Membership Levels, Content Dripping, Choice & S2Member Experts

#1

I’ve run into a major roadblock in trying to get a paid subscription website / blog set up with s2Member.

I’ve been able to migrate my free site from Weebly Drag & Drop to Wordpress with improvements. It’s taken me about a year and a half.

The stumbling block has been in how to configure s2Member to:

1) Set up membership levels whereby a

1 Month Subscription = X Posts / Downloads for $xx.xx
3 Month Subscription = X (x3) Posts / Downloads SAVE 20% off 1 mo. subscr.
6 Month Subscription = X (x6) Posts / Downloads SAVE 33%
12 Month Subscription = X (x12) Posts / Downloads SAVE 40%

2) Set up content dripping whereby a paid member can choose which posts he or she wishes to access.

3) Allow non-members to purchase access to single posts on a one-off basis (I’ve already gotten an answer to that from this forum -thanks!)

It seems that the only thing that really differentiates the membership levels, in this case, is the length of the subscription, since the amount of content accessed would be the same each month. Wouldn’t that really be just one paid level (not counting Level “0”)?

Is any of this even possible with s2Member?

As I am not familiar with coding, this logjam is way over my head and causing me to lose sleep. I’ve already had a less than productive experience in hiring a so called “expert” through one of the “freelancer” websites.

It seems that the only real s2Member experts out there might be you guys, the ones who developed the program.

Could you please recommend a real s2Member expert. I really need h-e-l-p with this!

Thanks

#2

Don’t panic! :slight_smile: It’s difficult, because s2M is so flexible, so you can do almost anything.

All the things you need are possible with s2M. BUT, s2M is a nightmare. BUT, for first 2 weeks only. When you learn it, you will be able to handle it. Just read inside admin pages, there stay all the info. And do tests. Compare results back to the texts. Repeat. That’s all.

I am not a s2M developer, I am a freelancer, and I run the same way myself. Now I do heavy synchronization of s2M with other products and services. Don’t panic! :slight_smile:

#3

May 4

Don't panic! :slightly_smiling: It's difficult, because s2M is so flexible, so you can do almost anything.

All the things you need are possible with s2M. BUT, s2M is a nightmare. BUT, for first 2 weeks only. When you learn it, you will be able to handle it. Just read inside admin pages, there stay all the info. And do tests. Compare results back to the texts. Repeat. That's all.

I am not a s2M developer, I am a freelancer, and I run the same way myself. Now I do heavy synchronization of s2M with other products and services. Don't panic! :slightly_smiling:

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May 4

I've run into a major roadblock in trying to get a paid subscription website / blog set up with s2Member.

I've been able to migrate my free site from Weebly Drag & Drop to Wordpress with improvements. It's taken me about a year and a half.

The stumbling block has been in how to configure s2Member to:

1) Set up membership levels whereby a

1 Month Subscription = X Posts / Downloads for $xx.xx

3 Month Subscription = X (x3) Posts / Downloads SAVE 20% off 1 mo. subscr.

6 Month Subscription = X (x6) Posts / Downloads SAVE 33%

12 Month Subscription = X (x12) Posts / Downloads SAVE 40%

2) Set up content dripping whereby a paid member can choose which posts he or she wishes to access.

3) Allow non-members to purchase access to single posts on a one-off basis (I've already gotten an answer to that from this forum -thanks!)

It seems that the only thing that really differentiates the membership levels, in this case, is the length of the subscription, since the amount of content accessed would be the same each month. Wouldn't that really be just one paid level (not counting Level "0")?

Is any of this even possible with s2Member?

As I am not familiar with coding, this logjam is way over my head and causing me to lose sleep. I've already had a less than productive experience in hiring a so called "expert" through one of the "freelancer" websites.

It seems that the only real s2Member experts out there might be you guys, the ones who developed the program.

Could you please recommend a real s2Member expert. I really need h-e-l-p with this!

Thanks

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#4

I agree with Krum (@krumch)!

I would just add that this bit is never going to work, though, without serious custom coding:

  1. Set up content dripping whereby a paid member can choose which posts he or she wishes to access.

That request is confusing dripping and per-page access. If you want your users to choose which page(s) to access, then that is what per-page sales are for. If you want to decide yourself what users can access during a specific period, that’s what dripping is for. Don’t try to combine the two!

#5

@KTS915: I think @johen uses “dripping” with different meaning. When he learns s2M, he will “calibrate” his terms, and then it will be doable.