By nikolaj on

Hi all,

This is my first post here and second day playing with drupal.

I want to make membership site where members pay X for 1 month or Y for 12 months.
Want some pages and some forums to be only for members.

I have a few questions:
- if user pay for one month would he automatically be changed to nonpaid user after one month ?
- my idea is to make promotion and give in first week free 6 months membership - how to do that?
- would it automatically change user level to nonpaid user after that 6 months?

How to organize user levels?
- anonymous
- registered (still didn't pay)
- member (user who paid membership)

Is it ok?
Or I need to kind of member users - one for 1 month membership and another for 12 months ?

....or maybe is there some tutorial about making membership site with Drupal?

Thanks,
Nikola

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Comments

vm’s picture

vm commented

you will have to investigate in depth the ecommerce.module

.carey’s picture

.carey commented

...you may want to look into the lm_paypal module which has a subscription module included for paid memberships.

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Lowell commented

the e-commerce modules handles exactly these scenarios, yet I haven't tested the expiry features yet, but if they work as good as the rest of the e-commerce modules, I think you should be all set.

nikolaj’s picture

nikolaj commented

So, lm_paypal or e-commerce ?

Which one have better support?
It seems that lm_paypal is much easier to setup.

vm’s picture

vm commented

They both have great support. ecom has a team of developers while lm_paypal is headed by one or two.

lmpaypal has a simplier methodology to cover simple type tasks. while ecom allows for expansion beyond memberships. Thus, it will depend solely on how you see your site growing.

Best advice is to install two test environments on yoru local machine and test both modules.

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nikolaj commented

And what do you think about civicrm and CiviMember module?
Can I make this with it?

vm’s picture

vm commented

i've never implemented civiCRM, again, only you will know what best for you. Thus in the case of civiCRM, my best advice is to also install that in a test environment and give it a whirl before you deploy yourself into a corner that you may have to work harder to get out of versus deploying the piece of software best suited to what you envision your idea becoming.