Hi,
I'm currently working on a new plugin, which will let people purchase a "membership" to your site, for a set amount of money.
I'm just really going over the major features I want it to have, and would be interested to hear from other people about anything they would like to see in it. Its not going to be a very cheap plugin, so will be pretty feature packed.
The main things I envisage it having are:
1) Ability to make instant payment (via PayPal, at least to start with)
2) Choice of how long they want to buy a membership for (this will be customizable by the admin)
3) Emails sent out to them, asking them if they want to auto-renew when their membership expires (and also xx days before their account expires)
4) Admin interface so you can manually process a payment for a user (or just update an account, without making a payment)
5) Logging of purchases
6) If a user adds (for example) another month to their membership, it will automatically take into consideration the amount of time they still have on their account (i.e if they have 6 days left, it will add the month to their current expiry date, instead of just giving them 30 days from the day they made the purchase)
7) A "members area", where they can renew their memberships / view their purchase details (from previous transactions), and maybe a few other details.
I'm not looking at doing auto-recurring, as that is a REAL pain in the backside to get working with PayPal (and from previous attempts, has a lot of potential to go wrong, and not update their accounts)
I look forward to hearing your comments and ideas :)
Cheers
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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I'm currently working on a new plugin, which will let people purchase a "membership" to your site, for a set amount of money.
I'm just really going over the major features I want it to have, and would be interested to hear from other people about anything they would like to see in it. Its not going to be a very cheap plugin, so will be pretty feature packed.
The main things I envisage it having are:
1) Ability to make instant payment (via PayPal, at least to start with)
2) Choice of how long they want to buy a membership for (this will be customizable by the admin)
3) Emails sent out to them, asking them if they want to auto-renew when their membership expires (and also xx days before their account expires)
4) Admin interface so you can manually process a payment for a user (or just update an account, without making a payment)
5) Logging of purchases
6) If a user adds (for example) another month to their membership, it will automatically take into consideration the amount of time they still have on their account (i.e if they have 6 days left, it will add the month to their current expiry date, instead of just giving them 30 days from the day they made the purchase)
7) A "members area", where they can renew their memberships / view their purchase details (from previous transactions), and maybe a few other details.
I'm not looking at doing auto-recurring, as that is a REAL pain in the backside to get working with PayPal (and from previous attempts, has a lot of potential to go wrong, and not update their accounts)
I look forward to hearing your comments and ideas :)
Cheers
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
IMPORTANT: I've now moved to ultranerds.co.uk, and the .com will no longer work!
Want to give me something back for my help? Please see my Amazon Wish List
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