Membership

[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.

[adb34]

Could I add a count down to the customers account? so when they buy a membership, that sets up a clock the does a countdown. I have seen some JS that do countdowns for special events.

[mc12345678]

Could I add a count down to the customers account? so when they buy a membership, that sets up a clock the does a countdown. I have seen some JS that do countdowns for special events.

Not sure which method you went with, but the only thing that comes to mind is that the countdown would only be available while logged in.

So, with that in mind, the criteria to display the countdown would be:
If a customer is logged in, and the customer has said product in their orders, and the next action hasn't been taken (don't know what is to happen between purchase and completion of the countdown), then display the countdown.
Would suggest a "success" notification in place of the above, depending on where it is displayed/intent.
That would be basically the above, except the next action is instead complete.

As to the countdown completion date, would need somewhere a duration to be entered (as compared to only an end date for a special event as the completion date is unique to each customer rather than a specific event date), either as an admin switch, or a file define or associated with a product in the database, depending on the future use of the modification (which could be turned into a plugin).

So, yes, can do it...