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 regitbull

uuhm i cant get this mod to work on 3.6.8
I installed it and put that $submessage under $header but it just show a blank box on the forum home.

And my $submessage template was called sub_expirations and not submessage.
So i think there is a problem with it to not work on 3.6.8

The template name is not related to the variable. Have you enabled any of the messages to show up? Are the phrases in your phrase manager?

[regitbull]

yes i turnt the guest message and the all time expire messsage on but they are not showing up.

Like i said only a blank box.

And yes the phrases are in phrase manager.

[SVTCobraLTD]

Originally Posted by afullcup

Yeah, I got one of those today too:

Your Supporting Membership expires on Tue, Oct 41 2008.

Is this problem resolved? I would like to install this great addition.

[regitbull]

ok strange.
i installed the mod on my live board to test it there and now its works.
Its strange that it didint work on my test board.

Anyway the box and the message shows up now last problem/but is the problem every1 has.
That the expire date is wrong.

[Mum]

Originally Posted by SVTCobraLTD

Is this problem resolved? I would like to install this great addition.

No it's not.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Mum

No it's not.

Can you (or anyone else with this error) give the attached file a whirl? I've made an update but don't have time to test right now...

[regitbull]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Can you (or anyone else with this error) give the attached file a whirl? I've made an update but don't have time to test right now...

yes that fixt the problem.
Its working great now.

I clicked installed

And about any new updates you want to make you can maby use this mod:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=124740

Its almost the same mod as you made only a few more things like a subsciption title phrase and a .. days left till your subscription expires phrase.

I would like to see this to in your mod if you have time to do that.

Anyway good job and i clicked installed


Edit: ok i just discover that the already reported bug about the first subscription showing isint fix in the last xml you send.
So there is 1 last bug to fix

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by regitbull

Edit: ok i just discover that the already reported bug about the first subscription showing isint fix in the last xml you send.
So there is 1 last bug to fix

Can you explain exactly what is happening with your users for this? Ive had a few different reports and want to narrow this down more...

[regitbull]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Can you explain exactly what is happening with your users for this? Ive had a few different reports and want to narrow this down more...

I use the paid subscription systeem to sell vip on my site.

Ok a user bought 1 month vip first and after that expire he bought 6 months vip.
The box is showing the expire date of the fist subscription ( the 1 month vip )

So lets say the 1 month vip expire on 22-04-2008 and 1 day later he bought 6 months vip.
The message is now saying thanks for buying vip your vip membership expired on 22-04-2008 but it must be the expire date if the 6 months vip.

Thats the only last bug i have on the moment.

[jaymzz]

Thanks for add on. Clicked installed