About: matt howell

Eduan,
I think what Jason proposed would only work if you had multiple subscription levels in place. If you want 1 level – to protect say all posts – and offer a free trial, you can’t use level 1 for the trial and level 2 for subscriptions. The level 2 restriction prevents free trialers (who would be level 1 only following Jason’s suggestion) from accessing “all posts”.
What I did was use a pro free registration form for level 1 with a time limit, and then a Paypal button so users can subscribe if they want.
In this scenario I think this is the only way it could work.

Ok, now on Pro and have set up according to this:
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/free-trial-registration/
Level #1 will represent your free trial Members. Anyone at this Level is in their trial period. They ARE a Member, but only for a short time (1 week).
Level #2 will represent your paid Members. These are members who upgraded during their trial, or after their trial expired. They’ve now moved up to Level #2, a full Member now.
Level #0 will represent your Free Subscribers. These are people who have been demoted back down to Level #0, after having completed their trial period; and perhaps they’ve not paid for additional access yet.

Users shows up as Level 1 which should grant access but still Level 1 users can’t access protected content.

Thanks Randy.
I think this set up is a bit different in that users are allowed to see all items and are allowed to bid on items if they register. But once a bid is accepted, the item is moved to another category which needs to be only accessible to registered users. Simply put:
Cat A: anonymously accessible
Cat B: registered users only

Using the URI restriction doesn’t really work because restricted products can appear on pages without the category in the uri or on pages I can’t restrict.
A plug in like Restrict Content would be easier but this has to be done from the category level not the individual item level.