We need a slightly different membership sign up flow

[trock]

Hi Amin,

Sorry to be asking so many questions but we are close to launching our membership site and we love this software and the incredible support you give and we are going to be very active affiliates

We’ve almost completed the integration of eMember, eStore and WP Affiliate and we’ve gotten everything working in eMember except one thing that from what we can see is not quite how eMember was designed flow-wise.

We need the Join Us widget to go to the free member Registration page that we’ve created:

http://www.bestinternetmarketingsecrets.org/registration/ that signs them up as a free Basic Member,

but when a person clicks on protected content – in our case, the rest of a video series after the 1st 3 videos in the series have been watched for free, we need the person (whether Basic Member or not) to be directed to a different page that we’ve created that gives them the choice of buying the rest of the videos or signing up as a paid subscriber (Insider Member) for access to all the videos – and then sends them to a paid subscription sign-up/purchase page that we’ll create.

If we put that “buy the videos or join as a subscriber” url in the “Membership Payment/Join Page:” box it works fine for the protected content but then it also shows up in the Join Now widget and sends them to the “buy the videos or join as a subscriber” page, instead of the registration page for new free members that we need to send them to, even though the link above is what is in the Registration Page box.

How can we accomplish what we’re looking to do? i.e Join Now goes to free Registration page and protected content goes to “buy the videos or join as a subscriber” page.

As we create new content in the future we may need to have their protection go to other specific pages too. Is there any way to accomplish this?

Also, how/where can we edit/add to the text on the “Please login to view this content. Not a member? Join Now?” page that comes up.

Thank you.

Tony

[trock]

Also, we just noticed another anomaly – what if a person who is not a Basic Member decides that he wants to buy the Insider Membership instead, how does he get his username and password and how do we get his contact info since the Insider Membership/WP eStore subscription button takes him straight to Paypal to pay?

We’d need a separate Registration page for Insider members – with no Register button but with the register form and the subscribe button – how do we create such a page?

[trock]

Sorry, ignore the last question (but not the big one before it) – I found the answer re how we/they get the membership info at one of your other pages. Thanks.

[amin007]

You want to send all your visitors to the “Join Us” page then they can decide which path to go for (free or one of the paid options). This page will explain more:

The Difference Between Registration Page and Join Us Page

The basic idea for sending everyone to a generic “Join Us” page is because when a user is anonymous the software doesn’t know their intention (if they want to be a free member or a paid member).

[trock]

Hi Amin,

We did study that page and many other related pages before writing.

No, the point is that what they describe is exactly what we don’t want to do.

We need 2 things:

1) When a person tries to access the protected videos they have to go to a page that we have created that gives them the choice of buying the video series or subscribing as a premium member for unlimited access (and only those choices).

2) From the Join Us link in the widget we want new people to go to the free membership registration page (only).

We can easily accomplish 1) but where it becomes a problem is that when we put the desired page in the appropriate box it also causes the Join Us widget link to go to the video choice page instead of the Free Registration page.

We will also want to be able to send different kinds of future protected content to appropriate pages of our choice.

It seems from everything I’ve read that the only way we are going to be able to accomplish the above is by custom-modifying eMember, right? I guess we’d need to use some kind of “if they are coming from “x” page/link, then send them to “y” page” code? Or can we use re-direction?

Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks.

[amin007]

It seems like you want the following:

– Non-members will only be given the opportunity to signup as a free member first (you already have this figured out).

– After they become a member and have seen the videos you to up-sell them to the premium membership.

When your visitors are logged in as a free member they don’t see the usual “join us” or “login” message anymore. When a member stumbles upon some protected content that his membership level doesn’t have access to, he is shown some “Content is protected” type message.

So in your case all you need to do is customize the “Content is protected” messages (displayed to free members when they try to access paid content) to include a link to your hidden up-sell page. This page explains how you can customize the message that gets displayed to the users:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/how-to-customize-various-textmessages-displayed-by-the-plugin

When you customize those messages you can add HTML Links there too. For exmaple, the following:

define("EMEMBER_CONTENT_RESTRICTED","Content is restricted.");

can be changed to the following:

define("EMEMBER_CONTENT_RESTRICTED","Content is restricted. <a href="www.example.com/your-hidden-payment-page">Please buy the premium membership</a>");

There are a few different protected message that gets displayed based on various scenario. You can modify them all.

[trock]

Thank you, this – how to customize the messages – is very much what we wanted to know and will be very useful. Ideal for us would instead be a full page that we could customize the design of content of, and until we figure out how to do this at least we can link to pages using the method you outlined above.

Our scenario is slightly different than you describe though – as we want anyone (whether free member or visitor) to be able to view our 1st 3 videos in any series, and this is where we’re running into brick walls.

It’s beginning to look like our only option is to force them to become free members first – not our first choice but we will discuss and see if it can work for us.

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