How to make a user able to use 2 Different Subscriptions in the same time?

[jscmal]

Hi,
I have 2 things:

1 – Subscriptions Plans – (for people who reads my daily contents, posts archive)
2 – Courses – (A selection of pages grouped in a specific category)

Any user can pay and subscribe in a Subscription Plan with a Recurring Payment. This involve a Section of the website.

How make possible that the user that has paid for a Subscription Plan, could also Pay for another thing that is just a 1 time payment, to get the access to a category of another category of the website (where there is the course)?

In practice a user pay 1 time to get the unlimited access to that category of the course OR the user make recurring payments to read the contents archive.

What about if a user that has already a subscription active (contents archive) wants to subscribe also for another thing (course) …. and vice versa?

How does make it possible, using the Simple Membership plugin to have different subscriptions (at least 2) in the same time?

kind regards

G.Aloe

[mbrsolution]

Hi thank you for your question and detail information. The plugin developers will answer your question.

Regards

[admin]

Instead of creating two different subscription you could try the following:

Lets say you have Access Level 1 and Access Level 2. They are connected to 2 different subscription pricing. You can create a 3rd level (lets call it level 3) which gives access to all the content of level 1 and 2 (kind of like an all access pass). Then create a NEW subscription pricing for this new level. Then your users can pay for this level to get access to content of both level 1 and 2.

[jscmal]

Hi,
it is not a good way.

One subscription is a recurring payment. The other one (the Course) is a one time payment.

The plugin doesn’t help to make a third level able to manage the situation without create complicated things for the user.

Another problem is that the solution proposed is not good commercially, no good for business.
I can have a user that is already a subscriber and that has paid ( a lot ) to read the contents that are published continually.

So, There is no sense to ask him to pay again what it has already paid + the extra money for the adding of the new service. This will cause a collapse of the sells and a lot of problems to manage the refund to the users in compensation of the money that they has >newly< paid changing the subscription to include the second service. it’s definitely not good.

Another problem is that to merges a subscription plan where there is recurring payment with another one that has a 1 time payment, the plugin should give a possibility to set a recurring payment where at least the first payment should be higher of the other payments that will be done later.

The plug in offers only trial cycles free at the beginning and the other cycles with a fixed price.

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I can make possible the access to the different contents by different user roles, using specific plugin for it. But the problem about how to make the payment is still there.

What can I do?

I don’t know what to do for now.

[mbrsolution]

@jscmal I have read your comment above and understand what you mean. Unfortunately this plugin is meant for simple membership websites. Your request is rather complex for the functionality of this simple plugin. May I suggest you to check the following plugin eMember which provides what you are after.

Kind regards

[nandotelles]

I have a similar problem to the one presented by @jscmal. My levels of subscriptions are Basic (free) and Premium.

In my case, I want the users of the free Basic subscription to be able to buy an individual content available for the Premium users without necessarily having to subscribe to a Premium membership. So, they could continue with their free subscription and only buy a single content from a paid level. The closest to a solution I have found for that problem is to create a category to each individual content I want to sell, but I came across with another problem: how can I allow access to such individual content to the Basic subscription users who only wants to pay once?
Does anyone have any ideas to help me solve that riddle?

Thank you!

[mbrsolution]

@nandotelles you might like to read the following documentation. I think it is what you are looking for.

[nandotelles]

Thanks @mbrsolution! I’ll take a look at it! 🙂

[vkspec]

@mbrsolution
Is SMP related with emember?
Same site design, same “philosophy”, SMP is like a light (read: more simple) version of emember.
Looks strange because neither SMP nor Tips and Tricks HQ seems to mention this anywhere (or maybe I didn’t see it)

[mbrsolution]

@vkspec, both plugins are different. This is a simple management plugin but with a lot of potential and growing. Whereas eMember is a huge plugin with many options and add-ons and also growing. If you were to compare both plugins it would be like saying Simple Membership is a growing baby and eMember is the grand father and still aging 😉

However the approach of either plugin is slightly different.

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