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)!

[toxin]

Installed and working on 4.1.3 CMS.

Added this line to the very end of the navbar template:
{vb:raw submessage}

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by toxin

Installed and working on 4.1.3 CMS.

Added this line to the very end of the navbar template:
{vb:raw submessage}

Thanks

Which template is the vbCMS navbar?

Have you ever been able to get Ted's other mod "Limited Guest Viewing" working with vbCMS in a similar way?

Regards
Doug

[Rabby]

I added the "{vb:raw submessage}" line to the end of my navbar template and nothing is showing up at all. I'm using a custom style and not the default one and set the notify to less than 7 days and just tested it with an account who has 6 days subscription time left.

[monet1]

This is a great feature!

Is there a way to automatically downgrade a subscription to one where less privileges are allowed once a subscription expires UNLESS they renew?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by monet1

This is a great feature!

Is there a way to automatically downgrade a subscription to one where less privileges are allowed once a subscription expires UNLESS they renew?

You could certainly modify the subscription routine to do that... This mod however does no such thing.

[Dragonsys]

Originally Posted by monet1

This is a great feature!

Is there a way to automatically downgrade a subscription to one where less privileges are allowed once a subscription expires UNLESS they renew?

yeah I need this as well, but I have not found a plugin to do it, so I will have to see if I can write it myself.

[sportsoutlaw]

"Subscription Notification System" is not showing up in my options

vb 4.1.4 pl2

[GreyGhost]

Is there a way to include the username in the message (i.e. Welcome Freddy, your paid subscription expires in less than two days! Click Here to renew it)?

8-)

[GreyGhost]

I think I found an issue / bug.

If a user has more than 1 subscription...

i.e. a 1 year subscription for say a General Membership, not due to expire til say June 2012...

...and also has a monthly subscription for say a Bonus Level due to expire within a day or 2.

then while ever the 1 year subscription isn't due to expire it doesn't display the monthly subscription expiry notice.

8-)

[Ted S]

That's how it's designed to work... It checks the furthermost expiring membership to determine if the user is about to expire or not. Sites using multiple levels would have to determine their own priority system; after all you don't want to tell someone who had signed up for a month to month that their new lifetime membership is going to end.