duplicate emails, disable mandatory email and reminder email to admin

[Elbobiam]

Hi,

Thank you for such a great product.

I have 3 questions which may push the boundaries of what eMember can do. However, I am being asked by my client to implement them.

1) is there any way to disable the mandatory email. The site I have been developing is also being used as back office system and there are some members who do not have emails and will never get emails (due to the age and desire). I’m happy to edit the php with direction.

2) some of the members have an affiliate society who work for, so they have the same email address for both there own personal and the affiliate society account. Is there a way of supporting this.

3) finally, is there any way of sending a reminder email to admin as well as the member when the subscription is about to expire?

Any help would be grateful.

Kind regards

using eMember Version v8.3.1 and sStore Version v6.9.1.7

[admin]

Hi,

1) I am guessing by “disable” you mean not have the email field at all correct? If my guess is right then that will be a bit of an issue. Online Membership systems heavily rely on the email field. Remember, the email address doesn’t have to be a valid one (unless you tell the plugin to validate email). So when entering info from the back end, the admin can enter a dummy email address (example: dummy@email.com) in that field for users who do not have an email address.

2) I am not sure how this is an issue. eMember will make sure that an email address is used once by one user account in the WordPress system where it is installed. It doesn’t care about what email the user maybe using on an affiliate society site. Maybe I am not understanding what you mean by affiliate society?

3) There is an option to sent an automated email to the member when the subscription is about to be expired or has expired. Check the “email settings” menu in eMember. Admin doesn’t get this notification because the admin can go to the “manage members” menu of the plugin and find out all the accounts that are expiring from there.

[Elbobiam]

Thank you Admin,

1) By ‘disable’, I mean the fact that it is ‘Required’ field and the rest of the details can not be updated without entering an email. I assumed putting in a dummy email would be the case.

2) I meant that they would ‘need’ to use the same email for the two accounts.

3) Yes, I’ve got that set up, but I wondered if there was a way of adding an administrators email to be kept up to date without having to go onto the website to check, as some of the emails will be dummy emails (point 1).

Finally, would there be any reason why the ‘Create WordPress User Account for members that do not have one’ in the Admin Functions would not work for a couple of eMembers?

Thank you again for this awesome product and your swift support.

Kind regards

[admin]

Hi, Are these two accounts that you are referring to “wordpress user” accounts? Remember, WordPress doesn’t let you create two accounts using the same email address (this is why, in eMember we had to add a check to make sure an email address is not taken by an existing user). If you are not talking bout WordPress user accounts then there is no issue with it.

If a members’s record is in a “need to be completed” state then WP user account won’t be created for those emember accounts. Basically, the entries without any username (these indicate that the account registration is yet to be completed by the user).

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