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I am serisouly considering your JContentSubscription component, but I was unable to determine the answers to the following questions after spending about an hour looking around the site, reading the forums and playing with the demo:
First and foremost, I'm currently using the AEC component, but there is a bug that will not allow my subscribers to renew their subscription when it expires. I can't wait for this to be fixed, as I have many subscribers who are now trying to renew. Does your component allow for an option to renew an expired subscription? And is there a way to manually set users to expired or set an expiration date for those subscriptions that are still current?
My current subscription plans are based on the user group ... public, registered, author etc. I offer a free, lifetime membership that includes limited access to only some content/components (those that are set to "registered" in Joomla) and paid subscriptions that allow access to everything on the site (the user group for this is author). Can subscriptions be set up the same way or do I need to set up subscriptions for each component/section separately? If they have to be set up separately, can all subscriptions be included for one payment? I don't want to have users pay separately for each area of the site.
Does your component offer an offline payment option? Currently, I offer two payment options .. paypal and offline where the user would mail a check to me. If a user chooses the offline method (and quite a few do!) they are granted access to the site for 7 days to allow time for their check to arrive. When the check arrives, they I then manually activate the subscription so it continues without interruption. If the subscription is not activated in that time frame it automatically expires. Is this possible with your component?
When an account expires, can the user be moved from the author group to the registered group? And if so, is it possible to present them with a message informing them of this and giving them an option to renew on thier first login after the account expires?
Lastly, does your component offer an option for users to upgrade their free membership to the paid one? AEC has a subscription page that users can go to to see the status of their membership (which membership they have, and how long before it expires) and upgrade if they choose.
Thanks for your assistance!
Deb
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Re: Pre-purchase Questions
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Does your component allow for an option to renew an expired subscription? Yes
And is there a way to manually set users to expired or set an expiration date for those subscriptions that are still current? Yes
Can subscriptions be set up the same way or do I need to set up subscriptions for each component/section separately? You can do that but only within one type. Multi type subscription come in next release.
Does your component offer an offline payment option? There is email notification plugin. This plugin creates subscription and send you User ID, subscription ID, user e-mail and everything you need to request any payment you wish like check or wire transfer. Then using subscription ID you can activate his subscription manually.
When an account expires, can the user be moved from the author group to the registered group? It is possible to do but I do not see why CS need that. Every registered user can submit news using 3dp components like JA Submit. It is mot necessary to give user Publisher group. JCS see all users like registered and not no matter which groups users are.
Lastly, does your component offer an option for users to upgrade their free membership to the paid one? Yes they can see Subscription History and see when active subscription expires. Also next release will automatically alter user few days before subscription expires.
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Re: Pre-purchase Questions
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Цитата от Sergey Romanov: When an account expires, can the user be moved from the author group to the registered group? It is possible to do but I do not see why CS need that. Every registered user can submit news using 3dp components like JA Submit. It is mot necessary to give user Publisher group. JCS see all users like registered and not no matter which groups users are.
Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, if JCS doesn't differentiate between user groups, it won't work for my site. I have varying levels of access to the content on my site .. the general public can see some without logging in, registered (free) users can log in to see a bit more and paid members (the author group) can see the whole site, as well as submit content etc.
I will, however, keep my eye on this component and see if it eventually offers the features I need. It sounds like you're off to a good start with it!
Deb
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Re: Pre-purchase Questions
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I do not see anything that keep you off using JCS. You do not need JCS for public and registered users. Their access is managed by core Joomla functionality. You only need JCS to control Authorth. For JCS it is only one group. And it can easily manage their access to publish content.
I have number of clients with your scheme and it works nice.
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Does this thing have re-occuring billing?
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Not real. The customer have to go through payment procession anyway. It is not automatic.
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Цитата от Deb: I am serisouly considering your JContentSubscription component, but I was unable to determine the answers to the following questions after spending about an hour looking around the site, reading the forums and playing with the demo:
First and foremost, I'm currently using the AEC component, but there is a bug that will not allow my subscribers to renew their subscription when it expires. I can't wait for this to be fixed, as I have many subscribers who are now trying to renew. Does your component allow for an option to renew an expired subscription? And is there a way to manually set users to expired or set an expiration date for those subscriptions that are still current?
My current subscription plans are based on the user group ... public, registered, author etc. I offer a free, lifetime membership that includes limited access to only some content/components (those that are set to "registered" in Joomla) and paid subscriptions that allow access to everything on the site (the user group for this is author). Can subscriptions be set up the same way or do I need to set up subscriptions for each component/section separately? If they have to be set up separately, can all subscriptions be included for one payment? I don't want to have users pay separately for each area of the site.
Does your component offer an offline payment option? Currently, I offer two payment options .. paypal and offline where the user would mail a check to me. If a user chooses the offline method (and quite a few do!) they are granted access to the site for 7 days to allow time for their check to arrive. When the check arrives, they I then manually activate the subscription so it continues without interruption. If the subscription is not activated in that time frame it automatically expires. Is this possible with your component?
When an account expires, can the user be moved from the author group to the registered group? And if so, is it possible to present them with a message informing them of this and giving them an option to renew on thier first login after the account expires?
Lastly, does your component offer an option for users to upgrade their free membership to the paid one? AEC has a subscription page that users can go to to see the status of their membership (which membership they have, and how long before it expires) and upgrade if they choose.
Thanks for your assistance!
Deb
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Hello,
It seems this list was answered in the second post of this thread.
But shifting to current version it is added ability work with groups: users subscribing to plan could be moved in selected group. Though they don't set back to original group after subscription expired.
Another change is, you can subscribe with one plan mixed components and content items.
In addition improved mambot for payment offline but still you had activate it only manually, no such ability with trial access during checking arrive time and auto expired if some troubles as described wasn't added yet.
Hope I answer questions you are interested. Thank you.
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Monday, 03 September 2007
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