Until now, our huge weddingplanning portal has been free to use.

In the future, we'd like to be able to charge the users for using the site and we'd like to do this in smaller steps.

JContentSubscription allows us to do this, as it can handle free subscriptions very good. This way, we can "train" or "learn" the users that they need to have subscription and when they're used to this, we can start charging. Smaller steps rather than one giant leap :)

Being very focused on SEO, I found a huge "bug" with JContentSubscription though, as it not only blocks non-subscribed users from seeing the site content. It also blocked Google etc. which would mean that 90% of the site would be unavailable for indexing.

I took contact to the programmer, Sergey, and he liked my idea, so he wrote a new version that still lets the search engines index the site while the non reg. users cannot see it.

This is an AWESOME enhancement of the component and I see no reason why we shouldn't use it on our site!

Also, I think it has more flexible payment options than other similar products. Yes, you can charge by Paypal etc. like the other subscription components, but JContentSubscription also works regardless of any online payment as you can have it use standard email. This is great, as less than 5% of our users in Denmark have Paypal or similar. We use a special Danish credit card and this way, we can just mail the users on how and where to pay!

Kenneth Lund

http://www.bryllup.dk

I think the review is a little unfair.

I've been using JPromoter since a couple of days before Christmas, and it has helped us clean up our site/URLs very, VERY much.

The biggest outcome of using it, is the way JPromoter scans your URLs. This made us see, that we had all sorts of identical "copies" of the content, due to the item-id-problem, that many users have complained about. JPromoter makes a visual presentation of this, so you can fix it, which I believe can be highly recommended to do in terms of SEO.

One thing that is really cool and useful, is the way it also scans your content so it presents you of the most used words. This is great, as you (once again regarding SEO) would normally have better results, if you use the exact same meta / title as the "most used words".

Also, let me point out, that it automatically swaps (site title) and (page title) if you want to.

That said, I find that the programmer (Sergey) is very fast to help and I have absolutely no problem with the price of the component - come on, you spent HOURS getting a good site, so why hesitate to give a few dollars to have THE RESULTS of you work much better? :)

Cheers,

Kenneth Lund

http://www.bryllup.dk

To all that read this post.  Patience is a virtue!  I was impatient with JPromoter do to some self imposed time constraints on my end.  I would recommend to all who use this product to give your self a few hours to grasp the power and get a real feel for it.

Sergey is indeed a developer who will work with you to understand your challenges and work through them. Also, for US people, he is 12 hours ahead of us so Sergey will need time to get home from work, go through his email and respond as he did with me.

Overall, great product and when combined with an SEO tool like OpenSEF, unbeatable!

Good luck to all!

Eric Caldwell

http://www.web-jive.com/

I had an idea for a subscription based website and was led to Joomla and then to JContentSubscription by my hosting company.
This component has met every need that I have been able to imagine!

Being a newbie to Joomla, components, modules, etc... you can imagine what all I asked this component to do at first! I had the component jumping through several unnecessary hoops and it still worked like a champ.

Being a newbie when I started, I can say that Sergey's customer service and support is second to none. I asked a ton of questions and never felt like I was imposing and any problems were fixed promptly. Thank you Sergey.

The component was also updated during the time I was setting everything up which made things even easier!

The only downside in my opinion to JContentSubscription is the lack of extensive documentation, but if you are experienced with Joomla and with Sergey's support, this shouldn't stop you from trying the component. There is a growing support forum at joomlaequipment.com.

Craig Watkins

http://illustratortips.com/