1. Overview

This module aims at allowing users to subscribe to a site or part of a site. A subscription can have different types (bronze, silver, gold, etc) and also different statuses (pending, active, grace period, expired, cancelled).

Each subscription type can define an optional length in days for subscriptions and also a grace period, in which subscriptions expire but are left active for a few more days, giving the user a longer time frame to renew his subscription.

This module is not for subscribing changes to content or taxonomies, check out Subscriptions or Notifications for that.

Subs implements a more generic type of subscription to an entire site or section, for example:

• 2 week subscription to a video-tutorial website
• 3 month gold subscription to a cloud service
• 1 year gold subscription to a premium theme club

Subscription Statuses

Pending (optional)

Subscriptions require some further action to become active. For example: confirm email or receive payment (possible with Subs Payment submodule).

Active

Default status.

Grace-period (optional)

Subscription has reached its end but can be extended for a certain amount of days to give the subscriber an extra chance to renew

Expired

Subscription has reached its end and either there are no grace-periods allowed, or it's also reached the end of its grace period. It is no longer active.

Cancelled

A subscription has been cancelled by the user or an administrator. For all practical purposes this behaves the same as expired.