As a customer I recomend you to buy the full version :)

1 User meant me allowing someone (1 named user) to dispense invite links & have users who register with them automatically joined to a secondary user group.

Yes, there is a special page that is used to send out invites - these invites are e-mails that contain a special link that, when used, make the new registrant a referee of the inviter and places him or her in an optional usergroup that you define if you want to via usergroup options.

Got it; sounds like a nice buy; I'll give it a try.
Before buying, do you have a document you can give me outlining the differences in the free Invites you made vs. the Commercial (only if you happen to have one)?

Just curious as to what to expect.

Does it work with 3.6.x?

The following features exist only in the commercial edition:

• Better Invite History (invites can be purged / cancelled, holds more information). Has fancy enchancements such as status highlights, etc.
• Daily invite reminders and expiration notifications, can be turned off if desired
• Ability to define how often reminders can be sent.
• Ability to reject received invitations.
• Ability to permanently opt out of receiving future invitations, with automatic marking of invite as rejected and with an admincp database management interface.
• Automatic prevention of invites from being sent out to already registered e-mails.
• Automatic prevention of invites from being sent out to the same e-mail multiple times.
• Ability to define users as "First Friends". Such users become mutual buddies with all new registrants, whether invited or not.
• As an alternative to automatic allocation (which can be turned off), there is an "Allocate Invites" tool, which gives you an ability to give out X invites to members that match a certain criteria.
• Image verification to prevent multiple submissions.
• MSN Contact Grabber included.
• A Lot More Configuration Options
• Usergroup placement feature is much more developed
• Invitation hash is stored in a cookie and is not lost between pages.
• If an invited person signs up without specifying invite code, the invite for that e-mail gets marked as accepted.
• More informative e-mails.

That's just some of the feature differences. If you wish, please - feel free to register at visionscripts.com and try out the online demo of the front-end.

The version available here does not - because of the cron issues (although it will soon be updated). The commercial edition, however, works with both 3.5 and 3.6.

Sounds nice; two more quick questions:

1) Is there a way to 'mass-refill' all member's invitations by a set number? Or, possibly give 20% more invites across the board based on registration volume?
I obviously wouldn't want to handpick & manually adjust for random members by hand.

2) Is it easy to 'upgrade' from your free Invites mod to the commercial one? Should I uninstall this one first? Will the db changes have issues when installing the commercial version b/c of changes the free one may have already made?

Yes, there is a special allocation tool for that, and it's interface is very similar to that on the "find user" screen. E.g. you can filter users by anything you want.

You'll need to undo and then redo template modifications, but aside from that it's just a re-upload of files and the product xml, and then a revert of any modified templates. :)

Looking forward to being able to use this again :)

I forgot to ask & forgive me if I 'overlooked' this in your documentation:

How are your customers notified of product updates? Do I need to subscribe somewhere? Is the download process of updates simple? From the customer area?

I want to make sure I'm notified once the Allocation feature is fixed.