Miscellaneous Hacks - 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)!

[mikem164]

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

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mikem164

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.

[mikem164]

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.

[WEBDosser]

Reserved

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by WEBDosser

Reserved

Uh-oh!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mikem164

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.

This is addressed in beta version 2.

[mikem164]

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

[Alex@Mk3OC]

Been waiting for this

[BadgerDog]

Installed... :up:

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

However ...

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:

This option allows you to enable or disable the Paid Subscription Expiration Notifications on the Forum homepage. Note: Be sure to add the variable $submessage to your FORUMHOME template if you use this option.

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

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

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

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

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

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?

Pretty much... Whoops!