Raam Dev

Hi Kim,

When you create your PayPal buttons, you can go into the Advanced Variables section and add notify_url= variable to define which URL the button should notify. Please see this thread for more information: http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=309#p1333

An Account Balance feature would require integration with the payment gateway, so such a customization would likely require more than a hack. The simplest approach would be to create an extra custom field and simply store the balance amount there. You’d have to manually update it whenever someone wants to add to their balance, but as I said, integrating this with a payment gateway would be an entire feature unto itself, not a simple hack.

Hi Donald,

We are working on improving custom fields in the next major release of the plugin.

We recommend posting custom jobs on jobs.wordpress.net.

Hi Viruthagiri,

While s2Member is compatible with WordPress Multisite Networking, the sites within a WordPress network are separate and not interconnected. That means you cannot share users, logins, or other data across the sites (including access control).

Please see the following from WordPress.org:

The sites in a multisite network are separate, very like the separate blogs at WordPress.com. They are not interconnected like things in other kinds of networks (even though plugins can create various kinds of interconnections between the sites). If you plan on creating sites that are strongly interconnected, that share data, or share users, then a multisite network might not be the best solution.

The s2Member Multisite feature allows you to offer the s2Member plugin to sub-sites, giving your sub-sites the ability to setup and use s2Member on their own. When you upgrade s2Member on the primary site, the s2Member plugin is automatically updated for all your sub-sites. However, things like access restrictions on one WP installation are not shared across WP installations (again, the WordPress Multisite feature itself isn’t designed to work like that).

There are plugins that allow you to get around these WordPress Multisite limitations (such as the multisite user management plugin you’re using), however they may or may not work with s2Member. Without extensive modifications, s2Member will not protect access on sub-sites from the primary domain.

Glad to help, Kinga! Thank you for the KUDOS. :)

Hi Lloyd,

You’ll want to take a look at these two links:
Pre Sale FAQs » Can I change the width of s2Member® Pro Forms easily?
Pre Sale FAQs » Is it possible to modify s2Member® Pro Form templates?

As per our support policy (please see s2Member® » Support Policy » Outside Scope) we cannot help with customizations or design questions related to your theme.

Hello Kath,

It looks like you’ve set up a restriction in Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions that is causing this problem. Please double-check your restriction options and make sure that you haven’t protected any URLs that would cause the /blog-2/ URL to be restricted.

Hello,

This error message indicates you’ve configured the Cron Job improperly:

/bin/sh: http://example.com/?s2member_auto_eot_system_via_cron=1: No such file or directory

That says that the system is trying to run the URL as a shell script using /bin/sh.

What you need to do is configure the Cron Job to use something like the wget program to access the URL:

/usr/bin/wget -q http://example.com/?s2member_auto_eot_system_via_cron=1

Hi Marion,

If you’re referring to a PayPal recurring subscription (which by design “auto renews” at the subscription interval), you’ll need to cancel the subscription to prevent it from auto renewing. You can cancel this from your PayPal or using an s2Member cancellation form: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Cancellation Forms.

It sounds like what you need is to show those extra Custom Registration fields when upgrading a free user to a paid Level. However, unfortunately custom registration fields are not displayed for logged in users. (Please see this thread from the lead developer on this issue.)

The only solution I can think of is to include those extra custom fields for Level 1+ and then point users to a page where they can edit their profile and fill in those extra fields (see Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Member Profile Modifications).

With a little custom coding, you could even check to see if those extra fields have been filled out for all logged in users who belong to a non-free level, and then automatically redirect the user to the profile page, not allowing them to proceed until they’ve filled in the fields.

Custom coding like that would be outside the scope of our support policy (please see s2Member® » Support Policy » Outside Scope), but it wouldn’t be too difficult for a programmer familiar with WordPress to make such a customization.

Hi Deyson,

Download restrictions that control the number of downloads allowed are determined by the membership level (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Basic Download Restrictions). In the scenario you described, I would recommend offering three different memberships and configuring each one with the necessary download restrictions.

If a member needs to be “upgraded” to a different membership level to obtain more downloads, you can present them with an upgrade form that allows them to pay for the upgrade: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Billing Modification Forms. Otherwise, to upgrade them manually, you’d simply edit their account and change their Role to the correct level.

Hi John,

I am escalating this to the billing department. Thank you for your patience.

Glad to help however I can! :)

Could you explain the process then for a new user registering? Would it look like this: User clicks on register link -> sees a page with four basic fields -> presses submit -> sees another form with the rest of the fields -> presses submit again -> goes to PayPal to checkout?