s2member levels and more

[pericard]

Hi,
i've been purchase s2member PRO using it for a french association, and ask myself a few questions.
I don't want to use paypal for the moment. I'm especially interested by s2member to manage levels for membership. I use free registration and manage payment by check. When paiement is validated, i manually change level 0 to level 3. Then membeship should be available for one year.

Is it possible to use EOT time manually and have then automatic email sending to a member which subscription is ending soon in order to ask for renewal paiement and if not receive, to convert to a level 0 member ?

Thanks in advance for your help

cedric

[Jason Caldwell]

Hi Cedric. Thanks for your inquiry.

Yes, this is possible with s2Member. Please see this thread for details on Manual Registration.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=411&p=1673&hilit=manual#p1673

Now, in order to send email notifications whenever an EOT occurs, you'll want to utilize s2Member's EOT Notifications. Check your Dashboard under: s2Member -> API Notifications -> EOT Notifications. You will need to write a simple script that listens for the EOT Notification and sends the Customer an email with whatever content you wish.

[pericard]

Hi and thanks a lot for your answer,
I've been reading my Dashboard under: s2Member -> API Notifications -> EOT Notifications but i'm afraid i'm not capable to configure any script . Would you have an example for an email notification that would be sent to both member and administrator when a subscription endind soon and then when a member is demote to level 0 ? That would be really great and helpful for me.

Thanks in advance

Cedric

[beccab]

This is what I need as well. We really need a way to automatically email our members when their EOT is about to hit. Even a link to a resource on how I can code this would be great.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Well, you could code a script that uses WP's cron and checks each member's EOT time to determine which are close to them, and those within the time you want to notify them in advance get sent an email you create for that purpose. You'll obviously need custom coding for that and can find developers over at oDesk, Scriptlance, Rent-a-coder and eLance.

That said, you could use a list server (email autoresponder service) where you add each member to a list when they join and have the autoresponder (drip) sequence start that same day. With it, you can create an emails that go out a number of days before the membership expires, or several emails. This will probably be less challenging than the custom script.

You can find the list server integration options here WP Admin -> s2Member -> API / List Servers.

Hope that helps you guys.