Selling s2M memberships outside s2M?

[cassel]

This might sound odd so i'll try to explain.
I have a site where i currently sell a "one time access to a course", a "6 months access to another course", and plan on the "monthly membership for the previous course". It works ok for me the way it is set up with ccaps, and such.

I was invited to join another site to do a joined venture. That other site has a zencart store and the owner offers to sell my products (the courses) from there too. This is totally not obvious for me. Since it is a zencart, SHE will be in charge of the "products" and the "sales" so she can keep the arranged commission, but then, how can that be transfered to my site through s2M? Maybe the "product" to sell in the zencart could be a pdf document that would include a coupon which would, in turn, be useable through a pro-form and make the product free when registering at my own site?

Since i am not expecting to have hundreds of transactions per day (i wish), i could probably do something manually, but even then, i am not sure WHAT to do manually. And of course, if some things can be done automatically, it would help.

Any suggestion to this weird request?

[Cristián Lávaque]

I don't know how you could sell your membership from another site yet. The thing is coupons won't work with 100% discount, and you could have a free registration pro-form for each kind of membership, but then if these get shared you could get a bunch of users registering without paying.

The manual option could work, if your partner sells the different memberships in his store, he can notify you of the sales you create the account for that person with the correct access, or you can generate a link for the person to register with the access he paid for. The problem is that if they are paying for a subscription, you'll need that to be with PayPal or another supported gateway, that'll have an IPN integration with s2Member to let s2Member know when they stop paying so they lose access to members area.

I think it'll be better to just have your partner send those interested in your membership, using an affiliate link so it gets tracked that he sent the person, and then you sell the membership as usual. Wouldn't that work?

[cassel]

Maybe that way will work. I have to discuss it with her then. I didn't realize that a 100% off coupon was not possible, so i was going for that route. Obviously, it will have to be different. I was not expecting to sell, there, the recurring membership products, but only the "buy now" ones, exactly for that reason. So, i'll look into the affiliate and see if setting the values as if i was selling there. I'll see how i can set that up. I never thought i would be in a similar situation!

[Cristián Lávaque]

Yeah, I can understand. Sorry I couldn't help more.