From my current testing I've got a bad abandonment rate with how amember is setup - and I'm looking to do a "switcheroo" sort to speak. In other wards... When you hit the buy button, you fill out the account registration then pay. I want to reverse it so you pay, then register - as I personally believe it should be. How can this be acheived? Does this involve doing a lot of engineering behind the scenes? Would I Just be better off with an alternative script that can acheive this? Look forward to getting this fixed - and if someone here is interested - yes I'll pay. Thanks, Steve
Most systems use the register ---> pay method for a very good marketing reason. If you have a pay ----> register model and payment cant go thru you have at least captured the applicants details for follow up. Payment may fail due to a number of reasons, insufficient funds, gateway is down, reached for credit card and found the wife took it shopping etc The major logistical hangup with a pay ----> register model is how then if you have a linking problem (server error, passback variables not received etc) do you reconcile the payment with the non registration knowing that a fair amount of people may use a business credit card, a friends card etc which cannot be reconciled to the registration system. You are then left with a paid customer that didnt get to register ....oooops
Here is how i solved it I wanted the same thing... pay, then register... i know the benefit of register then pay... but from my experience, register then pay will make you loose buyers... who will just press back once they see a register form.. rather than the usual clickbank payment page... many reasons, from some being lazy to some being suspicious for not seeing clickbank payment page directly. I have looked a lot for a software that will let you pay then register. There is NONE! The only one is download guard but this one is way bad... they will not protect a members area (in terms of folders). You can only protect html pages with it... they advise you to host the files above public_html or in a weird named folder to protect them!! which is way way bad!! To be able to make pay then register, i made use of amember pro and an online service named e-junkie. The buyer will: 1. Clink on buy link on my site 2. go directly to clickbank and pay 3. e-junkie will then give him a code (which i already made throygh amemebr pro and added them to e-junkie) 4. e-junkie then directs the buyer to the amember sign up page which i make free (as the buyer already paid for it) 5. The buyer has to enter the code given to him by e-junkie (which is known by amember as i made it from amember). I make the signup form to make that coupon code required (so that my free sign up page is protected and no one will be able to make a free sign up without the coupon code). I hope this helps!