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I think I figured out a way.
Set up a new membership that’s a duplicate of the faculty (free) membership, and put a time limit on it (however long the class is, 90 days or whatever). Does this sound like the best alternative?
Mr./Ms. Admin,
I made a mistake when making the IPN URL. In the /eMember_handle_paypal_ipn.php code, there was an extra character in our site url.
Solved! Works perfectly now.
Thank you so much for all your help here.
John
Wait – I haven’t registered yet – it doesn’t have any email address for me. So how is the “pre registration” invoked (with only your first & last name and email address)?
Admin, thanks so much for your information. I reviewed all the info; you’re right, everything looks set up correctly, but I’ve identified the missing link. This is what is NOT happening:
3) The student will receive an email with a unique link in it after the payment.
When I go to the join page, click the (student membership) paypal button, I am routed to paypal, I make the payment, I immediately get a payment confirmation from PP, but I am not sent a registration link.
Why not? – I think that’s the only thing that’s wrong here.
Thanks so much for the info. Sorry guys, but what I’m seeing isn’t making any sense. I’m afraid I’m still confused about how to successfully set up our memberships. I’ll explain what I’ve done and the results so far as thoroughly as I can. If this doesn’t suffice, I can set up a eMember administrator as a temporary admin on our site to see any necessary settings if that would help.
1. Regarding hiding membership level – I did hide this field (then un-hid it) via the pages/forms settings, but whether it’s hidden or not, the default value is “Faculty”, which is UNEDITABLE. We have two memberships, Faculty and Student. Faculty is our FREE membership (after approving credentials), Student is a paid membership. But because the (uneditable) default value in the membership is “Faculty”, any student (or anyone at all) can sign up for free and have immediate access to ALL content (faculty and students have access to all content). Not what we want. Is the membership field in the registration form defaulting to Faculty because there is no fee associated with it (our default free membership)? – see:
[http://informaticseducation.org/join-us/registration/]
Btw, Faculty membership ID = 6, Student membership ID = 4 if that helps deduce anything here.
2. My understanding after reading through the documentation thus far is that regardless of membership level, people must register FIRST before they can select or upgrade to a paid membership. Please look at our join us page:
[http://informaticseducation.org/join-us/]
Say I’m a student. I click the PayPal button and pay for the student membership (fee is temporarily set to one penny if you want to try it, and is also set up with PayPal with the aforementioned student membership ID of “4”). The PayPal process works and returns you to a welcome page on the site. But I haven’t registered and defined a membership yet. When I do, I’m registering as “faculty” because that’s the (only) uneditable value on the registration page (therefore, I needn’t pay at all).
According to your documentation:
WP eMember uses one registration form which is capable of detecting which membership level a user is permitted to signup for and allows the user to register for that level. — not seeing this at all, only seeing “Faculty”
Lets say for example, a user goes to your site and pays for the “Gold” membership level, then after the payment the plugin will only let this user register for the Gold membership level. — not seeing this at all either; when a student registers, they’re registering as “Membership: Faculty”
If a user directly goes to the registration page without paying for any membership then the plugin will only allow this user to signup for a free membership account given you (the admin) allow free membership on your site. — I am seeing this, but this is not what we want. Regardless of OUR memberships, students and faculty have access to exactly the same content. Only difference is students (should) have to pay, faculty doesn’t.
Please help me understand the registration/membership relationship, what is supposed to happen first, and then the correct sequence of events, and where/when/how the correct memberships are selected, detected, and function appropriately.
Thank you,
John
Sorry, I forgot. Actual eMember login page that does work is: http://informaticseducation.org/wp/member-login/
