Raam Dev

Hi Anita,

You’d need to do two things: Use Custom Capabilities to identify those members who have purchased your subscription product and also funnel members and non-members to the correct signup page: Non-members need to become members when they purchase the subscription product and existing members need to have their existing recurring payment upgraded to include the additional subscription amount.

If you’ve decided to use the Custom Capability called “subscription” to identify those members who have signed up for the subscription, then you’d simply include additional conditional checks within your content dripping code to check if the member attempting to access the content has the “subscription” custom capability.

Non-members would need to signup on a page that uses a Pro-Form or PayPal button configured to assign the “subscription” custom capability, and existing members would need to sign up using a Pro-Form or PayPal billing modification button/form (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms or Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Subscr. Modification Buttons) that updates their existing payment subscription to include the new total payment amount as well as adds the “subscription” custom capability to their existing account, thereby giving them access to the additional content through the content dripping.

Hi Jeff,

s2Member Pro comes with the Pro API (see screenshot).

Hi Mark,

When visitors or members try to access content they’re not allowed to access, they are redirected to the Membership Options Page (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Membership Options Page). On that page, you can place links that point to three other pages, one for each of your levels (Free, Member, Pro); you’ll place the Pro-Forms on those pages.

Note: For advanced handling and automatic redirection, you may want to look into extracting the Membership Options Page Variables (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Membership Options Page Variables (MOP Vars)) using some PHP; you can automatically redirect to a specific page based on which piece of content the user was trying to access.

Hello,

Please change this line:

if(empty ($_POST["s2member_pro_paypal_checkout"]) && empty($vars["attr"]["modify"])) {

to this:

if(empty($vars["attr"]["modify"])) {

As a reference, the correct link to the original post where this code is mentioned can be found here.

Hi Novus,

Yes, that is correct: The other options require PayPal Pro. If you don’t have PayPal Pro, you can only use the PayPal button option.

Hi Joel,

I misunderstood what you mean by “won’t be signing up for a membership to a website”. Yes, you can definitely have them pay and signup on your website and then use the username that’s created to confirm their membership to the club.

Hi Tuhin,

s2Member Pro does not require PayPal Pro. 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.

Hi Joe,

Please see my responses below:

1. This works PERFECTLY if you have a yahoo email but the subscriber never gets the email for their password if they use gmail? Yahoo mail works 100% of the time but we CANNOT get gmail to work?!?! I already submitted this question to the s2member forum which was answered by telling me to follow the instructions found here: (Knowledge Base » Troubleshooting Email Delivery Problems). I went through every step and still can’t get gmail email addresses to receive a confirmation email upon submitting a form. This is problem #1 – Please help me!!

This would indicate problems with your server sending email to Gmail’s servers. If Yahoo works 100% of the time and Gmail works 0% of the time, then there is no problem with s2Member sending emails, but with the server delivering them. Have you tried using the WP SMTP plugin (as described here) to configure an SMTP server for sending email? If so, have you tried setting your From address in WordPress and s2Member to use a Gmail address and then use the Gmail SMTP servers for sending email?

This makes it to where you pay for access to Module 3 and you’re in – One month later it charges you again and now you have access to module 4 – Then 5, 6, 7, and 8.

2. Is this correct or not? Yes or no? If yes, then perfect! If no, can you please explain? :)

If you want to automatically provide access to new content based on the amount of time that has passed, you’ll need to use Content Dripping (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping). There is currently no way to link a specific successful recurring payment to the release of new content (you could add this functionality with some custom programming by hooking into the the IPN messages, but that would be a bit complex).

Now, what happens if my modules are setup as automatic recurring monthly drafts and someone wants to fast track from module 3 to module 4?

4. Do they have to wait a month for the draft or can they simply fill out the form on module 4 sign up and immediately access module 4? Please be thorough…

If you’re using the content dripping explained earlier, then yes, they’ll need to wait a month. However, the way around this is to combine content dripping with a conditional that also checks if they have a specific Custom Capability on their account. Then, you can either manually add the custom capability to their account to give them access immediately, or they can purchase access using Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms or Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Authorize.Net® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms.

5. If they are able to fast track and sign up for module 4 whenever they want, what happens on the next month when that draft for module 4 was initially scheduled to come out? Please be thorough…

Again, recurring monthly payments are not linked to the release of content. You can use content dripping to release content based on the amount of time that has passed since the user signed up. If they get early access to the content, they’ll simply continue to have access after the allotted time has passed.

Hi Joel,

Yes, you could certainly use s2Member for this. You’d simply process all the signups manually, adding each of the accounts manually through the WordPress admin panel. Or, you could have your members signup through your website to pay for the membership and then simply give them a code of some type that proves they signed up.

If you’re unsure if s2Member is right for you, I recommend downloading and installing the free version. You can also take a look at the s2Member videos.

Hi Mike,

Yes, that interferes with s2Member. When you select a page as the Posts page in WordPress, WordPress will treat that as a special page within WordPress. s2Member will not recognize it as a normal page and therefore it won’t be protected. This happens because of the way WordPress handles that page, making it very complicated to protect.

You may be able to manually edit the page template and use Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals and/or Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced Query Conditionals to achieve the desired result.

Hi Thomas,

This thread should point you in the right direction:
http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14211&p=29918#p31548

Ah, in that the HTML encoding of the spaces is automatically taken care of. Glad you got it working!