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.
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I know you may not be working on this 3.7 version any more, but in regards to showing or not showing the EXPIRED message, here is my thought....
Add an option for how many days after the last subscription date for the user has expired to show the EXPIRED message (if that message is turned on). Thus the logic for this EXPIRED message would be (With a setting of 5 in the # of days to show after subscription has expired)...
Show EXPIRED MESSAGE, YES or NO?
IF NO, end.
If YES, is the expired date older than 5 days ago?
If YES, END (Do not show message)
If NO, Show EXPIRED message.
You more or less do this kind of thing already seeing you show a given message based on the date of the subscription.
If you could add this...It would be GREAT. As right now I do not have it show the EXPIRED message as it would just stay on the persons screen all the time if they were ever a paid subscriber.
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02-22-2010, 11:35 AM
