Issue with people having access to th members only area without even paying

Discussion in 'Installation' started by webuser99, Jul 8, 2008.

  1. webuser99

    webuser99 New Member

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    If a user registers on my aMember, after they agree to the TOS, it redirects them to paypal to make the payment, at taht time their user status should be 'pending', but if they quit out of the paypal screen, and go back to the members area, they are able to login, and have FULL access to the members area. (minus their account being upgraded on vbulletin via the additional plugin)

    Also, even if they do pay, there status is sometimes pending, and doesnt turn active, I assume these 1 issues are linked together?

    Any ideas? I have put off the release of my subscription system for a very long time, and would love a prompt response!

    Thanks so much!
    webuser99
  2. jimjwright

    jimjwright New Member

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    Hello,

    Once the user leaves your signup page (i.e. they entered member information) and goes to the paypal page to enter their credit card information, 2 things should have happened.

    1. A user record should have been created.
    2. A payment record should have been created that is pending.

    If they don't complete purchase at Paypal then the membership is still valid, meaning they can sign in and access the members area. If you have content (i.e. products, downloads) then you have to protect that content by creating a protection folder where the content to be protected is stored. Have you done this step?

    If they complete the purchase on paypal and they are still marked as pending then something in the IPN mechanism from PayPal to Amember is not working correctly.

    Jimmy

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