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)!

[junaid]

Is it possible make PM notifications too?

[BadgerDog]

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...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by junaid

Is it possible make PM notifications too?

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.

[PVO_Dave]

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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by PVO_Dave

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.

[PVO_Dave]

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!

[patrick91]

Tagged! maybe interesting for the future...

[Martyn1983]

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

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by PVO_Dave

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!

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.

[Dragonsys]

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