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Tagged: free membership is disabled message, paid membership registration, registration link error, wp membership

  • This topic has 18 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 12 years ago by LoriH.
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  • November 27, 2009 at 12:17 am #490
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    Currently I have a buy now button set to 00.01 to test registration.

    After purchase is complete user will get email with registration link

    Upon clicking registration link in email the user is taken to Free Membership error message.

    Free membership is disabled on this site!

    Please visit the Payment Page to pay for a membership

    What might I be doing wrong?

    I did manually add the email address previously as a memeber, then later deleted it so I could do PayPal test.

    site: [feednaturesway.info]

    November 27, 2009 at 12:43 am #16323
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    Maybe I need to test with a different paypal email… since it was previously registered

    I just noticed when clicking the registration link it logged me in as member of the site with no username.

    November 27, 2009 at 1:15 am #16324
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    I was getting this error when pressing Buy Now button

    Bad Request

    Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

    Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

    Cookie: KHcl0EuY7AKSMgfvHl7J5E7hPtK=…………

    EDIT: CLEARED COOKIES, fine now

    November 27, 2009 at 1:21 am #16325
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    I’m tested with new paypal account and still getting Free Membership error message when clicking registration link from email

    Please help.

    November 27, 2009 at 6:15 am #16326
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    In the mean time I set to “Allow Free Membership”, but only way to get register link is from email after paying. So this creates a duplicate user account in member list, one with no username.

    This leaves a backdoor in to my site for free registration if someone figures out page address.

    I don’t want free membership, but registration link in email does not work. It keeps sending user to error message.

    November 27, 2009 at 6:39 am #16327
    amin007
    Participant

    Lets try to identify the problem… can you please post a link to the page where you have the “Buy Now” button for membership payment?

    November 27, 2009 at 6:50 am #16328
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    Yes, it is

    [http://feednaturesway.info/?page_id=28]

    I turned off free registration

    Thanks for the help

    November 27, 2009 at 7:48 am #16329
    amin007
    Participant

    cool.. everything seems to be okay with the button. Can you please post the link where you have the registration form?

    November 27, 2009 at 7:55 am #16330
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    Sure,

    [http://feednaturesway.info/?page_id=26]

    Turn free on/off?

    November 27, 2009 at 8:10 am #16331
    amin007
    Participant

    Thanks… everything looks fine. What is suppose to happen is that when the unique link is clicked it should display the registration form so the visitor who just paid for the membership can choose his/her username and password and complete the registration.

    For some reason it’s not identifying the unique code in the URL and displaying the proper registration form. I will need to take a look at your system if that possible. I will contact you via email.

    November 27, 2009 at 8:11 am #16332
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    Sure that’s fine.

    Thanks again for the help.

    November 27, 2009 at 9:03 am #16333
    amin007
    Participant

    Just to update this thread.. the actual issue turned out to be a permission problem on the .htaccess file. Because of this permission issue WordPress couldn’t write the rewrite rules for URL.

    November 27, 2009 at 9:32 am #16334
    clintbaptiste
    Member

    Permalinks I think also, I had to change register url to have /login/register/ instead of /?page_id=26/

    and some permission issues with .htaccess file

    Thank you for the help! WOOOHOOOOOO

    Give me virtual Hi Five !!

    April 29, 2013 at 5:53 pm #16335
    LoriH
    Member

    I’m having a similar issue. I’m testing a paid membership with emember. I do NOT have free memberships.

    I’m using wp 3.5.2 and eMember v. 8.6.2 (should all be current)

    The test link for paypal is: [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=J446Z8N7WJN5G]

    Which should take you to the registration form at: [http://unearthyourworth.com/join-us/registration/]

    Instead I get this message:

    Free membership is disabled on this site!

    Please visit the Payment Page to pay for a membership

    Now, free membership IS disabled, but this is a paid membership.

    Also:

    Paypal shows the payment has been processed.

    But there is no actual registration option for the buyer. I do end up with a blank membership ID created. Not good.

    I haven’t done anything to restrict my .htaccess file, but I’m not sure (if that’s the issue) what the proper permissions should be.

    I can access the registration page using the backdoor method (reference the id: 5). But that’s not the way I’d like to go.

    I’m stuck. Please help.

    April 29, 2013 at 11:31 pm #16336
    admin
    Keymaster

    1) First read this documentation so you know what to expect in terms of a paid membership registration flow (what the steps are):

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

    2) Next, make sure that you have created the PayPal button correctly (this documentation tells you what to do):

    http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/how-to-use-a-simple-paypal-payment-button-to-accept-membership-payment-146

    3) When a customer makes a payment using the PayPal button you created, he/she is suppose to get an email with a *special link* that lets them complete the membership registration. Are you getting this email with the link?

    If you are not even getting step 3 to work then it means, eMember is not receiving the payment notification from PayPal after a payment. We will need to figure out where things are going wrong with your PayPal account. Enable debug from the plugin setting which will help with that. This post will tell you how to enable debug:

    https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/wp-emember-and-plain-paypal-button-integration-troubleshooting

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