Membership

[adb34]

Another stupid question from me.

Is it possible to site up a site with membership? if so please could I have a couple of pointers?

Thank you

andy

[Ajeh]

By member ship, do you mean use the settings in Configuration ... Customer Details ...

Customer Shop Status - View Shop and Prices
Customer must be approved to shop
0= Not required
1= Must login to browse
2= May browse but no prices unless logged in
3= Showroom Only

Customer Approval Status - Authorization Pending
Customer must be Authorized to shop
0= Not required
1= Must be Authorized to Browse
2= May browse but no prices unless Authorized
3= Customer May Browse and May see Prices but Must be Authorized to Buy

It is recommended that Option 2 or 3 be used for the purposes of Spiders

[adb34]

No, sorry. What I am after, and I should have a bit more clear, is a customer pays a membership to get access to the site E.G. £100 per year

[mc12345678]

Method I could see that would work with this "requirement" is to have a plugin that allows customers to be placed in different groups. "All" of your product is in the new group, a membership fee product is in the everybody group. Ideally, once payment is received for the membership product, then the individual is automatically granted access to the other group.

[frank18]

You could try this plugin: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1234

Then set up one category (openly accessible) where customers can pay their membership. Once they paid you grant them 'special privileges' and they can access every other category.

Try this demo.

Worth a thought.

[adb34]

Thanks for the info guys

[adb34]

You could try this plugin: ....

I have checkout your plugin and I am sorry to say this is not what I am looking for

.... is to have a plugin that allows customers to be placed in different groups. "All" of your product is in the new group, a membership fee product is in the everybody group. Ideally, once payment is received for the membership product, then the individual is automatically granted access to the other group.

Do you know which plugin this is? I have had a look and cannot find one.

Thanks all again

[adb34]

For the membership fee, could it be possible to use and some modification, use the 'gift certificates' function?

[schoolboy]

For the membership fee, could it be possible to use and some modification, use the 'gift certificates' function?

The suggestions made so far are sensible. There's no "out the box" feature for what you need, so you need to adapt what's there, or (if you have funds to invest) get someone to write a module for you.

Question: Once people are "members", what does the site do for them? Is there going to be functionality within the site that is exclusive for members - or is the site there just to enable sign-up and the payment of membership fees?

By following AJEH's example of restricting access only AFTER you have authorised a login, you can then point approved "customers" to the membership fees "product" where they can then pay.

[adb34]

...Question: Once people are "members", what does the site do for them? Is there going to be functionality within the site that is exclusive for members - or is the site there just to enable sign-up and the payment of membership fees?
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I really should have explained what I was after. I know what I wanted but sorry I did not explain;

Most of the products on the site will be accessed via a subscription. The subscription will either be by the month or by the year. When the subscription expires, they cannot get access to anything until they re-subscribe. One or two products will be for sale. discounted if a subscriber.