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Hi there. I've got s2 Member up and working, and it works fine for 90% of the people I've had Beta test, but I have a question.

After paying at Paypal, the redirect goes to a blank page with a pop up that notifies the new user that they will receive an email with a link to register. Is there a way to just return them from Paypal directly to the registration page instead of waiting for the conformation email? I can't seem to find it.

Thanks in advance, and apologies if this has already been addressed. I couldn't find it anywhere.

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Thanks for the great question.

Yes. In fact, that is the way s2Member works in most cases. However, when you offer a free trial period ( and I see that you are ), PayPal does NOT communicate with s2Member immediately after checkout; because there no was money exchanged ( its a free trial ).

I know... weird. Anyway, this is a limitation in PayPal's PDT ( Payment Data Transfer ). s2Member has to say " please check your email ", because it has to wait for the IPN processing to finish behind-the-scene. Everything works fine, it's just annoying that a Customer has to wait for that email instead of being redirected immediately.

The solutions are as follows:

1. Don't offer a free trial, THEN, it will work in the "ideal" fashion that you're requesting.
2. Upgrade to s2Member Pro. This is not an issue with s2Member Pro, which integrates with PayPal Pro.
( video demo viewtopic.php?f=4&t=304 )

Jason in your comment below you say that it works with s2Member Pro, but we have just purchased it and it does not work.

Any other ideas that could help us???? We are getting desperate and we are ready to launch our site, but can't because of this issue.

jerpatvas wrote:Jason in your comment below you say that it works with s2Member Pro, but we have just purchased it and it does not work.

Did you get PayPal Pro too?

No I didn't purchase PayPal Pro, because I didn't think I had to purchase anything else, once I purchased s2Member Pro.

I really don't want to have to purchase anything else.

jerpatvas wrote:No I didn't purchase PayPal Pro, because I didn't think I had to purchase anything else, once I purchased s2Member Pro.

I can perfectly understand.

The reason I asked is because of what Jason explained above, particularly the last line:

Jason Caldwell wrote:2. Upgrade to s2Member Pro. This is not an issue with s2Member Pro, which integrates with PayPal Pro.
( video demo viewtopic.php?f=4&t=304 )