Testing aMember Products on a Live Site

Discussion in 'Installation' started by eslpod, Jun 21, 2007.

  1. eslpod

    eslpod New Member

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    I currently have aMember successfully installed and working on my site, and have been using it for the past year. I now want to add a higher level of membership. I know how create a new product, but I would like to be able to test it (including testing the payment system (PayPal), if possible) before going live with it.

    I read in the aMember manual that you can "disable" a product so that it doesn't show up. The manual states:
    The product will not appear for any users. It will still be available in the Admin Control Panel for manual signups.​

    I created a test product and checked "Disable," but I am not clear as to how I can now test it. I can add a user, but how do I sign up someone for a specific (test) product to test it? Also, I want to be able to test the PayPal system with this product.

    Perhaps this is something that I can only do by downloading another trial version, installing it on another server, and running the tests that way.

    Any ideas?
    Jeff
  2. alexander

    alexander Administrator Staff Member

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    Jeff,
    You can do this with Price Groups.
    Set scope for this product to "All" and assign negative price_group for this product. For example: -93746535
    This product will be available only if you will use special link:
    /amember/signup.php?price_group=-93746535

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