Raam Dev

Hi Michael,

For the approval process, I would recommend having paid users go to Level 1. Then to “approve” a paid member, you’d manually change their level to Level 2 (which is what you’d restrict features to).

You may be able to achieve blocking free users from having a BuddyPress profile using the URI restrictions (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions). Otherwise, you’ll need to manually edit the BuddyPress files and add some PHP code that does a conditional check to see if the logged in user is a free user (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals).

To restrict certain features to Level 2 users (i.e., paid, and approved users), I would again recommend using Advanced PHP Conditionals within the PHP templates/pages that display and give access to the features you want to restrict. This would give you the finest control over what gets restricted.

However, if all your paid-only features can be restricted using URI Restrictions, then you could simply use s2Member’s URI Restrictions and enter the URI’s to those pages in the Level 2 restriction box.

Hello,

It sounds like you could be mixing http://www.domain.com with domain.com. If you mix www and non-www, you will have issues where WordPress doesn’t know you’re logged in.

For example, if you login to http://www.domain.com and then try to access a page on domain.com, WordPress may not detect you as logged in.

Please see Knowledge Base » Don't mix www and without.

Michael,

If you add captcha=”clean” to your shortcode (as you have in your example above), a captcha will appear along with the Pro-Form registration form and will require completion of the captcha to proceed.

If you want to allow free registrations that require a captcha, then you won’t be able to use /wp-login.php?action=register. Instead, you can create a separate page for free registrations and use the Pro-Form Free Registration form (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms) that includes a captcha.

Then, you can disable /wp-login.php?action=register by turning off Open Registrations in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Open Registration, which will prevent spammers from submitting registrations.

Hi Matt,

When you test the login with a test user, do you get sent to the Login Welcome Page that you’ve selected in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Login Welcome Page?

The code above is correct. If you want to check for ccaps instead of levels, you’ll need to use the current_user_can(“capability”) function. Please see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals for examples.

The $purchase_page variable in the code above simply gets set to a URL in conditional blocks. You don’t need to do anything different with it.

Hi Giuseppe,

Please see Pre Sale FAQs » Can I add support for other payment gateways?. The s2Member PayPal hooks is where I’d recommend starting.

Hello,

You can definitely use the s2Member Pro-Forms to accept subscriptions, even if you only have PayPal Express. Please see the following from Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Quick Start Guide:

*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.

For details on using Pro-Coupon codes with the Initial/Trial period, please see the examples found in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Pro Coupon Codes -› Coupon Code Configuration File. For example:

SAVE-10|10%||ta-only ( 10% off an Initial/Trial Amount; the ta=”” attribute in your Shortcode )

Thank you for the update, Mary! Glad to hear you got it working. :)

Thank you for the update! PayPal’s site and information is definitely convoluted, so I feel your pain. I will recommend to Jason that he add a note about this in the next maintenance release.

Hi Matt,

Are you using BuddyPress? It looks like that code might be generated by BuddyPress (the id=”bbp_redirect_to” gave me that clue). The file that generates this code won’t have the code as you see it above. It will most likely be written in PHP.

If you’re just trying to redirect users after they login, you can simply edit your Login Welcome Page and add some code that detects the user and then redirects them to the correct place. See this thread for an example.

Hi Ralph,

It’s not different. If there are no users with those fields, you won’t see them in the database. The WordPress Codex describes what’s possible, not necessarily what you will see in your database.

For your scenario, I recommend looking into the s2Member Pro API. It allows you to create s2Member users from a external script, which you could attach to the approval process. See Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API.

Hi Angel,

You may be able to use a similar technique to that which we’ve used for PayPal Pro multisite networks that require a central IPN processor script. Please the second paragraph in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› PayPal® IPN Integration -> More information.

Hi Stephanie,

Yes, I believe that should work. You can always try doing,

echo 'Country: ' . get_user_field(“country”);

to have it print out the value of that field. That way you can check what it’s pulling. Keep in mind the user must be logged in for this to work, otherwise the get_user_field() function won’t know which user it’s supposed to be getting the value from.

PayPal Express Checkout is not limited to Buy Now transactions: You can also use it to accept subscriptions. You’ll need to have that feature enabled on your PayPal account, so I recommend contacting PayPal to make sure that feature is there.

s2Member handles both Buy Now and Subscription transactions, so there’s nothing you need to do differently to use the same account for both types.