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Hi Hamid,
I’ve been informed that, given the way the s2member was designed, it was not possible to do it the way I intended to do it. So, I have been obliged to use the hierarchical levels 1, 2, 3 etc… without using to the ccaps to assign the download limits.
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That’s a pity really. Even if you separate the content, the software would need to know the protection level of the page in order to display an appropriate message to the user. Could you, please, ask Jason, if he can add that element if it is possible?
Thanks.
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when I set the posts restriction to Level #1, which means user at Level #0 won’t be able to access, and when they (Level #0) click on it the page will direct to registration page – doesn’t make sense for me I guess, why would they need to register again?
Hi,
Actually, I am very interested in finding how to handle this.
I want to be able to display a message to the user telling him:
Your level is x and the page you have tried to access can only be accessed by people with level y. If you still want to access the page, please upgrade…
I know the constant to determine the user’s level x; ([s2Get constant="S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ACCESS_LABEL" /]) but I do not know how to determine the page’s protection level ‘y’ so that I can include that into the message.
The user needs to understand why I am sending him back to the registration page.
Am anxious to know the solution.
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Thanks Cristian for being patient,
So, there is even no possible code which could say:
if ccap=’abcd’ then set download limit to 5 per day
if ccap=’efgh’ then let user only access content where [today MINUS creation_date >=14]
I sincerely had hoped that Jason would be able to come up with something for me in that direction! I am a bit frustrated by this.
One furher question, please:
Let us say I have Level 0, 1 and 2.
User 1 chooses Level 1: a monthly subscription of say 10$/month
User 2 chooses Level 2 :a yearly subscription (for the same content) of say $80/year.
By taking a yearly subscription, user 2 saves $40 compared to user 1 who pays monthly, and that is an incentive in order to promote longer subscription periods.
What happens when user 2 decides not to renew the subscription?
I assume that he should just be automatically reverted to Level 0 instead of being downgraded to the level 1.
Is that correct?
The question is: Does any end of subscription period downgrade the user to subscriber (level 0)? or to the level preceding the one the user was on.
The answer will help me to restructure my levels taking into account what you have suggested.
Thanks.
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Dear Cristian,
You are just repeating to me what had been said earlier. Please, Cristian, it seems that my earlier explanations are just being ignored or you didn’t have time to go through them.
As I wrote at the very beginning, the problem is that the levels as they are now are hierarchical. That means, they depend on each other.
I mean, when you are Level 3, you are also level 2 and 1 etc… So, a higher level is an upgrade from the previous level.
As it is now, if I set up levels 1 and 2 for example, I have to determine content for level 0 only, content for level 1 only (who also have access to content of level 0) and content for level 2 only (who also have access to content of levels 0 and 1). And that’s what I want to avoid.
In my case, levels (or sub-levels of one level) are just choices. Content would not be protected by level as it seems to be the rule here. Once a user is at ANY paid membership level, I want to allow him/her to go anywhere on the website and access any available protected content, but limit how long he can access that content, how much of that content he can download and determine if he can only access old (archive) content or not.
Please, can you be clear? Is that scenario impossible with s2member Pro? And if that is possible, how can I implement it?
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Hi, Cristian, Raam and other friends from the Support team,
Can I hope to get some guidance by to-morrow morning, please? I will be very grateful if I can generate the Paypal buttons and start directing clients to the payment gateway.
Please Jason, I am confident you can suggest the best way of implementing this.
Best regards,
Simeon.
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Dear Christian,
I see you are just reacting to the explanations I gave to the other Support Rep because it seemed he had not well understood what my problem was. My problem is how to set up the Paypal buttons and achieve what I described.
Could you, please, refer to my initial posting on 23rd Sept and tell me how to implement that.
For example, how would I set up the Paypal button and ccaps if I want to offer this:
Level 0: 30 downloads every 30 days
Level 1: 1 day non recurring – $5 – with only 5 downloads per day.
Level 1: 1 week non recurring – $15 with only 40 downloads per 7 days.
Level 1: 1 month non recurring – $30 with unlimited downloads per day
Level 1: 1 month recurring – $20 with unlimited downlads per day
I could add other sub-levels to deal with the fact that the accessed files are fresh or archives…
Please, Cristian, it is urgent for me.
Thanks.
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Dear Raam and the rest of the Support team,
I am stuck.
May I, please, ask you to do your best in order to offer me guidance and advice which would allow me to set up un-hierarchical levels or sub-levels according to my description above?
As it appears, my main issue is that I want everybody to access the same content on the website, but reward some levels (or sub-levels) with access to more fresh content and the number of items on the website they can view, listen to or downoad.
Please, ask Jason if he has an idea of what I should do.
Thanks.
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Can you, please help me to implement according to the way I described? I’ve been waiting and I can not go further at the moment.
My deadlines are past and I still hope to be able to get the requested advice.
Please, help.
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Thanks Raam, for the reply.
Unfortunately, I have the impression that there is an important part in my concept which you didn’t catch, and which was the reason for my support request:
The content is the same for everyone, whatever level he is on.
What differentiates them is:
– when they can access that content: some can access the content as soon as it is posted on the website, others have to wait 2 weeks in order to accerss it.
– how often they can access the content: some can have unlimited inline downloads, others can have downoads limits per given period
– mode of payment and chosen length of period: recurrent or non-recurrent.
So, if you are at a sub-level 2 for example, and you only can access inline downloads of 5 files, you can choose whatever files you want to access, and when the counter reaches 5, you won’t be able anymore to access files until the required number of days is reached. With the same example, the one at sub-level 3 might have unlimited inline downloads and won’t be bothered at all.
Hope someone will be able to help. Can you, please, ask Jason what he thinks and how I could handle this? I suppose he might be able to suggest a way around.
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Thanks Raam.
I could create levels with different downloads limits, but the problems with levels is that they are hierarchical.
Do you have any idea of the type of code I would need to use in order to determine the downloads limit to a category of users?
The same problem refers to the freshness of content, I suppose.
When I watched Jason’s video, I was delighted because I thought this concept of unique Paid Membership level would allow me to do what I had in mind. That’s why I jumped to pay for the Pro in order to implement it.
Please, as you are more experienced, could me give me some suggestions?
Thanks.
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If I understood well, the levels are dependant to each other. I mean, when you are Level 3, you are also level 2 and 1 etc… So, a higher level is an upgrade from the previous level.
In my case, levels are just choices.
I’ve seen a video from Jason which explains that it is possible to only have one paid membership (level 1) and build all the rest from there. That’s the schema I’m trying to use.
So, I want Subscribers (Level 0) and Paid Memberships (Level 1).
And then in Paid Memberships, I want to distinguish the sub-levels according to:
– recurrent or non-recurrent payments
– allowed number of inline access to files per period
– allowed number of file downloads per period
– content freshness: a good level could access inline files or download files as soon as they are placed on the website, while for example, another level would have to wait 14 days to get to those files.
That creates some kind of incentives to people who would see the advantage of using recurrent payments for example.
The sub-levels of the Paid Membership do not need to be dependent to each other.
Hope you can help me to implement this concept.
Thanks.
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Thank you Cristian.
Will learn ho to do that.
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Thank you Eduan.
I’m going to try by editing the user’s role.
God bless you.
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