Miscellaneous Hacks - Subscription Notifications -- Drive paid subscriptions & renewals

vB 4 beta version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=241224

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

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)!

Compatibility with 3.6.x versions:

This addon will work with 3.6.x but the admin cp phrase links will appear broken. Users of 3.6.x versions will need to manually search for the phrases to customize.

Updates:
- 12/24/2008 - Minor bug fix to support table prefixes
- 08/26/2008 - Minor bug fix to change expired subscription message.
- 06/12/2008 - Update recent subscriber feature
- 06/06/2008 - Update to fix urls to relative path
- 06/05/2008 - Update to resolve bug with date format and multiple subscriptions

Credit goes to tspore for providing the original idea for this addon.

[Mum]

Yes Ted S - i'd use that feature

[Ted S]

For those of you trying to show recent susbcribers on the homepage, take a look at this addon https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99049 which should work for 3.7.

[kau]

If I disable the option to not show that their subscription has expired then it leaves;

"Your Subscription is about to expire in less than 1 day"

If I keep it enabled it tells them their subscription has expired.

Once they expire I don't want to show them anything.

Is there a way to not show anything after they actually expire?

[Ted S]

Exclude that message, it should be an option?

[winpro19]

Amazing plugin, keep up the good work!

[winpro19]

Update: Just installed and tested. It is an amazing plugin indeed, been in look for something like this from long time. Don't know why, but not a lot of plugins for Paid Subscriptions out there =S

Anyway, this is great stuff. Works like a charm, and very professional looking / easy to manage.

Great stuff Ted!

Nominated for NOTM

[kau]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Exclude that message, it should be an option?

There is an option to not show the expired message but if I select no to that then it shows the Your Subscription is going to expire in less than a day but they are already expired.

[Ted S]

Got it. I'm a bit slammed this week but will release an upgrade that resolves this Thursday or Friday Kau.

[jambo_1969]

Installed.

Awesome mod !

[winpro19]

One question, it does not seem to be picking up on the latest 5 subscribers? This could be a conflict with one of the other mods I have installed, but I doubt it.

It's showing fairly recent subscribers, but I got few more after that and it's not updating. It is still showing the same 5 subscribers that it was when I first installed it. Anything I have to do to update it?

Thanks!