Membership levels on per product basis + clickbank integration question

[mithrandir]

Greetings,

i’m trying to structure a membership site in a sub-folder of my main site, using also Optimizepress.

The site has a membership level for free registration.

The site is using domain wide level lockdown feature redirecting to the login page.

The free registration enables some contents in the protected membership site.

Now I want to do this:

Create a membership level for a wordpress plugin product that i want to sell for a single time payment and i want to use Clickbank for selling this.

So i was thinking that we have 2 cases for a user.

-> User is already registered to the free membership level

So, in this case, after the payment with clickbank, i’d like to add the paid membership level (of the product) to the basic free membership and enabling relative paid content (I already checked the option for secondary membership level in the settings for stacking the levels)

-> User is not registered to my site

In this case, i’d like to make the user register to the site and having the basic free membership and the membership of the product added to that user.

Therefore we have 2 cases:

case 1:

sales page of the product -> click on clickbank button -> my membership site -> paid membership level added to the free one

case 2:

sales page of the product -> click on clickbank button -> my membership site -> a new registration is done with free membership level and paid product mebership

I read the registration flow, but i think i didn’t find my case.

The questions are:

1) how can i structure the membership site, which pages should i create to structure it like the 2 scenarios described above?

2) does this hidden field

<input name="membership_level_id" type="hidden" value="1" />

works if the click from the buy button of the upper site, that is:

mysite.com -> clickbank buy button -> clickbank -> returns to mysite.com/members/thankyou

3) if my membership site is wide locked and the only available pages are join us and registration, etc

what should i put as thank you page in the product description inside clickbank, considering the above description?

Please can you help me?

thanks a lot

best regards

Guido

[admin]

Hi, The membership registration flow number 2 should work for you. Have a look at the video that should give you some basic understanding:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/a-typical-member-registration-flow-96

Whenever, you want to make it so only a member (free member in this case) can purchase a product, you simply protect/hide the purchase button so it is not visible to users who are not logged in.

There are a few ways you can design the registration/purchase scenario. I will explain one that seems logical to me given what you want to do.

1) Go to the section where you have your “Call to action button” (the clickbank purchase button)

2) Add section content protection around this button so only logged in users of free membership level can see that button. You learn how to do section protection here:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/?p=88

3) Now you have the following two scenarios:

Scenario a) Users who are not logged into the site

-> You tell them to go to the “Free user registration” page and signup for a free account.

-> Then they can log into the site

-> They will now be able to see the purchase button and purchase the item

Scenario b) Existing user who already have a free membership account

-> You tell them to log into the site using the login form

-> They will now be able to see the purchase button and purchase the item

In order to hook a ClickBank purchase button with eMember’s membership, you will need to follow this documentation:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/?p=470

You can exclude certain pages from the site wide lockdown feature. So for example, go to eMember settings and exclude the “Thank You” page of your site so anyone can view it.

Let me know if that makes sense.

[mithrandir]

Thanks a lot for your help, but i don’t think that your solution is viable for my situation.

For selling the plugin, i made a sales page

you can see it here: [http://www.strumentidimarketing.it/google-plus-il-protettore/]

it’s in italian, but i think it makes sense to you.

The buy button will be at the end of the page, below the demo link

I can’t put a section protection there, it’s not marketing compliant.

The “magic” should start after the payment.

So what could it be done, in your opinion?

I was thinking to put in the thank you page something like:

Are you already registered?

go here and login

Are you not registered? make the registration here

but then i don’t know how to solve the upgrade of the membership problem.

I was thinking to put on a page (visible only from the free membership level the shortcode to upgrade to level 2), but the page it would be visibile from all users of the membership level, so i was searching for an automatic way, after the payment, to make the upgrade.

Continuing the description made above, i don’t know how to communicate this url (for upgrading) to the user who made the payment.

I hope to be clear

thanks

best regards

[admin]

FYI – You can’t upgrade a user’s account if you don’t force the user to log into the site somehow BEFORE the purchase. This is why sites like amazon, apple itunes require you to register and login first before you can purchase anything.

With that said, eMember already has does a check with the email address to see if an account already exists after a membership payment. If it finds an account then it will upgrade that existing account and apply the purchase to that account. So given your scenario, you shouldn’t need to do anything other than to just let your users purchase this premium membership level item. The two scenarios after the purchase are:

1) The user already has a free account. The plugin will use the email address to determine this and if it finds an existing account, it will apply the sale to this account

2) The user is new, in this case a new account will be created for this user and a “Registration completion” email will be send to the customer. The customer can click on the registration completion link from the email and complete the registration as usual.

Let me know if that helps.

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