Subscription fee - setting up.

[Michalis]

Hi Guys

well I have tried all the suggestions here
including making certain sections of the forum
private & private hidden

then I make a new member & see if I can get into
those sections that I have made private with payment.

I can still see those sections and enter without payment.

Does anyone have an actual working sub.scription with version 141 with other themes and not a default..

I would appreciate someone checking my settings for me in case its me <img>

[Helter]

does it work in fisubice or Integra2 for you?

[Michalis]

no it does not work for me in integra2
or any other of the themes i have <img>

[Michael Lundie]

Hi Michalis. Was the test member you created assigned to the payment group, or could you see the forums without the test member being assigned (also without paying)?


First up, make sure you have set up your pay pal account details to recieve funds. You'll find this at the bottom of the page in your main forum configuration. (Hopefully your template version allows you to see this - if not switch to another default template temporarily.) [If you skip this, when you try to join a paid group with a test user you'll just get an error telling you no account has been set up to recieve funds.]

Set up your payment group like you would any other. Select a minimum payment. (ÂÂÂ £10 perhaps. Don't enter currency symbols, you can set this up in configuration also. Just integer and decimal.) Make sure you set no free trial period. (Leave fields at 0.)

Log out, sign in with a test user - go to user groups and try to join the group. You will then be taken to paypal payment page - if you have set up an account. Once the user has paid and joined the group they can see the forum you have set 'pay group' only permissions for.

I can't yet tell you what will happen when a sub.scription runs out, but I'm assuming the user will be automatically removed from the user group. I've not got that far down the code yet.

Hope this helps!

PS: If your still having problems perhaps I can take a look this weekend - time allowing.
PPS: I'll help out Shamroc first this weekend and give him priority since he was the one who originally requested assistance about a similar, but different matter. It's likely that any problems that occur will be conected though.

EDIT: I just read your previous post Michalis and realised that you ARE wanting the same thing. I'm now wondering whether or not there is actually a problem with the programming, or whether it just works in very mysterious ways! I'll keep everyone posted.

[Michalis]

Hi Michael Lundie

thanx for your advise dude. I already have paypal set up which works well
for donations. I will go thru ur advise later tonight when i get back in from DJ'ing

I will try again with ur advise & hope something may materialize with it.

I understand the priority in helping the other guy first & thanx for reading my post too...

will let you know what happens with another reply <img>

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Actually subscribing never worked that way. When we had it working, once you paid the sub.scription, an admin still had to add you to the usergroup. It would be nice if it worked as expected.

[Michalis]

ok this is how far I have gotten after following the advise.

WHen I register & visit as a new user I can see the main portal
but when I go to forum I cannot see the sections. it does say I have to be registered to view this section...

I also noticed a bit to configure in ACP/General Admin/configuration.

so even tho I have followed advise it did not ask me for payment automatically when either registering or entering forum..

.=QUACK=.Major.Pain

u maybe right I may have to use manual take payment and move user to that group. but when they are moved to that group will sub.scription re-accure payment.

Anyway did a test as a new member entered baord and could not see the forum. so I selected user and moved them to the payment group. but once they are added they still could not see the forum.

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

I don't know. We setup a pay section with adult content. It was a monthly fee, but we set it to expire and user could re-pay if they chose.

[Michalis]

.=QUACK=.Major.Pain

so are you also saying u have setup sub.scription on integramod 141 for the type of service the site is offering & works well.

If you have is there anychance you can checkout my setting for me dude please if I give you an admin account.

I would also make a manual for this for others to read and follow if it works.

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

We don't use it anymore. We deleted the section.
Something has changed now, because I tried to setup a pay section to test it and it won't allow me to pay at all.

[Michalis]

shame I hope we can work together as a community to try & get
this as a fix.

[Helter]

i set it up here for 1$, but it wont let me pay myself....lol

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Funny- it used to work and when I did a new instalation, it wouldn't work anymore.
Something must have been modified in the past year that changed it to not work anymore.
As well as the group permissions which worked before too.

[Helter]

strange. I just finished comparing every file I can find pertaining to forum permission with the files on this site and they are all the same.
the only different files are includes/sessions.php and the theme overall_headers. Neither of these has anything to do with this prob.

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Only thing I changed was updating CT. But if I recall everything was still working ok.
Then our host went out of business and we had to start all over.
The new install was when I saw the difference. That was about last summer sometime.