Allowing different BuddyPress profiles to sign up using S2 Member.

I don’t know about Gravity Forms, but this has certainly been done with Formidable Forms (though I must admit that I haven’t done it myself).

Relevant information is here.

In that case, how would they be getting to PayPal?

If you have them register as a subscriber first via Formidable, you could then use an s2Member Billing Modification form to enable them to upgrade to level 1. Since the user would already be logged in when doing that, s2Member would automatically populate the form with their data, and there should be no problem.

As I say, I haven’t tried it personally, but I seems as though it should work.

Well, you could create a similar setup to do what you want.

First, create a registration form, with conditional logic, to allow users to sign up according to their profession. That gets all the options sorted out, and gets them access to your site at subscriber/level 0.

Then, on the user welcome page, you could place your button (inside a shortcode so it’s visible only to those not yet at level 1) to enable users to upgrade to level 1 membership.

It’s still a two-stage setup like you have currently. It’s just the two stages are a little different. I’m sure you could do this with Gravity Forms too, if you happen to prefer that plugin.

I agree. I think the only way you are going to find out if that works is simply by trying it out.

You could also try contacting Formidable Forms. I have heard that they have excellent customer support.

Im having a similar issue. Im running a buddypress site with 3 levels (free – consumer, free – professional and paid – professional). I need the professionals and consumers to be able to search for each other. Im not using the S2member registration form. I am using the buddypress registration form with ‘Conditional Profile Fields for Buddypress‘. BTW this plugin works best of those ive tried to incorporate conditional fields into registration. The profile search form seems to work as well.

I want to give my ‘Paid – professional’ users the ability to search consumers, as well as create groups, remove users posts, write blogs etc. These abilities will not be available to ‘free – professional’ users. I also need the ‘free – consumer’ members to be able to use their own search form to find professionals, without the ability to create groups, remove user posts, write blogs etc. I know there is a solution out there for me, but i havent found it yet.

No I hadnt seen that, but its interesting. Im currently using BP Profile Search which seems to do what I need it to do (though I don’t have any users yet).

Im mainly looking for S2 member to require a ‘paid – professional’ level (level 2) in order to access the ‘professional searching consumers’ form. The member search forms themselves are already in place.