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.

[Goomzee]

i installed this but i don't know it's works or not

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Goomzee

i installed this but i don't know it's works or not

Well if it shows up to the groups you've set it for it works, if it doesn't show up then the install isn't working right. Not sure why you wouldn't know... If it's there it's there...

[dxlwebs]

OMG you will not believe how much of a div i am!

LOL i used this on my 3.6 version but then i updated to 3.7 and then a few later up to 3.8 for the fact of it being out! so i looked for this mod and found it here installed it and made the edits and everything was correct BUT nothing was showing and it drove me nuts for 1 whole hour!
:erm: then i realised i disabled it for the updates so i enabled it now and its working great like before thanks a lot great mod!

[Ted S]

Better that then a problem with the mod but still no fun!

[WavMixer]

This looks to be a great mod. It appears as though this only posts a notice to the subscriber on the message board. Can this also send email to the subscriber?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by WavMixer

This looks to be a great mod. It appears as though this only posts a notice to the subscriber on the message board. Can this also send email to the subscriber?

Nope . Although that's a good idea

[WavMixer]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Nope . Although that's a good idea

Perhaps a good enough idea to incorporate in a future release?

[Ted S]

Perhaps. I know vBulletin does some email notifications already so I'll need to see what can be done without this mod and be sure I'm not stepping on existing systems or mods.

[WavMixer]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Perhaps. I know vBulletin does some email notifications already so I'll need to see what can be done without this mod and be sure I'm not stepping on existing systems or mods.

Actually, I have been looking thru all of the mods for something to make multiple emails and specifed times and your mod is the closest thing so far. I wish there was already something that could do this.

[Budweiser]

Step 3) Template Modification

From your Admin Control Panel go to Styles & Templates --> Style Manager and select Edit Templates from the drop down list. Double click the USER CP and/ or FORUMHOME templates option and then double click the template name again to edit it.

Forum Homepage: Find $header in the template FORUM HOME...

User CP Page: Go to the top of the template USER CP...

Add the code: $submessage. Save the template and repeat the process for each top level style you have.

I'm not following your template modification instructions...
You say to Find $header in the template FORUM HOME... but then what??

Then go to the top of the template USER CP... Add the code: $submessage... I got that but why find $header in the template FORUM HOME if there is nothing to edit??
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