Registration Process and First Page User Sees

[dscouron]

I've just installed s2Member and have been messing around a little bit. I've got a question that I can't find specifically answered elsewhere on the forum that pertains to the process of a user registering.

My site is similar to a membership directory site where if a user signs up, they pay a membership fee and then they can create a company profile page which will then be viewable to all visitors. So my basic signup procedure is either:

REGISTER->PAY->LOGIN AND FILL OUT PROFILE

OR

PAY->REMINDER TO REGISTER->LOGIN AND FILL OUT PROFILE

I've customized the admin area of Wordpress so that profile form a user fills out upon paying is the actual Wordpress User Profile page. My question is can I check to make sure that a registered user has paid before giving them access to their user profile page? And if they haven't, redirect them to a page reminding them to pay to gain access to their profile?

Thank You and Great Plugin from what I can tell so far...

[dscouron]

Or would it be easier to just use Custom Reg Fields to allow the user to complete their profile from the actual Registration page and then just verify they've paid before actually allowing their account to be created?

[Cristián Lávaque]

Thanks for the kudos.

Well, you could use user levels to determine what custom fields the user's profile would have. This doesn't work with custom capabilities yet. WP Admin -> s2Member -> General Options -> Registration/Profile -> Add/Edit field -> Applicable Membership Levels

With that you could probably use either of the approaches you mentioned.