paid Subscriptions in SMF

[msab]

i am new to SMF so maybe my question seems simple but actually i don't know how to do it ..my question is how to add  new membergroup based on paid Subscriptions?? and users can upgrade their membership..
ex:
group1->Free(automatically by registration)
group2->Member1
group3->Member2
group4->Member3

[Arantor]

A subscription gets configured to add an already existing membergroup to a user when they buy the subscription, and on confirmation of payment, it will automatically put that member into that group.

So you create a Paid group or whatever you want to call it, create a subscription that adds that group, and when people buy, it's just done for you.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

If PayPal implemented scheduled security upgrades in June (believe they did), you must be running in https for Paid Subs to work correctly.

[msab]

A subscription gets configured to add an already existing membergroup to a user when they buy the subscription, and on confirmation of payment, it will automatically put that member into that group.

So you create a Paid group or whatever you want to call it, create a subscription that adds that group, and when people buy, it's just done for you.

thank you so much but how to assign the free membership for all users? the available Group Types don't contain this feature i think !!

[Arantor]

Everyone is already in a group - Regular Members - by default.

[msab]

when i add a new membergroup it appears under the regular groups table...how to make it appear in a new independent table ?
also when i finished all the steps nothing appear in the home or profile page about the paid subscription is it normal? or do you know why?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

There are only two types of membergroups, Regular groups and Post count based groups.  Any new group you create will be listed as a regular group.  Not to be confused with Regular Members, which is default membergroup, and is not listed as a separate group.

[msab]

There are only two types of membergroups, Regular groups and Post count based groups.  Any new group you create will be listed as a regular group.  Not to be confused with Regular Members, which is default membergroup, and is not listed as a separate group.

thank you so so much for the clarification but also when i finished all the steps nothing appear in the home or profile page about the paid subscription is it normal? or do you know why?

[Illori]

have you enabled the paid subs feature under core features?

[msab]

yes i did

[Illori]

then you create your groups, then create the paid sub to go with it. the users can pay/join from their profile.

[msab]

okay i did exactly what you told me and it works fine now but there is another problem in the database in smf_members table the id_group attribute values equal zeros except the admin value equal one and id_post_group values equal four so where is the new membergroup id's?? should i add some code to show it or what ??

[Kindred]

have you been editing your database directly?

If so - do not do that.

When you create a new group and make it subscribable, the user can join the group from their profile page. That's the place that the group(s) will show.   You can also use that page to find the specific links and create direct links in other places (like a menu or a list of possible subscriptions)

[msab]

thank you so much everything works fine now ....and also i used this mod to assign the first level of membership automatically for every registered user
mod url: https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1804

[Kindred]

I'm glad it works for you now.... although that mod was not actually necesarry, since all users default to the "regular members" group when they are not assigned to any other group --   which makes more sense than your option, IMO...  because when a user subscribes and gets into a paid group, but then lets the subscription expire -- you are going to want them to automatically fall back into the unpaid group -- which, based on the core code, will be the "regular members"

[msab]

i installed this mod because i needed to change the primary member group from Newbie to free ...i wanted to make the free member group as the default member group

[Arantor]

Users are always in at least two groups, a primary group and a post count group. All you've done is change the default primary group...