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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: mnn2 on February 06, 2018, 09:09:46 PM

Title: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: mnn2 on February 06, 2018, 09:09:46 PM
How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?

Please help.

Thankyou.
Title: Re: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 07, 2018, 01:13:50 AM
I'm actually unsure right now if that can even be easily done, would have to look into it, but what do you need this for? I am curious.
Title: Re: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: mnn2 on February 07, 2018, 01:39:59 AM
To prevent those banned users taking subscriptions and then causing trouble at PayPal.
Title: Re: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 07, 2018, 03:30:23 AM
Paypal in itself will not allow you to block specific buyers, and blocking them from the subscriptions in SMF wouldn't necessarily stop them from sending you money.
That being said, I think blocking the visible functionality from a certain membergroup should be fairly easily achieved with little code changes, where as actually disabling the functionality completely would require a lot more. It was not designed with this aspect in mind AFAIK.
Title: Re: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: mnn2 on February 07, 2018, 04:56:12 AM
I just hope the next 2.0.x minor update SMF will provide a way to hide the link base on membergroup.  :)
Title: Re: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: Illori on February 07, 2018, 05:10:11 AM
Quote from: mnn2 on February 07, 2018, 04:56:12 AM
I just hope the next 2.0.x minor update SMF will provide a way to hide the link base on membergroup.  :)

we dont add features to SMF 2.0 as it is feature locked.

if a user is banned from your forum and cannot log in, they cannot even view their profile to attempt to join the group.
Title: Re: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: mnn2 on February 07, 2018, 06:38:24 AM
thanks for info
Title: Re: How to prevent certain users from taking a paid subscription?
Post by: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 08, 2018, 01:53:29 AM
You could perhaps make a mod request for the functionality though :)