Memberships

In the RSMembership! Memberships tab you can Add, edit, duplicate, publish/unpublish and delete memberships.

Membership General View - summary:

• Membership - the name of the current membership
• Length - the membership availability time from the time of the purchase approval
• Price - the membership purchase price

Watch the video tutorial:

Ep. 60: How to create Joomla! membership websites with RSMembership!

Membership configurable items:

The membership configurable items are divided into the following tabs: Membership Information, Stock & Activation, Membership Extras, Shared Content, Messages, Subscriber's, Email Settings, Subscriber's Email, Administrator's Email and Advanced Customization

Membership Information

This tabs offers the possibility to perform some basic settings for your membership:

• Membership - The actual name of the membership. This will actually appear for both front-end and back-end use.
• Category - The category of the membership.Since revision 12 we have added the possibility to group memberships into categories.
• Internal Code (SKU) - A stock-keeping unit or SKU is a unique identifier for each distinct product and/or service that can be purchased.
• Terms & Conditions - For each of your configured memberships you can set your own Terms and conditions that will be displayed on the subscription. Note that these can be also displayed as separate menu items
• Thumbnail Image - You can set a membership logo that can be sized according to your needs (jpg only)
• Description - configurable membership description area - supports WYSIWYG editors
• Price - actual price of the membership
• Use different price for Renewals yes / no - enabling this option will allow you to set a smaller (or higher) price after the user first subscribes to a membership
• Renewal Price - numeric value of the renew membership cost
• Trial period - numeric value of the period length. Note that one must integer values (e.g. 1,2,3...)
• Trial price - the trial can have a price or not ( 0 price )
• Recurring Payment - this setting can be used to activate recurring subscriptions (only available through the PayPal Gateway)
• Membership Length - the validity length in terms on time of the membership (days, months, years)
• Trial Length - the validity length in terms on time of the trial period (days, months, years)
• Expiry Date - Since revision 16, memberships can have a fixed expire date, not taking into account the subscription date of the user.
• Unique - if set to "Yes", the membership can only be subscribed to once for each user
• No renewal - if set to "No", users will not be able to renew the membership once it has expired.

Stock & Activation

• No. of Available Memberships - Here you can set a limited number of available memberships - 0 for unlimited number, -1 for a out of stock setting
• Activation - You can control how the membership will become active:
  
  • Manual - After the user has subscribed to membership, the administrator will have to manually approve the request from the Transactions tab.
  • Automatic - The membership becomes active only after the payment has been confirmed by the payment gateway. Note that this has a variable time window, depending on the purchase, payment information and payment gateway.
  • Instant - The membership is instantly activated.
• Subscriber's User Type - in the latest version (rev 14) you can upgrade the user's account once he subscribes. You will only need to select the access level your want the user to have from the list.
• Inactive User Type - you can downgrade the user's account when his subscription expires. Similar to the above option you will only need to select the access level you want the user to have from the list
• Disable Account When Membership Expires ? - this option allows you to disable the user account completely when the subscription period expires

Membership Extras

For each membership you can set some extra options, like additional folder sharing for example. You care read more about extras in Membership Extra tab.

Shared Content

In the Share Content area you can set what articles, modules, folders or URLs can be accessed by purchasing the membership. If there are no items configured, your members will have access to all of your content area.

Restrictions can be imposed by: folders individual articles sections category URL

Since revision 16, you can now restrict access to some component specific URLs by using the RSMembership! content sharing plugins. The following plugins are available:

• K2: restrict categories, items and user page/blog
• FLEXIcontent: restrict items and categories
• ZOO: restrict articles, categories and applications

Watch video tutorials:

• How to add article restriction
• How to add URL restrictions using the {?} wildcard
• How to add URL restrictions using the {*} wildcard
• How to restrict Joomla! categories to paid subscribers
• How to restrict Joomla! sections to paid subscribers
• Restrict ZOO content
• Restrict FLEXIcontent
• Restrict K2 content

Messages

RSMembership! offers the possibility to set redirection URLs or "Thank you messages" depending on the purchased membership.

This tab will allow you to set whether you wish to display a message or to redirect:

• After Payment: display message/redirect URL
• Thank You Message: WYSIWYG editor area that allows to set custom HTML messages
• Redirect to URL: configurable text box, where you can set the URL, for example: http://link1.com

Subscriber's Email Settings

In this area you are able to set general, heather information for the configurable emails located under the Subscriber's Email:

• Send Email as: Plain text/HTML
• From Name: The name of the email sender
• From Email Address: The email address of the sender

Subscriber's Email

In this area you are able to set the email body for various emails:

• Email send to the subscriber, received after applying for the current membership. You can set attachments to this email.
• Email send to the subscriber, received after his subscription is approved.
• Email send to the subscriber, received after renewing the current membership.
• Email send to the subscriber, received after upgrading the current membership.
• Email send to the subscriber, received after adding a membership extra.
• Expiration Notify Email. This is the email the subscriber will receive when his membership is about to expire (before a predefined period of time).

Administrator's Email Settings

In this area you are able to set general, header information for the configurable emails located under the Administrator's Email:

• Send Email as: Plain text/HTML
• To Email Address: The email address(es) of the receiver

Administrator's Email

In this area you can set up the body and subject of various Administrator emails:

• Subscribe: the email is sent when a new subscription is performed
• Approved: the email is generated when the membership transaction has been approved
• Renewal: this is triggered when a membership has been renewed
• Upgrade: when a membership upgrade took place
• New extra Added: when an extra option has been added to a membership
• Expiration notify: when a membership has expired.

Advanced Customization

Custom PHP code

Here you can place custom scripts in order to achieve that little "extra" that you need. The script will be executed after a subscription has been made and email (applying email) was send.

Accepted transaction

Here you can add standard PHP / MySQL code that will be executed when a transaction has been approved (this includes membership, updates, extras and renewals).