Greetings, I'm considering purchasing amember to launch a new membership site and I just had a few quick questions. 1. For my membership I am envisioning the following: When a customer purchases a product they will be forced into a recurring billing membership. The first month will be free and after that a monthly fee will kick in. I'd like to have premium content available to members who are part of the recurring billing membership, which I intend to manage with both wordpress and phpBB3. Will amember allow me to protect the wordpress and phpbb3 sections while still allowing members who have elected to leave the membership access to their product downloads (as the product will be updated from time to time). 2. Secondly, if amember can do these things will I need the wordpress integration plugin and / or the phpbb3 integration plugin? 3. Currently I manage my products through clickbank. I have 2 transaction paths, one which includes product A and a second which includes product A + Product B (an upsale product). Would it be easier to add a recurring billing aspect to this transaction cycle with clickbank or another payment processing method? What concerns me the most is clickbank's ability to handle various stages of membership overtime (ex. I will likely include an initial charter member rate and increase this rate after a few months). Thank in advance for your time.
Yes you can do this using the complimentary plugin basic, available as a bonus for my premium members, or the advanced version which can be purchased at jlogica. Theres a demo video of this on my site too- free registration required. This depends on your setup- if you use the "walled garden" approach where the whole blog is protected, you may not need the wordpress plugin unless you want members to comment. For a "magazine model" where non-members can see teaser text, you will need the plugin. But for PHPBB3 you will need it for both designs. You can use clickbank, but i think you will need to create a new clickbank product for every change in rate. David