Raam Dev

Hi Zoe,

I believe there’s an option when you’re creating the test accounts to “mark account as verified”. Have you tried recreating the accounts?

Jason did a video on using the sandbox that may be helpful, otherwise I suggest contacting PayPal about this.

Adam,

s2Member is very much suited for every aspect of what you explained except for the hierarchy within users (manager accounts able to create new users). WordPress has the Administrator role which gives users the ability to create other users, but since s2Member is not designed for use with the Administrator role (all s2Member levels use the ‘Subscriber’ role), there is no easy way to do what you’re explaining.

I don’t know of anything that would be a drop-in solution for what you describe — it sounds like you’d need to have something custom developed.

Customizing s2Member and WordPress itself is of course also an option (there are plugins that allow you to customize the capabilities of WordPress roles, including the s2Member Level roles, so that they’re capable of doing administrative tasks), but that would be outside the scope of our support policy (please see s2Member® » Support Policy » Outside Scope).

Hi Bran,

The WordPress Author Page is something that is part of the WordPress theme framework. When you request the URL for the author page, WordPress dynamically generates the page for you.

If you don’t want that page to be available or accessible at all, you’ll need to find a way to disable it. You could also add some code that redirects away from the author page when the requested author has zero posts (see here for an example).

Hi Laurie,

Could you share the integration code where you think the fields should be set? It’s hard to diagnose this without knowing what you’ve already tried.

Hi Kathy,

If your account has access to the 4 videos, then you won’t see the PayPal button with that code. (The code specifically says to only show the button if you don’t have access to the videos.)

Hi Daisy,

The easiest solution will be to create two separate forms and then direct the visitor to the correct form depending on how many dogs they want to sign up.

Another way to do it would be to have them sign up for one dog, then have another page after they login where they can add another dog using a Billing Modification Form (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms). Or if the additional dog will cost them a fixed amount (as opposed to a recurring amount), you could use a Capability ( Buy Now ) form (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Capability (Buy Now) Forms).

Hi Kay,

Yes, you can certainly do this without creating three separate forms, but that functionality is not built into s2Member at present (we’re working to improve this in the next major release of the software).

For now, you can configure Pro-Form shortcodes dynamically so that members could, for example, click on one of three links and the Pro-Form would automatically load with the appropriate configuration.

You could also get a little more advanced and create the necessary JavaScript to automatically reload the form with the correct settings upon selecting one of the payment options from a drop-down box.

You can use a snippet of code like the following in the header where the “Login / Register” shows up:

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
    echo 'Welcome ' . S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_DISPLAY_NAME . ' / <a href="' . wp_logout_url( $redirect ) . '">Logout</a>';
} else {
    echo '<a href="/wp-login.php">Login</a> / <a href="/register/">Register</a>';
} 

Hi Melanie,

Could you please confirm that the email address you’re testing with has never been added to that specific AWeber list that s2Member is configured to use (in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› AWeber®)?

If the email address has been subscribed to the list in the past, and then unsubscribed from that list, it still exists within AWeber as an “unsubscribed” email address and future attempts by s2Member to resubscribe the email address will quietly fail.

Hi Michael,

s2Member fully supports SSL, regardless of whether it’s a WildCard SSL Certificate or a single-domain certificate.

Whether you are approved for PayPal Website Payments Pro is up to PayPal, but configuring SSL on your site so that s2Member order and checkout pages can be accessed via an SSL URL will certainly improve your chances of being approved.

Hi Kathy,

Could you please share the button code here that isn’t working? If you can share a link to the page that would be helpful as well.

Hi Pari,

What you’re describing sounds like PayPal’s Installment Plan feature, which s2Member does not currently support.

To make your scenario work with s2Member, you’ll need to set up a regular recurring subscription and then present an upgrade option to your members after 4 months. The upgrade form would be a Billing Modification Form (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms) set to charge for 1 month for unlimited lifetime access (so you’d charge for 4 months, present the upgrade form, the member would pay for the 5th month and then automatically get unlimited access and not be charged anymore).

The Billing Modification Form would cancel the recurring subscription, charge for 1 month, then stop charging, and the member would be given unlimited, lifetime access.