• Hi,
    first of all thanks for your amazing plugin.

    I’m building a website where users can read technical articles paying a subscription.
    Articles are organized in categories and are associated to custom fields.

    In particular, every article is identified by:

    1. COUNTRY (a WordPress category, multiple choice possible).
    For example: USA, China, Japan
    Different subscription fees will be calculated according to the number of countries selected: less than 10 countries, between 10 and 20 countries, more than 20 countries.

    2. TOPIC (a custom taxonomy, multiple choice possible).
    For example: Books, Depliants
    Different subscription fees will be calculated according to the number of topics selected: less than 3 topics, between 3 and 10 topics, more than 10 topics.

    3. FIELDS (a custom taxonomy, multiple choice possible).
    For example: packaging
    Different subscription fees will be calculated according to the number of fields selected: less than 3 fields, between 3 and 10 fields, more than 10 fields.

    The TOTAL price of the subscription will be determined by the number of countries, topics and fields selected AND by the size of the company that buys the subscription (4 ranges: 1-10, 11-50, 51-99 and 100 employees).

    Let’s make an example. I’m a company with 20 employees (cost: 100$) and I want to read articles:

    • about 5 countries (USA, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and Canada) —> 250$;
    • about 2 topics (Books and Depliants) —> 150$;
    • about 1 field (packaging) —>100$

    My total subscription is 600$ per year and I will be able to see on the website:

    • articles in WordPress categories USA, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and Canada.
    • Within this categories, articles identified by custom fields “Books”, “Depliants” and “Packaging”

    Is there a way to build this on S2Member?
    What I’m interested in is mainly the ability of defining correctly what contents the user can see.
    I don’t necessarily need the subscription amount to be calculated automatically – I may also insert it manually in the backoffice if it’s possible.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/

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  • This sounds like you need to use forms, which are part of the Pro version. So you need to look at s2member’s own website at s2member.com.

    Thread Starter eleonoraz

    (@eleonoraz)

    Hi KTS915,
    thanks for your response.

    I appreciate your suggestion and I must confess it’s still a bit too vague for me: can you be a little more specific about where to look? Why should I use forms?
    How can they help me achieving the structure above?

    I’ve read that I can customize the subscription form (for example to include the company size), but what about the other parameters?

    Thanks!

    Well, I suppose you really have two options. One would be to use forms, which should allow the subscribers to pick country, topic, and fields (perhaps by a drop-down box in each case). See http://www.s2member.com/kb/pro-forms/

    This will probably need some scripting to get the price to generate correctly before purchase, which is why I suggested you go to the Pro forum for some help. (When there, see Help/Docs – Contact a Human). But that does mean you’ll need the Pro package.

    The alternative is that you essentially pre-package all the possible combinations, and then offer them for a price that covers the whole bundle. But that doesn’t sound like it’s the model you had in mind, and it might require you to come up with a confusing number of alternative packages.

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