Can I have recurring Stripe membership payments and add to cart for PPV?

[cryptotaxfixer]

We’re using WP eStore with WP eMember and Stripe recurring payment subscriptions.

Our site has two separate membership levels, Individual and Small Business.

Now we want to feature two different videos that:

1) Members of either recurring membership can ‘upgrade’ (add to their membership) which would give them access to both videos in their account

OR

2) That a site visitor can purchase PPV (pay per view) per each video and not have to log in or create an account.

Each version of accessing the videos would be a separate price. We already have it set in WP eMember that members can have multiple memberships.

I’ve been referring to this documentation: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/limit-access-to-video-content-on-a-wordpress-site-818, which helps me understand how to create the PPV link that is needed.

But we are using a visual builder and would rather not use all the shortcode setup that is given in that article.

So my main questions are:

– Can we have Stripe recurring payments as our checkout and have an ‘add-to-cart’ process/checkout as well?

– Can we do the PPV as I’d like with the current setup of recurring memberships that we have?

– Should I use the page restriction settings that are available within each page’s settings to tell certain video pages to only be accessible by certain memberships?

Thank you.

[admin]

The subscription will add the membership level to an existing profile (the same way an add to cart checkout would). So that should work fine with multiple membership levels per user feature.

Yeah just protect the page using the normal page protection (instead of the section protection).

However, if you want to sell PPV content without users having to create an account then that one has nothing to do with emember. That one can be achieve using the following feature of eStore (it does rely on shortcode):

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/using-wordpress-permalinks-as-digital-products-apr-1217

[cryptotaxfixer]

Great! This is really helpful. To clarify, for the APR option, how do we set the number of times that someone can view a video:

[wp_eStore_APR expiry=0 status=expired]

Now you don’t!

[/wp_eStore_APR]

Is it for example that we put 10 for ‘expiry=’ and does that mean 10 times they can visit that page/URL? Or is it an amount of time?

Thank you.

[wzp]

But we are using a visual builder and would rather not use all the shortcode setup that is given in that article.

As a precautionary query, which “visual builder” are you going to use?

[admin]

The number of times is controlled by the encrypted download link’s validity. So for this product, you can set the download count to 10. Every click on that encrypted link (the link they receive after the purchase) gives them access to that page. You can adjust that encrypted link’s click count and expiry setup by editing that particular product.

[cryptotaxfixer]

Ok. Thanks for explaining about the expiry and click count.

And regarding what visual builder we’re using, it’s DIVI by Elegant Themes. Why?

Thank you.

[cryptotaxfixer]

Also, with multiple memberships enabled (using Stripe recurring subscription payments), does each membership have its own expiration date and renew per membership level? Each of our membership levels are 1-year from date of purchase and set for auto-renewal.

Or, does the primary membership determine when all membership levels are renewed? And can I manually edit in each member’s account which membership level is their primary one?

[cryptotaxfixer]

Ok. My head is spinning from trying to understand all this. This is what I’d like to do:

A subscription to our Tools is only available to subscribers/members as a subscription upgrade.

There is no expiration on the videos. The Tools subscription expires with the base CTA subscription.

If possible, set them both up to auto-renew.

The price for the Tools subscription is $150 per purchase/renewal.

Is it possible to upsell the initial CTA subscription to get Tools?

If so, offer a 20% off if Tools purchased with base CTA subscription. This 20% not available again. One-time only.

Is this possible? Remember that we’re using your Stripe extension for recurring payments subscription feature.

Thank you.

[wzp]

And regarding what visual builder we’re using, it’s DIVI by Elegant Themes. Why?

Please be advised that if you try to use any DIVI theme related eCommerce features, that you may run into issues:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/wp-affiliate-divi-theme-total-breakdown

[cryptotaxfixer]

Thanks for the article about DIVI. But reading into it further it seems to also be influenced by WooCommerce.

And on this site we’re using WP eStore not WooCommerce, and we’re not using any ‘shop’ features that DIVI has.

If I can get any feedback on the other questions I have, that would be great. Thanks.

[cryptotaxfixer]

So I’ve been making some progress, but when I use the APR shortcode for a PPV, it doesn’t show anything except the video embed html.

This is what I had:

[wp_eStore_APR expiry=0 status=unexpired]

<iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/386002608&#8243; width=”640″ height=”358″ frameborder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; fullscreen” allowfullscreen></iframe>

[/wp_eStore_APR]

Am I doing the video HTML incorrectly? Thanks.

[wzp]

There are restrictions on what HTML code you can place in a WordPress post/page:

https://wordpress.org/support/article/writing-code-in-your-posts/

There is a plugin that you can use to place iframes into a post:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/

[admin]

You can still have the access to the different levels expire based on their expiry settings and starting date. If they have access to at least one level, they account status will still be “active”. But if a certain level within that account doesn’t have access then the content for that level will be hidden from them. You can manually edit accounts and set the main/primary level for a profile (if you want to).

[cryptotaxfixer]

Just FYI that I figured out why the APR shortcode wasn’t working – I had the Redirection plugin set to check pages and posts for URL changes and automatically redirect them. Once I unchecked that, I could place the shortcode with the video html inside a DIVI Text or Code module and it works great.

Now others can know that it doesn’t conflict with DIVI and to beware of URL redirections when using the APR.

Thank you for all your help.

[Author]

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