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Hi,

I am not able to use IPN/PDT settings inside my Paypal. You told me that it was not needed because using the buttons will create a temporary IPN. (At least that's what I was able to understand.) But I still don't know where will my clients land, how to take them to specific landing pages, and how/if I'll get an email when they purchase.

I'm also not clear what to do for registration at each level and how to use these generated buttons. Is this created automatically? If not, where do I place the button codes.

Finally, in the restriction settings, I'm asked to enter categories ID numbers. My categories have titles, not numbers, and I can't find numbers anywhere for categories.

I'm trying to find the topics for each issue in this forum, but it's impossible for me to spend days in the search. So I apologize for dumping all these questions in this post.

Please provide me with the easiest, quickest way for all of this. I have a deadline and need to enter my content and do the JVP marketing or I won't have a membership at all!! You guys are great and the plugin is God-sent, but I'm feeling exhausted with details when I need to put the content in, or I won't be able to open my membership site as scheduled. (Time and $$$ are flying by as I pinpoint each detail, if you understand me.

Thanks,
MM

Here's a link to all the videos that talk about that, you asked a lot of questions scattered around most of the videos so I will give you the general videos page and not a specific video.
Here's the link:
http://www.s2member.com/videos/

Hope this helps .

Eduan,
Thanks for sending me to the training videos. I got a few additional tips (and a couple of more problems, ouch!).

But the bottom line for me right now is this:

1.My buttons are NOT working. When I test them, PayPal says they are illegal. I imagine that this is because PP is not really integrated to S2 membership. You DO say that it is required to enable IPN etc.

2. Right now my IPN is set to no because the PayPal rep. told me that to set it to yes would clash with my PDT auto-return, which is set to my shopping cart.

3. I can't change those PayPal settings because I'd mess my shopping cart, and without them it seems that the membership buttons don't work, the two systems are not connected. If there is a way around it, I'm not seeing it. In the link you sent me I had understood that the buttons would connect per transaction and create a temporary IPN. This does not seem to be the case. Am I missing something here?

4. I can't use subscriptions at all! In the Paypal video training I learned that I would have to purchase a PayPal enhanced subscription something or other ($20 a month) for my subscription system to work (in the button options). So now I cannot use the buttons to create subscriptions or member levels either.

For now, just to launch the site, I only have two options left that I see:

1. Use my shopping cart (which works with PP and does subscriptions) for people to purchase the membership in another URL, then manually include them in the system at each membership level, and manually unsubscribe, move up, etc. At the beginning there is likely to be a manageable amount of members, so I could do this, but ONLY IF the plug-in would still protect the contents and honor the membership levels and access, even though the payments did not go through the system, but I entered the members manually into each level. Can this be done?

(Now, if you told me that it is possible to integrate my shopping cart (1shoppingcart system) with this plug-in, I'd be in heaven. Of course, I'm not a developer so whatever way would need to be easy and at no additional charge.

If not, then here's another thought.

2. I could charge only a one time fee using a PayPal button that I directly set at my PP account. And then, again, I would have to do everything manually at your end.

But if the button is a one time purchase, a buy now that I set up at my PP end, then I have two questions:

2a. Will the levels and protection, etc, still work in the plugin? (I am offering a step-by-step path in which each member level is a stage in the path. So, though customers may purchase everything in a one-time buy, they still need to go through the stages in the system one at a time and I need time to put more content for the later stages.)

2b. Could I adapt your registration page, so that I would send people directly from my shopping cart to a registration page? (As a thank you or landing URL that I include for the purchase --Instead of they coming through PayPal) Or perhaps I could do something that the system would recognize them as coming through PayPal even though the buttons are at my PP account? (My shopping cart uses our PayPal Standard as the merchant.)

Please bare with me here and answer as soon as you can, so I can do this now!

If I am missing a point, and there is another option that you are trying to show me, I apologize and ask you to let me know in more simple terms, as I don't see any option to the IPN/PDT auto-return integration, and I can't afford to use enhanced PP subscriptions until some money comes in.

Thank you and please forgive my urgency and difficulty in understanding your help.

I do whole-heartedly appreciate your care, time and energy.

Thanks,
MM

Have you tried doing a plugin conflict check?
It might solve some (or all) of your problems. It is caused by a plugin that isn't compatible with s2Member.

To do it just disable each plugin one at a time until the problem is solved, each time you disable one try, for example, the PayPal buttons, if it works after that then you will have to uninstall the plugin causing the conflict or keep it disabled.

Hi Maria. I'll try to answer all your questions simply:

You should be able to use s2Member iwth PayPal even if PayPal is already configured for your cart. As explained here viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2905 the IPN/PDT in your PayPal account are the defaults, but s2Member sets the IPN/PDT on each transaction with the button it creates.

Configure your PayPal settings for s2Member. WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Options -> Account Details

You create the shortcode for your PayPal buttons. WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Buttons

http://www.s2member.com/paypal-options-buttons-video/

You don't need to pay for Enhanced Recurring Payments to have subscribers. If you don't have ERP, then your customers will need to have a PayPal account for your subscription, ERP lets them subscribe without a PayPal account. viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2634

I hope this helps.