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]

Reserved for future use. Please submit your real life examples for inclusion here!

[TOGUIMASTER]

Perfect! Installed!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TOGUIMASTER

Perfect! Installed!

Geeze! That was fast... Let me know how it's working...

[tspore]

Very nice work Ted,
I love it, 1 note - the link back to this mod in the install.html doesn't seem to work. For me this mod is invaluable.
I hope many kick in a few bucks to support more of these mods.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by tspore

link back to this mod in the install.html doesn't seem to work. For me this mod is invaluable.

Thanks. This has been fixed and an update posted. A reinstall/ upgrade is not necessary.

[billt928]

how can this be added to the new post page?

[Endurer]

Excellent, definitely installed.

[amc]

Does the notification include the "Name of the Subscription" also?

For example:

Your Paid Subscription to "Name of the Subscription" expires in less than two days.

This woud be helpful when a foum has different types of subscription.

Thank You.

[Mum]

I want to use this but my user cp doesn't have $header in it, can you tell me where to enter $submessage please?