Plugin & Product Expiry Questions

At current our site is using phpbb, which we manually sign up paid for customers to, and use this to control access to our pages.

Yes I know, how inefficient!..

We are looking at aMember pro with the phpbb plugin.

Q1. Would we be able to easily set existing members to have access to the members only areas? We have 2 existing membeship types, lifetime and 3months, we would need to sign each type up to those products.

Q2. Can we have a lifetime product that doesnt 'expire'? this is obviously a paid for membership.

Q3. Can we change the "amember" folder name, so long as we set the path/name correct in the install section? It would be nice to keep our members area at the same URL for less disruptance to our membership.

Reply #2 - Correct, thankyou
Reply #3 - Correct, thankyou

Reply #1 - Incorrect, and misleading, after purchasing aMember we discovered that our exisiting userbase couldn't just be imported to aMember and signed up to a product. We infact had to reset all of our users passwords to ones we knew, then import the users in aMember, so that the username/password/email matched that in phpbb. We then had to bulk email our memberbase to explain that their passwords had been reset. This took considerable time and was by far not "easily done"

More so I'm quite disappointed that the phpBB plugin hardly integrates with aMember at all. aMember doesnt even work as a single point login in this instance.

It is important that pre-sales questions are answered accuratley, if we had known beforehand we would have still purchased aMember but would have been more aware of the task involved in importing our existing userbase. Also more information on the purchasable plugins and what they actually do, and what their limitations are would be more helpful. We used the demo version of aMember but were unable to demo it with the plugin.