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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Budweiser

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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[qoute]Add the code: $submessage. Save the template and repeat the process for each top level style you have.[/quote]

[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.

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

I understand what you are saying about repeating the process for each top level style.
When I read the instructions this is what read...

There are two templates that need to be edited for each style.
1: Forum Home Templates>> FORUMHOME
2: User Control Panel Templates>> USERCP

The way I am reading the instructions, it says to go to the FORUMHOME template and find "$header". Am I supposed to add "$submessage" above the "$header" line?

Then the istructions say to go to the USERCP template and add "$submessage" at the top.

Am I reading the instructions incorrectly??
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[Ted S]

Yes you are.

[Budweiser]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Yes you are.

LOL. Yes. I dont know why I read that thing over and over and it wouldn't sink in. I took a couple of days off and came back to it. I should of had a V8!

Anyway. another question which I hope is not too dumb.

I am using this on the USER CP page only and wanted to change the background color for all of the messages that appear there. I added ".alt3 {background:#F8F5A4;color:#222222;}" to my Additional CSS Definitions to change the background color of my notices and forum description area.
I went to $vbphrase[sub_phrase_none] and tried to add <body bgcolor="#F8F5A4"> but it didnt do anything. I also tried <td class="alt3"> It changed some of the background color but messed up the formatting.

I looked but dont know what other template to edit. Is there somewhere I can add <td class="alt3"> to change the background for all of the enabled notifications?

[Ted S]

<body> is the tag used for your entire page.

<td> creates a new table cell.

You're question can be best addressed understanding just a bit of HTML.... www.w3schools.com can help

[PVO_Dave]

Dont suppose you are planning to release this for v4 at all? Would be brilliant if you could use it in one of the forum blocks

[Ted S]

vb4 support will be added in the next couple of weeks.

[vitrag24]

need this for vb 4.0
plZ

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vitrag24

need this for vb 4.0
plZ

This modification will be updated down the road... 4.0 is newly released and each mod takes time to update.

[wacnstac]

Yeap, I'm going to need it too.