How to make membership not to expire after stopping recurring billing (PayPal)

I need to give my customers 30 day trial to my site for $1, then charge then one-time payment of $97. There are 2 possible scenarios to that:

Scenario 1:
30 days trial for $1, then one-time payment if $97. If they cancel the trial (i.e. don't pay the $97), they will keep the membership access forever.

Scenario 2:
30 days trial for $1, then one-time payment of $97. If they don't cancel the trial, then after a successful $97 payment they will get an additional access to a different members' area (folder). They will keep the membership access to both areas forever.

In other words - I have a product for $1. If you don't cancel and pay another $97 after 30 days, you will get extra access.

I've created a PayPal recurring payment - 30 days trial for $1, then $97 one recurring payment. However, I assume that after that month their membership will expire and they will lose access, which I don't want. Even if it didn't expire it still doesn't solve the problem of separating those who canceled and those who paid.

Any idea how to do that?

Mystery,

I think this link is addressing what you need to do.

http://www.amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12109

I have partially solved my problem by purchasing the "Complimentary" plugin - http://jlogica.com/jess/?act=product&id=2
I bundle a 'copy' of my $1 product (the same product with Scope set to disabled) as a "free" never expiring product with my main product. This way they will have access to the site no matter what.

Now I have to figure out how to set 'no expiration' on the main product for those who don't cancel and actually pay $97.

I wonder if this would work:

PHP:

<?php
setup_plugin_hook("finish_waiting_payment", "fwp");
function fwp($pid){
    global $db;
    $p = $db->get_payment($pid);
     /// Do not execute anything for other products..
    if($p[product_id] != 2) return;
    $cnt = $db->query_one("select count(*) from amember_payments
                                      where product_id='$p[product_id]' and member_id='$p[member_id]' and completed=1");
    // If 2 payments are made ($1 trial + $97 one-time payment)
    if($cnt==2){
    // Last payment change it's expiration date to 12-31-2037;.
       $p[expire_date] = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0,0,0,12,31,2037));
       $db->update_payment($pid, $p);
    }
}

?>


I'm not a programmer, just trying some reverse engineering with the code from here: http://www.amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12109
Any help is welcome.

Paypal (regular) wont do a trial followed by 1 payment- they require a min of 2 payments (cycles).

My lifetime plugin may help with this:
http://www.amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10046

Possibly the complimentary plugin as well:
http://www.amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9462

David

Thanks for the replies.

What you are saying is that it's not possible to set "Recurring Times" to 1?
So I can't have a product "$1 trial for 30 days, then 1 payment of $97" ?

But on PayPal checkout page under terms it says: $1.00 USD for the first 30 days
Then $97.00 USD for one month. So why that wouldn't work?


What are my options here? Which of these would work?:
-30 days trial for $47, then 1 payment of $47 (it's the same thing as above, so I guess this one is a no-go)
-2 payments of $47

-any other idea?

This example and my testing shows that it's possible to have a trial followed by 1 payment:

http://www.jkquilting.com/z_code/Subscription_Example_1.html
(click the subscribe button to see the PayPal page)

If you say it can't be done, is it Amember's limitation?

OK, it used to not work- and the paypal button creation still has a 2 as the minimum period- but clearly its working!

Good to know!

David

Thanks for your replies. The trial/1 payment seems to be working as well as the code.

my site

Hi,

I am going to be using the + 1 feature on my site so can i find out if the version I have features it, mine was bought on 12/ Mar /2010.

Or is this the 'Paypal Recurring' feature added to the latest version of amember released recently?

Thanks

Simon

For a trial + single payment, yeah, you need 3.1.9.

David