Subscription Notifications -- Drive paid subscriptions & renewals
 

Paid Subscriptions are a means of driving revenue for thousands of forums but what do you do when a subscription is about to expire? On most forums, if the subscription does not recur automatically, users lose their status and only if they notice a change in benefits do they think to renew. By proactively informing users of their subscription expiration you can help increase paid subscription renewal rates and decrease support inquiries from subscribers.

Notifications Options & Customizations:

The Subscription Notifications System can appear on your Forum Home and/or User CP pages and can display the following messages:

Expired Alert
24 Hour Alert
48 Hour Alert
7 Day Alert
1 Month Alert
Long Term Membership
No Membership

All of these messages can be configured using phrases and customized with HTML code to meet your forum's needs.

Each message is enabled/ disabled through your vB control panel with a link provided to modify the message contents using the phrase system.

Modifications/ Instructions:
Template edits: 1-2
Plugins: 1 (adds 1 template and several phrases & settings)
SQL Queries Added: 1-2 (optional)

This addon should take under 5 minutes to implement and customize. Note: Minor template modifications are required for this addon to show up (see instructions file for more details)!

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NOTE: This mod is listed as beta until there are more confirmed installs.

Just what we are looking for,Tagged and will install today and comment back!
Top work

Thanks!

nice mod ...........

I really like this and tagged it. Won't do me much good yet as I still haven't gotten Zombaio integrated with vB4 yet. Looking for help with that. Once I get that done and have some paying members this is going to be the perfect fit.

Installed, added the variable to the templates, activated via settings ... no message is displaying.

Any tips on what to look for?

hmm, don't know sigh. Also, nothing is showing in my Navbar and I added "{vb:raw submessage}" to Line 1. Awaiting help as well. Otherwise, looks super, I love it.

ooh, one more thing, can I add a 2nd paypal address for an additional Paid subscription category? Slightly off topic I know...thanks

and another. Can not display on Default page, no matter where I put "$submessage" it shows up on the forumhome as text! Only on the default skin, other two EP skins are fine! thanks

The vaiable is {vb:raw submessage} and should be in your navbar template only.

AAAaahh.. I read into it wrong. I thought that it also notified of me when a new subscriber paid with the "General paid subscription" Notification....my BAD!!! I did go and read your earlier viersions of this hack, and I see you implemented "latest subscribers" to the forumhome. Can we get this for Vb4.?
Right now all is working perfectly. Thnx.

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Uh-oh!

This is addressed in beta version 2.

That's it!! Beta 2 is phenomonal! Perfect :) Nominated for MOTM!

Been waiting for this :)

Installed... :up:

Loved this mod as it really helped us under our v3 board...

However ... :confused:

I understand your install instructions saying "The variable is {vb:raw submessage} and should be in your navbar template only."

Question: where in the v4 navbar template should this be placed?

The AdminCP configuration screen for the mod says, as an example:

So, I assume that this is just left over content from the earlier v3 mod and since this is a beta, it should just be ignored until you get around to changing it?

Thanks for any feedback ... :)

Regards,
Badger

Anywhere you want to show it, at the end is most common.


Pretty much... Whoops! :eek:

Is it possible make PM notifications too?

Thanks Ted ... :)

Excellent mod and it's been valuable for us. We are a "not for profit" organization, so anything we can do to stimulate subscribers donating again is very helpful to reducing costs.

Appreciate your efforts ... :)

For your beta testing feedback, I can confirm that it works fine in vb4.03 and appears for us (modified phrasing) as in attached pic. Hope that helps ...

Regards,
Badger

BTW. love your other mods as well... :)

I assume it would be. This mod works on-load, what you're looking for would interface with the existing subscription notification system, which uses email.

Hi Ted,

Is there anyway of using the expiry date from your mod in a different part of the forum? I've made a block that displays if they have active membership, be excellent if it could show the expiry date, I can't seem to suss it out :)

Dave.

Sure but you would have to edit the plugin to run in more places... Basically take out the code that limits it to just a few pages.

Thanks for replying Ted :)

I had a quick go this morning, and adding in a new THIS_SPACE, and adding this to the code I'm using, but it still didn't return the date when trying to call the long sub phrase (just so I could use the date)

What else would I need to include in my block to make the correct date show up?

Thanks for any help btw, if I could work out how to make a product installer etc.. I'd release my module thing as an add-on for your excellent mod! :)

Tagged! maybe interesting for the future...;)

Must say, very nice!

The only thing I'd maybe suggest is for n00bs like me, maybe a bit more insigh as to where the {vb:raw submessage} should be placed in the navbar template. I figured it in the end, very handy mod!

Cheers,
Martyn

For a block you should just take the relevant code and create a php block. The alternative is to edit the mod to work as a block rather than a variable.

The messages stopped displaying on my forums after I upgraded to vb4.
the {vb:raw submessage} is still in my navbar template, and I checked my admin settings for this mod and they are all still enabled, but nothing shows up.

Ok, I figured it out. I was a member of a 2nd which was hiding these messages.. doh

Ted ... :)

Is there any way of centering the phrase outputted?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

Can this be set to only check users that did NOT pay via PayPal (or other automatic subscription payment system)?

It would take some quick modification to do this to check the payment method.

You can edit the message template to do this.

hi ted,

i've installed your mod, but one problem that i have..

at my forum i don't use paypall, but we are using transfer via bank account..

is your mod support this?

thx

The type of payment doesn't matter so long as charges are recurirng.

Hi Ted,

Great, great mod but to my dismay, since upgrading from 4.0.0 to 4.0.6, I just can't get it to appear on my forum

I've reinstalled by overwriting the product but can't seem to get it to appear.

Any suggestions?

Works fantastic in 4.08 thx Ted :up:

Anyway for the user to turn off the notification if they decide not to renew?

Hi, please can you tell me which template hooks this mod calls for, as the notifications are showing in the default style, but not in any other. :)