Help in using coupons

Hi
I am a complete newbie and I have having some trouble working out how to do something quite simple. I have membership at my website www.scratchbuildwithjohn.com, and I want to do a promotion to increase my mailing list. I want to email my list and if they can get 5 new sign ups, to provide them with a free month’s membership. My rebill is monthly.
I have s2member pro
So after someone has achieved the goal of getting new sign ups i would imagine them going to a page in which they would click a coupon number so that they would then go to a payment page with the coupon number identified and then purchasing the months membership with a refund of the same amount. Can someone give me a simple bread crumb description of the process to do this? If so I will be on my way I for a number of other ideas…
John

Unfortunately that is not “something quite simple” for a plugin that is not “affiliate”, just “membership”… To do that you will need to integrate (bi-directionally) s2M with an affiliate plugin, or to create custom code to achieve what you need.

Krumch

Thanks for that. I thought the process might be to have a private page on
the website with a coupon system so that people who successfully add the
required additions to the mailing list (system for this not worked out yet)
would be able to join but have a rebate for the first month. I guess you
are thinking of the whole model which is actually a good idea in itself and
I should start to be thinking about affiliates. i do have one guy who has
approached me already. Is there a system which works well with S2member
stripe?

John

Hi John,

As for now I don’t know any affiliate package that can be connected this way (the way you need it) with s2M, you will need a custom code to “glue” the two systems (s2M and the affiliate package), not an easy task. I do lot of s2M synchronizations, maybe I can help you with this.

Krumch

A few years ago I bought idev affiliate. I have re-downloaded it and will
re install it onto my system. I have a guy who is keen be an affiliate so
maybe I should just try to get that going first. From what I can see idev
is fine but I am not sure how it will work with stripe. There are alway
issues it seems.

John

Hi John,

If I remember right, there is no way “Idev affiliate” to send commands to s2M, so you can set “the free month” present, but I can be wrong, maybe they talk by API…

It is important affiliate to work right with s2M itself, the payment gateway in s2M can be any allowed.

John,

Please see this KBA: http://s2member.com/kb-article/idevaffiliate-commission-tracking/.