Community Support Forums — WordPress® ( Users Helping Users ) — 2010-07-28T05:46:01-05:00 http://www.primothemes.com/forums/feed.php?f=4&t=433 2010-07-28T05:46:01-05:00 http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=433&p=1887#p1887 <![CDATA[Re: Paypal for products]]>

Can the Paypal functionality be used to pay for products, or just for membership signups?

s2Member is not ideally suited for this, but yes. You could use s2Member's Specific Post/Page Access for this. In a future release, we will add Cart functionality as well.
( that's a long-term goal, nothing right away ).


Also, I would like for anyone who buys something to be automatically made a (free) member, so they can download their product from inside the membership area. Is that possible?

And can a person become a free member without going through Paypal?

Yes, in your WP Dashboard, under: s2Member -> General Options -> Open Registration, you can turn on Open Registration. There is a link to your built-in registration form in that section as well. By default, a new User is a Free Subscriber, at Level #0.

Once they're logged in, a Free Subscriber can click a PayPal Button from their Login Welcome Page, and be upgraded to one of the official s2Member Levels [1-4]. You'll want to generate a PayPal Modification Button for this see: s2Member -> PayPal Buttons -> Modification Buttons

Or not. If you're only selling Specific Post/Page Access, you can just put those Specific Post/Page Buttons on the Login Welcome Page for them. Or any Post/Page for that matter. If you want to make sure they're a Free Subscriber before they purchase, and that they're logged in, put them on the Login Welcome Page ( recommended ). Or on a Page that you've protected with s2Member.

Also, I would like for anyone who buys something to be automatically made a (free) member, so they can download their product from inside the membership area. Is that possible?

I think I just answered this in a round-about way. But just to be clear. No. The only way to accomplish this is using the technique I described above. Either that, or you would need to get a developer to work directly with the code for s2Member/WordPress, and integrate a more custom solution for you.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — July 28th, 2010, 5:46 am

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And can a person become a free member without going through Paypal?

Thanks!

>>>UPDATE - now that I am RingTFM, I am finding some of my own answers. It is digital products that I want to sell thru Paypal, so s2 does have that covered. But - what if a person wants to buy more than one thing? Is there a way to do that? I know I can code more than 1 thing into a Paypal button, but there are too many possible combinations to do that. Do I need to add a Paypal cart of some sort?

But I still haven't figured out the free member questions. Can they sign up without going thru Paypal, and can a paying user be automatically be signed up? LIke maybe they could tick a checkbox when they purchase something, if they want membership?

Statistics: Posted by crash — July 23rd, 2010, 7:21 pm

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