Raam Dev

Hi Poirot,

s2Member does not currently support multiple subscriptions on one s2Member user account.

In your scenario, you’d need to use Custom Capabilities to allow the building of memberships that include pieces of other content. For example, you might have a Level 1 membership that you sell and then if you want to sell that user an additional addon for his membership, you could sell him a one-time BuyNow Custom Capability (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms).

If the new Custom Capability should increase his recurring subscription, you’d need to provide a Billing Modification form instead (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms), which would include the new Custom Capability along with the increased recurring amount.

Any content that has been tagged with that new custom capability would then become available to the user once it has been added to their account.

Please see the video below for more information on Custom Capabilities:

Hi Buck,

Since your company name as presented by PayPal is set and configured on PayPal, there’s no way around the single company name limitation.

However, it is possible to use one PayPal account with multiple sites. Please see this thread for more information.

Hi Angie,

There are several ways to accomplish this, but all will require a bit of custom coding on your part.

You could utilize the custom= attribute in a Pro-Form shortcode to pass the URL of the last visited page via cv1 through the signup process and then use the Tracking or Signup Notification area (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Tracking -› Signup Tracking Codes or Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Signup Notifications) to catch that cv1 variable (using %%cv1%%) and then write some code to store the URL on the users profile.

You could also create a Custom Registration field that remains hidden on the Pro-Form but gets pre-filled with the last visited URL (you’d need to edit the Pro-Form templates and add the necessary PHP code to pre-fill a hidden field; see Pre Sale FAQs » Is it possible to modify s2Member® Pro Form templates?)).

Hi Jim,

Yes, you could do that as well.

Hi Stephanie,

s2Member uses its own directory, plugins/s2member-files/, for protected files. If you wanted to use s2Member only for protecting files, this could be done by using Advanced Download Restrictions (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Advanced Download Restrictions).

OK, thank you for the information, Boudewijn.

Hi Stefan,

I will submit a request to have your receipt emailed to you. Thank you for your patience.

Hello,

You can restrict content to specific tags or categories, but it’s not possible to limit the number of pageviews. If you wanted to limit the number of articles, you could do something like create a tag restriction for the tag “trial” and then new free members could be limited to viewing posts with the tag “trial”, while other posts require payment.

Hi Jenny,

I will submit a request for this to be emailed to you. You should receive it shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Hi Frank,

You could do it either way. The first way would definitely be cleaner, but would require more JavaScript to handle the dynamic aspects. The second method would be easier with PHP and simply passing variables around. How you do it really depends on what your developer is more comfortable with, but from a user-perspective, I think the first method would be more intuitive.

Boudewijn,

Support queries are answered in the order they are received. I have already replied to your earlier thread:

If you’re getting a message from PayPal about coupling a credit card with your account, that has nothing to do with s2Member. It means that the PayPal account you’re using (your wife’s) hasn’t been fully set up and PayPal is asking you to link a credit card to your PayPal account. If the PayPal account was fully set up, you’d simply get the option to pay.

Hi Andrew,

Please see my responses below:

with a login form which on successful login goes to a specific page and to another if username/password is wrong. Is there a shortcode to allow me to show a login form in this column, or how else might I do it?

s2Member utilizes the WordPress authentication system, including the WordPress login form (/wp-login.php). With s2Member Pro, we include the Pro Login Widget (Appearance -> Widgets -> Pro Login Widget), which allows you to insert a login form into any widgetized area of your theme.

If you wish to customize this further and create a login form specifically for your needs, you can do that and simply mimic the login form available on wp-login.php.

2. Then when logged in I would expect to go to a kind of ‘Dashboard’ page on which I could see my membership details and I was hoping a simple shortcode might give me the facility to show these details but I can not find reference to it – how might I show this information on a page.

When members login, they are sent to whatever page you have selected for the Login Welcome Page (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Login Welcome Page). You can customize that page to look however you like and there are several s2Member functions which will allow you to output things conditionally (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals and Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals).

There is unfortunately no shortcode to provide “dashboard details”. The closest thing we provide would be the [s2Member-Profile /] shortcode, which allows you to provide options for editing profile information and changing the password, etc.

3. I can not find any reference to what happens when my subscription runs out – for instance if I paid for 1 month and I login and the month has passed where do I configure the message shown on a page in order to re-subscribe, or alternatively if someone cancels a recurring paypal payment how does this manifest itself on my site?

What happens when a subscription runs out (or someone cancels their account) is determined by your Automatic EOT Behavior setting (please see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Options -› Automatic EOT Behavior). You can use shortcode conditionals (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals) to check if someone’s account has been demoted to free subscriber and then show a message based on that.

If you want to allow members to resubscribe, you should provide a billing modification form (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms) so that their account will be upgraded (as opposed to a new account being created).

4. Finally I found the s2Member-Profile / shortcode but is there a way to not show some of the elements on the form. Specifically username and display name. I would like to only provide access to change the email address and password.

There are no options to enable or disable particular fields on the Profile Editor page. If you want to change this, you’ll need to edit the template files that are used to generate that form. Please see this thread for more information.