Buying into a membership group and discount pricing per item.

[HappyMom]

I am trying to set up the site to have 2 user group levels (public w/no discount & member w/discount) which have group pricing on a per item basis. Ideally, the website would sell the membership and handle the user groups automatically. Im trying to avoid reinventing the wheel here and did some minimal poking around and found several threads where such functionality had been asked for, however, Ive not found a definite answer. If there is something anyone can point me to it would be greatly appreciated.

Currently I am looking at using the Group Pricing (per item) add on to set this up. One problem is that it would leave the admin to setup the user groups, and it creates a delay between purchase of the membership and the time they get a discount. I had thought of a potential solution to this by creating a downloadable file for a one month temporary membership card that would have a discount code they could use to get the member price. Am I going down the right path with this or am I chasing my tail?

I need exactly the same thing too. I am also doing it manually, but I need this to be automatically, once they purchase the membership.

I was thinking that to do this, I would had to add code that basically says: if the product that you purchase is "BLA", then update the customer's group pricing. The problem I have is that I am not very familiar with how checkout process.