Expiration Date On Manual Renewals If a membership is set up such that the automatic renewals are not turned on, the user might attempt to renew their subscription manually.  However, with Paypal, the expiration date in SPMS is not updated to add an additional period to the expiration date. For example, if the expiration date […]

You can automatically enable Simple:Press forums permissions to users who purchase particular subscriptions.  To do this, you should first create your forums and security groups in the Simple:Press Forums plugin. Then, in each membership level in the Simple:Press Member Subscriptions plugin, scroll down to the Simple:Press Forum User Group section and assign a user group […]

Sometimes, instead of hiding just the forum content or portions of the forum content, you might want to hide the entire forum page complete from users who don’t have a particular SPMS membership.  This can be done – but you need the SPMM plugin as well in order to get it done. Assuming you have […]

Both SPMS and SPMM offer the ability to set up custom fields for users.  These fields are separate and distinct in each module.  But, it is possible to sync them up.  The most common scenario is when a field is set up on the SPMS registration page.  But then you require that it be shown […]

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Paypal Express, Paypal Standard and Paypal Website Payments Pro all use a mechanism called “IPN” to communicate its actions back to your website (and to our plugins).  IPN is an acronym for “Instant Payment Notification”. IPN is critical for handling recurring orders.  This is because it is the way that PAYPAL figures out when an […]

Simple:Press Member Subscriptions can be used to set up a number of different membership structures and pricing structures.  However, for most users, there is no reason to set up a membership with both a recurring billing and an expiration date.  You should choose one or the other! The reason is simple – when the recurring […]