How to upgrade subscription level

I will be using aMember Pro with a custom plugin for my gallery/blogging system. I will offer 3 levels of subscription:

BRONZE - $30/yr
SILVER - $60/yr
GOLD - $90/yr

Each subscription corresponds to a different user group in my gallery/blog. Now for the question:

If a customer signs up for BRONZE and then after several months wants to upgrade to SILVER, how is that handled? Do they need to cancel the BRONZE and then buy a new SILVER? Is there an option to Upgrade within aMember? I'm trying to figure out what steps the user needs to make, what steps aMember does, and what steps the administrator does. Specifically with regards to how the billing in such a scenario works.

Thanks for your help.

-Joe

Alex,

I understand there is no handling for Upgrades, however I think Joe (and I) are looking for a way to handle this issue.

What would you specifically recommend with the scenario Joe gave?

The way I see it, is the only way to upgrade would be for the user to cancel the first subscription and then re-sign for the second.

It seems that with a membership handling program, this issue would come up almost all the time...

Thanks in advance for your response.

-Elliott

Membership Upgrade

I'm having some difficulty with this. I'm getting ready to go live and while testing, I did just that, I canceled a membership and then purchased the next higher membership. The result was I had a cancel subscription and one waiting to start 1 month from the end date of the cancelled one.

Is there something I need to set to make this happen automatically?

Thanks,

John

Alex, it was just a test on my site to get familiar how membership upgrades are handled. I had 1 membership set for 2 days, calcelled it before it expired and purchased the next higher membership. Even though I cancelled the lower membership, the higher membership still showed that it would not be active until the cancelled lower membership reached it's expiration date.

I have a question. When a user cancels their subscription in PayPal, I see that PayPal sends the subscriber cancel to amember via the IPN. It says it was successfully handled. However, subscribers accounts with the paypal payment method, it still shows a high date of like 2012/2013 or some future year.

The user cancelled the subscription to upgrade to a a different plan or different payment method. So my question is, when the PayPal subscription cancel comes in and amember says it handled it... what exactly is it doing, because it doesn't show like it changed any dates or anything or cancelled the subscription.

I understand that part, but it seems that the way the PayPal script is handling it, is that is won't expire until like 2013 so they'd have access indefinately.... unless something happens internally that isn't being relayed...