile -> API Access (or Request API Credentials). You’ll choose ( Request API Signature ). Now … here is the tricky part; whenever you generate a Pro Form Shortcode with s2Member, be sure to change accept=”paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo” to just accept=”paypal”; thereby excluding the on-site credit card processing functionality; which is available only with PayPal® Pro.

You would generate your Pro-Form shortcode and place that on a WordPress page (called something like “Register”). You would point new users to that page and the user would be presented with a form to fill out their details. When they click Checkout with Paypal”, their account will be created on s2Member and they will then be transferred to PayPal’s website to complete their payment. Once their payment is complete, they will be transferred back to your website where they can login.

Hi Ron,

Please see my replies below and let me know if you have any additional questions:

Does the Network Support License allow my users to set up there own membership sites within my membership?

Yes. In a WordPress Multisite environment, child blogs will have access to the s2Member plugin, allowing them to set up their own membership site independent from the parent site. Please see “Definition Of A Multisite Blog Farm” towards the bottom of the prices page for more information.

If I decide to set my members up with there own hosting and domain individually but only give access to those with membership, will those members be allowed to use this plugin?

Yes. The Network Support License entitles you to “UNLIMITED sites & instances”.

Hello,

There is no option for this within s2Member. You would need to write your own custom code that checks the users profile to see if all the fields are filled in and only allows them to renew if they are.

Charles,

If you’re using /wp-login.php?action=register as the registration page, then that’s the default WordPress registration page. s2Member hooks into it in a couple of different ways to add Custom Registration Fields that you’ve created, but the rest is controlled by the WordPress core software.

If you’re using the s2Member Pro-Forms, then you can modify the HTML templates in wp-content/plugins/s2member-pro/includes/templates/forms/ to customize the output of how things are displayed when showing a Pro-Form. Anything that isn’t customizable through the templates will need to be customized by hacking into the code or writing custom code that uses the WordPress hooks feature (there are lots of s2Member hooks available) to make customizations.

Using the Pro-Forms themselves is simply a matter of generating the necessary form and then copy/pasting the resulting shortcode into a WordPress page (a page you might want to call “Register”). Please see the Pro-Forms Quick Start guide in the plugin for more info: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Quick Start Guide.

Finally, as far as translating things and changing messages, you might also want to look into changing front-end messages and experiment with those.