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I have six products - workbooks (ebooks)

Here is what I would like to do...

People become members when they buy one of the workbooks. There would be no specific charge for joining - it is included in the purchase of the workbook.

What if I give each workbook a custom capability - e.g. goals, purpose, process...

I understand I can add custom capabilities to a member by placing a + sign in front of the custom capability in the shortcode.

So here is my question... a site visitor decides to purchase a workbook - it is their first purchase, therefore they are not a member. Will the shortcode with + in front of the custom capability work? That is it makes the visitor a member and assigns the capability, which would be the first custom capability.

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for you help.

Art

I am no expert here, but i wonder if you really need custom capabilities. Maybe you can set one particular page per ebook, and sell access to each page with separate purchase buttons?

Thanks for the reply cassel...

I started this way and will use it for some material.

However, I want to provide lifetime access to workbook updates with the purchase of certain workbooks plus access to special posts about the workbook subject.

My work around is to develop a base package for everyone and use that for membership purchase - not sure I like this though.

Best,

Art

Maybe by selling access to specific pages, you can make it accessible for the max of 5 years. I guess you can use the Custom Capabilities for a lifetime, but for now, there is a little limitation with s2Member: they cannot have simultaneous subscriptions if a member is to purchase 2 of your products. I think the Specific page access would work for more than one "purchase".

Cristian might come and confirm this (or tell otherwise).

Hi Art!

The way I would recommend going about this is using Custom Capabilities to allow access to a s2Member safeguarded link to your eBook. Then, I would set up some php script on your Membership Options Page that would
1) See if the person viewing the page is a member
2)See what custom capabilities that member has

If you don't know how to do that you can find it under s2Member -> Api / Scripting -> Custom Capabilities ( Packages ) and look through the documentation there.

So instead of setting up six buttons, you would set up six buttons for non-users and six buttons to add Custom Capabilities to the people that already have a membership as shown.

Hope that helps!

artbutcher wrote:So here is my question... a site visitor decides to purchase a workbook - it is their first purchase, therefore they are not a member. Will the shortcode with + in front of the custom capability work? That is it makes the visitor a member and assigns the capability, which would be the first custom capability.

Yes, that'd work.

Are these one-time or recurring payments for each custom capability?

Thank you AltCtrlElite and Cristián.

Cristian - this are one time, life-time payments. I may in the future make them one time with a restricted time limit.

I had the same idea and am working my way through the process slowly as I'm not well versed in php... I am making progress.

I am interested to know if the following shortcode will work for creating a new member. See that the custom capability has a + sign in front of it - this is normally not the case. The explanation for this feature says that it is to add capabilities to a current member. But my question is will it work if the person is not a member yet.

[s2Member-PayPal-Button level="1" ccaps="+purpose" desc="Purpose Package" ps="paypal" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="jarthurbutcher.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="21.00" rp="1" rt="L" rr="BN" rrt="" rra="1" image="default" output="button" /]

Hi Art. That button should work fine, if I'm not mistaken.

Since they're not subscriptions, but one-time payments, there's no subscription to modify with a modify button. I'm pretty sure you can sell Level 1 to a guest, Level 0 and also Level 1 user, and what it'd do is set or keep the account at Level 1 and add the new capabilities.

Run your tests with a new account and an existing one.

Thank you Cristián.

No problem.