Membership Levels, Upgrades, Pricing

Discussion in 'Payments processing' started by jasonbcil, Mar 30, 2009.

  1. jasonbcil

    jasonbcil New Member

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    Okay, I'm trying to figure out how to structure my membership levels and pricing, and not sure how to pull it off in amember.

    Product 1: has access to A for 6 months for $30
    Product 2: has access to A and B for 1 year for $60
    Product 3: has access to A, B, and C for 1 year for $120

    Now, it makes sense to me to create separate amember products for each of these. What I don't get or understand, is how to implement an UPGRADE process.

    If PERSON signs up for Product 1, and a 3 weeks later decides they also want the goods in Product 2, how do I setup the upgrade path for this in amember?

    PERSON has already paid $30 which I don't want to count for nothing. Optimally it'd be great if the system could calculate the price difference between memberships levels and prorate a charge based on when the upgrade was made, but I'm certain that's not possible in Amember.

    Any suggestions for how to implement a tiered membership plan that has a clear upgrade path, which doesn't rip off me OR the customer?
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    This gets tricky. The simplest thing is to create an in-between product for existing members.
    Product 1: has access to A for 6 months for $30
    Product 2: has access to A and B for 1 year for $60

    becomes an upgrade procduct
    Product 2 Upgrade: has access to A and B for 1 year for an extra $30

    What gets messy with this is, what if they cancel product 1.. they still are running #2 and getting access.

    Other option:
    If you are billing locally, Larry at Jlogica has a plugin that will cancel the prevois product when they upgrade. If its a local billing- this will also stop the former product being billed- if its paypal etc.. then the billing will continue unless you manually cancel it in paypal.

    David
  3. jasonbcil

    jasonbcil New Member

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    Thanks David. I'm actually quite disappointed that amember has so little functionaility when it comes to tiered memberships.

    I got the jlogical Kill plugin, but does anyone know if it works with the Authorize.NET CIM beta integration? I don't actually know how that's implemented, I know its different than the authorize.net Recurring plugin....
  4. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Does this do the billing locally, or on their server?
    If local- it should work.

    David

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