Possible Alternatives to s2Member

#1

Actually, I have: Simple Membership (https://simple-membership-plugin.com/).

I’m starting to look into migrating to this as it’s actively maintained, there is a model of paying for extras, and it seems to do a LOT that S2Member does, but has some significant advantages such as triggering Stripe’s modern forms. It’ll take some time for me to fully implement it in a way to test and possibly take over S2Member.

If that’s the path forward to a plugin that has support and responds to security issues, that effort is well worth it.

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#2

This looks very interesting. Please, if you don’t mind, keep us posted. It might be a solution to some of us.

They say their plugin is free. Please check if there’s a catch or if it’s just something nice they’re doing out of kindness.

You might have found something pretty good if it does what most of us need (manage subscriptions etc).

There’s likely a way to make a transition.

I liked your idea so much that I felt it deserved a dedicated topic.

:+1:t2:

#3

Yes we were looking at that as well! Being more carefully, as we have several dozen s2 sites!

Sid

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#4

Congrats! That sounds fantastic. Sorry I didn’t work out the files for the other version of the plugin yet.

I left the instructions there, anyways, so any version can be fixed by making those modifications.

It’s intimidating to migrate one site, imagine dozens! :grimacing:

#5

I’ve gone ahead and disabled S2Member Pro (leaving the standard plugin in place for now) and migrated my paid members to Simple Membership. I had to manually paste in the Stripe customer IDs, but that was pretty simple.

I have a member making a change in the coming weeks, so we’ll see if things work without a hitch or if this alternative isn’t suitable for use. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, because so far, my signup flow is greatly improved by using Stripe’s modern layout instead of the jank form we’re forced to use with S2.

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#6

Do you think it would be possible to use simple membership only for checkout - but keep s2member running in the background for content protection/downloads? Could it be configured to set the s2member levels? Maybe that would not even be a big thing to write a plugin that can set additional values for all checkouts?

Most membership plugins had problems with big downloads (>2-3GB) and then often they do not support both fix time membership as well as subscription based via levels (well at leastt one level is enough for me for everything). And often for membership plugins there is no fixed time level - there is only buy an item or buy a subscription - but no XXX days that level.

Do you only have subscriptions via Stripe, or also via paypal?

Could you link your site? I would like to see how the checkout looks like.

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