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Is there a plugin the s2member team could recommend for ecommerce on BuddyPress?

You guys set such a high standard, you've spoiled me.

Looking for something equally friendly to users and developers.

Thanks for the kudos!

I don't know much about BuddyPress, I'll ask, but you may want to ask in the BuddyPress forum too. http://buddypress.org/support/topics/

bsowards wrote:Is there a plugin the s2member team could recommend for ecommerce on BuddyPress

Thanks for the KUDOS! What are you trying to do exactly? By ecommerce, do you mean "cart" functionality, or membership, or single product sales perhaps?

In my case I have a donation site, so I'm looking for the ability to add optional and fixed priced donation "items" to my group pages.

Having reviewed a number of the eCommerce themes/plugins that are "BuddyPress friendly," I just haven't seen any that have a good hook library the way s2member does.

Thanks for the follow-up.
~ MUCH appreciated!

I see. Have you seen this thread yet?
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1604

You might build a form of your own to collect the amount, and then fill it in dynamically using the techniques described in the first part of that article. Use this to sell Specific Post/Page Access with s2Member, and your Specific Post/Page might be just a Thank-You page that says something like ... "Thanks for your donation!".

Hey Jason,

That's an interesting hack, I definitely think there is potential in "liberating" all the great work you've done on merchant gateways and making them available for one time purchases.

I'm using Gravity Form right now. Their team is *just* about to launch an Authorize.net Gateway Add on, so for the time being, I'm submitting the form to the merchant gateway's web form.

It seems that "form commerce" is actually the more flexible/adaptable form of ecommerce, so far it looks like Gravity Form is really the only player out there that is as dedicated to developers as end-users.

Keep up the great work!