Forced Continuity Question - 1 lifetime + 1 recurring product

Discussion in 'Payments processing' started by dhales, Feb 25, 2009.

  1. dhales

    dhales New Member

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    I'm trying to setup a transaction process that will go something like this:

    Customer purchases product A ($47.00 lifetime subscription), at the same time they are forced in to product B (30 day trial period then $17.00 monthly recurring). If a customer elects to opt out of my monthly membership I'd still like them to have access to product A.

    Can amember achieve this type of of a transaction?

    Thanks in advance for your assistance.
    -Derek
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    I give a complimentary plugin as a bonus item to my premium members- this will allow you to add a 2nd complimentary product to your subscription product, so if they cancel the subscription they still have the 2nd product.

    David
  3. greyhart

    greyhart New Member

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    Ok, if I understand this correctly, Both the 30 day trial (monthly continuity) as well as the original product must both be sold through the aMember process. Correct?

    Product A is whatever, Product B is the trial membersip for 30 days, to be billed every 30 days after the first month.

    So if Product A is the same price as the monthly subscription B, I can basically just do a recurring payment for subscrition B, and give them a link to, or send them Product A.

    What if Product A is more or less than Subscription B? I want Product A to be $59.97, and Subscription B to be $30 a month. Purchasing Product A gets you a 30 day trial to Subscription B.

    How can I set that up?
  4. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Bundle A&B together:

    Trial price $59.95
    Trial Duration 30 days

    Price $30
    Duration 1 mos

    This will give you a lead product of $59.95 and 30 days free trial, then $30 a month continuity. If they cancel, they lose access to the lead product, which is why i had the complimentary plugin created. This will add a lifetime access to A as well.

    David
  5. stsmarketing

    stsmarketing New Member

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    Ok, how about we take this to tricky land now?

    Say you have product A, which has a lifetime subscription. One time purchase to access certain content.

    Then you have product B, which has a recurring monthly subscription.

    What if I want to make continued access to product A contingent on a recurring subscription to content B.

    For example, a certain amount of content (product A) is available for say... $50. But you must maintain an active subscription (product B at.. say $20 / month) to continue to receive access to product A.

    Possible? Of course. But does amember support this out of the box or is there a plugin out there that does this?

    I know that there is "Require another subscription to order this product" but the keyword there is order. This wouldn't disable a subscription that was already in place, would it?

    Exploring the rabbit hole deeper, what if I wanted a user to have access to product A for a certain amount of time, regardless of other subscriptions, but then continued access if they picked up or renewed a recurring product.

    Example would be someone buys product A. They get access to product A for 3 months, but after that, they must subscribe to product B for continued access. Since product B offers things not available to product A, the user may or may not have a subscription to product B for those first 3 months.
  6. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Just keep them in the same product then.
    Product A and B together, become Product C

    For altering the length of the added complimentary product, Larry at Jlogica, has an advanced complimentary plugin that you can set the time length with.

    David
  7. stsmarketing

    stsmarketing New Member

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    I forgot to answer my own post. I went with pretty much what you were describing David.

    What I did was create product C and D. Product C is a combination of products A and B. Product D is a lifetime membership which is really nothing but a placeholder gateway.

    When the user subscribes, they are subscribing to A, C, and D. If they cancel product C, which is the combined product, product A, which is the non-recurring content, will still be active. Once the life of product A ends, product C will still give access to product A as long as the subscription remains active.

    Product D is there to allow them to resubscribe to product C again if they decide to cancel their subscription while product A's lifetime is still in effect, and then realize they need product C to continue to get access to product A.

    My only problem is that since I had 3 product A's, and 4 product B's, I now have 55 products. Thank goodness for price groups AND allowing multiple price groups per product. PHEW.

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