Is this possible with aMember?

I want to handle site signup separately from product purchases using aMember. Here's how I'd like it to work:

I want everyone to register or login when visiting the site. This will gain them access to special the secure section of the site. Once they are logged in, they can choose to only go into the free areas, or purchase products (classes).

Here's a simple diagram of what I'd like to do. Is this possible with aMember?



Any ideas or help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

renee

Yep.

Just create a free signup product that's visible on signup only, and then hide all the others from the payment page (set to "members completed subscription only" - see the image below):

Awesome! This is fantastic news. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to use aMember after all.

Thanks, miso!

renee

Well, I tried this approach and it worked fine with having only the free access on the signup page. But after that, I ran into trouble trying to purchase the paid content access.

Here's my protected folder setup:

Product: Free Membership
Protected Folder: Freebies
Product Visibility: Only Signup (hide from member.php page)

Product: Class 1
Protected Folder: Class1
Product Visibility: Only Members having completed subscriptions (hide from signup.php page)

Product: Class 2
Protected Folder: Class2
Product Visibility: same as Class 1

So in my test run I clicked the link to purchase Class 1. aMember correctly routed me to the login.php page. I selected the "Signup here" link and got signup.php, filled it in and it accepted my membership. I clicked the Login link and logged in. No problem so far.

I navigated back to the page with the class links and clicked Class 1 again. But instead of giving me an opportunity to purchase Class 1, it redirected me back to login.php but with the following red error message:

I also received the following system warning message at the top of the page:

I'm at a loss as to what to do about this. I want a logged-in person to be able to select the class they want and pay for it. aMember seems to be forcing an extra step by requiring the student go to the membership info page instead.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

renee

Thanks, Skippy. I had not planned to use any product to serve the content. I'm planning to manage that myself. I took a look at your product but I couldn't find any pricing info. How much does it cost?

Thanks!

renee

Renee, eFront has an open-source, free product, based on php and mysql. skippybosco convinced me to migrate to eFront from Moodle and I've been pleased so far.

You can download it at http://www.efrontlearning.com/download/download-efront.html

Trevan