Additional Payment Plugins

Written by Dmitry

Currently we can support only 2CO and PayPal payment plugins because developers are busy with new projects. But we have third partners OSDCS, who can help you professionally and fluently. The Offshore Development Central Siberia team already developed range plugins for different payment gateways working for JCS and Member (joomsuite.com, JCS successor for Joomla 1.5.x), and could develop more according request.

You can check full list of developed payment plugins for JCS on this page .

Coupon system notes

Written by JE.Support

The coupons system lets you give discounts in %. To use it you need follow next:

Coupon system allows provide selective user with discount for all subscriptions, the format of coupon is HDG7GD093+7
Where HDG7GD093 - coupon itself you provide user with it, could consist from any characters have any length you want.
And +7 this is discount present, you need not include it in user coupon.

You can add coupon in administrator section of the component. Also you can use only one coupon for one value of discount.

Creating trial subscription

Written by JE.Support

     For creating trial subscription with JCS you'll need follow next simple steps.

1. Create trial plan you’d like was used.

 2. Make it invisible and grant to all new users automatically. This is done in plan adjustments.

3. Publish it.

    This scheme works in follow way: New user after registration and login process take trial subscription automatically, they will be able have access you pointed for time of subscription after it expiration they will be offer pay for subscriptions by any payment method you chose.

Does JContentSubscription Support CB(Community Builder)?

Written by Sergey Romanov

JCS uses the same users that CB. That means that all your CB users can create subscriptions without reregistration.

Though we do not provide CD plugins but probably we can do that in the future.

Does your component work with Joomla users or users have to register again?

Written by Sergey Romanov
JCS works with Joomla core user DB table. That means that if the user is already registered he/she does not have to register again to access subscription.

How to configure 2Checkout account

Written by Sergey Romanov
1. Login to 2co account.
2. Go to Look & Feel Section.
3. In approve url enter

http://mysite.com/index.php?option=com_jcs&task=pay&processor=.2co&pay=success

and pending url

http://mysite.com/index.php?option=com_jcs&task=pay&processor=.2co&pay=fail

Where mysite.com is your domain.

How to configure PayPal plugin

Written by Sergey Romanov

• Install plugin
• Edit plugind and enter your paypal email, currency and choose if you wish your payments be requiring. This means that purchasing subscription on your site customer will createpaypal subscription that will bill him automatically until one cancel subscription on PayPal.
• Login to pay pal and go to profile section
• Click on Instant Payment Notification and enable IPN. As IPN URL enter homepage of your site including index.php (E.g. http://mysite.com/index.php).
  

How to translate JCS

Written by Dmitry
The language files for JCS component are stored into:

/components/com_jcs/language/

by default there is only one english.php the latest updated accordingly version of component,  you can translate english.php easyly. Just copy and rename it to your language.php, carefully translate every line and place this file into the same folder where english.php are placed.

Remember do not remove english.php even if you don't use it.

How translate Years, Months, Weeks, Days

Written by Dmitry

The forum thread where described translation hack for frontend are here :
http://joomlaequipment.com/component/option,com_loudmouth/task,topic/id,1115/Itemid,62/

More extended ability for translation:

File: \components\com_jcs\view\add.php
Line:  77

Changed as:                   

and add there defenitions you would like for days, year etc.

DEFINE('JCS_DAY', "Day(s)");
DEFINE('JCS_WEEK', "Week(s)");
DEFINE('JCS_MONTH', "Month(s)");
DEFINE('JCS_YEAR', "Year(s)");

This will suite even with multilingual sites, just add accordingly defenitions to another lang files.

Note: this changes only from frontend translations.

The date 'from - to' zeroing after edit user subscription

Written by Dmitry

The full discussion on the forum is here :
http://joomlaequipment.com/component/option,com_loudmouth/task,topic/id,925/Itemid,62/

The exactly what we have to do is small hack:
File: \administrator\components\com_jcs\admin.jcs.php
Lines: 120, 121

Changed to:

 Please be careful before applying this hack be sure that subscriptions are zeroing.

 

The PayPal return wrong link

Written by JE.Support

If you get from PayPal follow notification:

The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again. The very probably you entered in plan configuration duration in days, PayPal don't understand it, e.g. instead of 1year you entered 365days etc. It is better follow next simple steps. If subscription is more than 7 days you need to count by weeks, if it is more than 4 weeks by month and so on.

The expand discussion for this issue on forum is here :

http://joomlaequipment.com/component/option,com_loudmouth/task,topic/id,505/Itemid,62/

 

 

Update instruction for JCS

Written by JE.Support

Important: please do backup before updating!

1. unzip update file Update from v.xxxx to v.xxxx  hot! From download section and put
appropriate folders components/com_jcs and
administrator/components/com_jcs on the server via FTP.

2. After everything is done and version are updated (check it on
fronted and backend) be sure file /administrator/components/com_jcs/update.php was
deleted automatically, if not delete it manually.

3.  Upload full pack and update your mambots if needed. 

4. The last thing check for additional language file if you have one. Just compare and add new translated lines from english.php.

Note: you need not delete english.php even if you don’t use it.