paypal reports

[beetle]

hi,

i've got s2member pro, but being from australia have to integrate this with express checkout and not paypal pro (not available in australia).

i'd like new users to join via a signup page where there is a drop-down box nominating which other existing
user referred them.

the referring user is of a different user type - in my case charities can register as a free member level 0 with custom capability 'charity'. whereas the normal users are level 1 and have 'read_posts' capabilities (so s2member is providing subscriptions to read my posts and I want to give referring charities a cut of the membership proceeds). any new normal user always has to select which of my set of charities to nominate when joining i.e. always has to select one (no user joins without nominating a charity user).

i am trying to add in a drop-down box of all the current users with capability 'charity' as a custom registration field and have seen the videos posted on dynamically creating custom fields so think I can do this part using the technique shown in the video (though pointers / suggestions very much appreciated anyway if this isn't the best way!).

the problem is tracking which user was nominated in that box in either paypal reports or within wordpress so I can see how much money i owe other referring users.

any suggestions on how to add either a paypal value that i can use to generate paypal reports or how I can pass this value back via the 'custom' attribute in the paypal pro form and create a kind of accounting system for me to use would be really appreciated!?

[Cristián Lávaque]

Maybe you can use iDev Affiliate to track those, and let the person select the affiliate (referrer) name with the dropdown. s2Member will notify iDev so it can keep track of these things and determine the commission (cut of your proceeds) as you define them.

WP Admin -> s2Member -> API / Tracking -> Integrating iDevAffiliate Software
http://www.s2member.com/idevaffiliate-i ... ion-video/

I hope that helps.

[beetle]

thanks cristian - i have bought idevaffiliate and will try and integrate it this way

[Cristián Lávaque]

Cool.

[beetle]

hi,

just for anyone else who might want something like this, here was my solution:

i've integrated idev affiliate now and use two custom values to pass through the affiliate's id (in %%cv1%%) and the charities name (in %%cv2%%) as per this video:
http://www.s2member.com/idevaffiliate-i ... ion-video/

so that I get my charities to create an idevaffiliate account through the idev signup page (vs. making them a different user type in wordpress) and then I manually create a page in wordpress with a sign-up s2member pro form with the custom values:
cv1 value = their idev affiliate account id.
cv2 value = the charity name

then i use cv1 in the payment and refund/reversal notifications to idevaffiliate and cv2 in the signup email to members like "Thanks for joining XXX and supporting %%cv2%%".

while manually creating a page is a bit of a bore I needed to do this anyway for the charities as they were always going to get a page 'about them' on my site.

hope that helps someone else!

bec

[Cristián Lávaque]

Thanks for the info! I'm sure others will find it helpful too.