Payment Duration vs. Membership Duration

[moosechic]

s2member is a great and I'm still getting use to using it in the most efficient way. Thanks for this awesome plugin.

I want to be able to have a different payment duration than the membership duration... for instance, if I want to have various payment plans for the same amount of membership time. ie. one payment of $1400 for a year access... 4 payments of $350 for a year access... 10 payments of $140 for a year access... (all of which being re-occurring). Is there a way to do this with the latest updates to s2member?

EDIT: I'm using the Authorize.net gateway

I just don't want it to set up re-occurring payments of $350 and then I have to manually remember to go in a stop it from charging them after the first 4 months... and even if I did I believe it would end their membership as well, since they're tied together.

Trying to figure this out... thanks for your help.

[Cristián Lávaque]

You could have a button for each payment plan. Generate the first button and then the other ones would be copies of the first but with the attributes edited.

Here's a full reference to them: WP Admin -> s2Member -> Authorize.Net Pro-Forms -> Shortcode Attributes (Explained).

[moosechic]

Thanks for the response.

For some reason, it still doesn't seem like I can accomplish creating a billing period that has a different duration than the membership period. I saw the "Shortcode Attributes" page before, but there is nothing specific to billing re-occurrence period or billing re-occurrence term... the "Regular Period" and "Regular Term" seem to bundle billing and membership as one, and sees them as a matching timeframe... if that makes sense.

As a better example... lets say I wanted a button to have "billing re-occurrences = 4", "billing term = M", and "billing amount = $350".... meanwhile keeping "membership period = 1" and "membership term = Y"... that's what I want to know if is possible. It doesn't seem like it to me, but I wanted to be sure.

Again, if I'm missing something, please forgive me... I would greatly appreciate clarification if it is in fact possible to accomplish this.

Thank you.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Well, PayPal has its limitations in that regard, but you could test in the sandbox the attribute combinations you want and see if the system will take them.