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 wacnstac

Can the recent subcribers be seen my non-subscribers as well? I'll try to get this installed tomorrow. Just saw it now.

Yup. Just use the notice for "non subscribers".

[wacnstac]

This is a fantastic hack. Does everything I could have ever wanted from it. Thank you!

[wacnstac]

What is the order of the names that are displayed in the latest subscribers part of this hack? My name always seems to be up first even though there are others who have subscribed after I did.

[Namaless]

Hook: usercp_complete
Code:

eval('$template_hook[usercp_main_pos1] .= "$submessage";');

[hr]

Hook: forumhome_complete
Code:

$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME'] = str_replace('<!-- main -->', '$submessage' . '<!-- main -->', $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME']);

Regards.

Regards.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wacnstac

What is the order of the names that are displayed in the latest subscribers part of this hack? My name always seems to be up first even though there are others who have subscribed after I did.

Whoops... it was ordering by expiration date. This has been changed to the id #. Please download the newest version if you use the recent subscriber feature.

[SVTCobraLTD]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Good question Jason. At this point the messages show up until they are no longer relevant (i.e. the next one takes over). I'll likely add something to let the user close them down soon.

Has this been changed yet?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SVTCobraLTD

Has this been changed yet?

It's not listed in the update log or features list... so no.

[imedic]

I have already installed the previous version and want to upgrade. Should I uninstall previous version and then install new one or just install?
If I uninstall it first would I lose the texts I have inputed ? Should I backup ?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by imedic

I have already installed the previous version and want to upgrade. Should I uninstall previous version and then install new one or just install?
If I uninstall it first would I lose the texts I have inputed ? Should I backup ?

To upgrade just upload the new product file and allow it to override what you have now. This way only new or updated information is applied and your old settings remain in place.

You should always backup addons before upgrading.

[vitrag24]

thanks.