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.

[SVTCobraLTD]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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

Cant wait for an update for this. I havent installed it yet due to the message showing up as indicated before. Hopefully this is resolved with the update. Thanks for all your work.

[Ted S]

Kau & SVTCobraLTD...

I've made an update to address this issue but won't have time to test it until tomorrow. If you would like to run the new version here it is... It's a minor tweak so I don't expect any bad reactions, just the possibility that it doesn't solve the issue. Let me know if you get a chance to run this and what the results are.

Thanks!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by 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!

Are you new subscribers people who renewed or brand new to the program?

[winpro19]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Are you new subscribers people who renewed or brand new to the program?

Have had both brand new and a few that renewed their subscription (not automatic renewal, manually). It seems to be showing the same 5 (or 10) people ..hasn't changed even once.

Could this be a date issue ? I have the "Latest Paid subscribers" hack installed, and that works fine.

Thanks

[BigSoccer Tech.]

Were getting a bug where folks who once were preemies but didn't renew are getting a message saying "you have one more day til expriation"

how to fix??

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by BigSoccer Tech.

Were getting a bug where folks who once were preemies but didn't renew are getting a message saying "you have one more day til expriation"

how to fix??

Download the beta update a few posts back...

[SVTCobraLTD]

Am I missing something? I added the new updated product and also added $submessage to FORUMHOME but nothing. Below shows the code and where I entered it.

	$headinclude
	<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$submessage
<br />
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="180px">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" align="center">
 <tr>

[Ted S]

Have you turned on any notices to show up?

[SVTCobraLTD]

Yes, 24hr, 48hr, 7 day, no subcription, forumhome, usercp

But it does not show up anywhere. I am using 3.6.10pl3

[Ted S]

Do you have a test account I can login with that has a subscription setup?