is there an easy way to set up a cancel subscription option such as you have for premium wpmudev?
I see a button link in my profile at wpmudev that I can click if I wanted to cancel my subscription.
That might be a nice feature to use with the pay to blog plugin. I have customers sometimes ask me how to cancel their subsriptions, some of them are not sure how to do this in paypal.
is there an easy way to set up a cancel subscription option such as you have for premium wpmudev?
I see a button link in my profile at wpmudev that I can click if I wanted to cancel my subscription.
That might be a nice feature to use with the pay to blog plugin. I have customers sometimes ask me how to cancel their subsriptions, some of them are not sure how to do this in paypal.
The Supporter plugin was built as a replacement for Pay to Blog. It does all that Pay to Blog and much more.
I don't think this is a correct statement.
I have not installed the Supporter plugin, because I don't think it replaces Pay-To-Blog functionality. From what I can tell, Supporter does not charge for blogs, but does charge for themes and plugins. Pay-To-Blog does quite the opposite, charges for the ability to create blogs(seemingly w/o limit), but allows members to pick from the "free" themes and pluggins you provide. I'm not sure what Supporter does with someone creating multiple blogs that wants to use the same Premium theme & plugins on each. Maybe it charges multiple times.
Supporter's free blogging & membership "could" open the gates for Spammers creating accounts and blogs at will. It will require much more monitoring of spamming members and content. Whereas Pay-To-Blog "could" be used to require spammers to pay upfront.
Supporter would allow you to build membership at the cost of monitoring overhead, where as Pay-To-Blog permits a demo/trial period after which the spammers need to pay, then clean up those not willing to pay. Or one can use Pay-to-blog to somewhat inhibit new membership by charging up front.
I choose Pay to Blog cause spammers like to waste our time and dilute site content.
Supporter does charge for the ability to create an account and have a blog. Supporter then allows you to specify which themes and plugins are available to those blogs.
Supporter does not allow anyone to create multiple blogs. They can only sign-up for one blog and then only the super admin has the ability to assign more blogs to their account.
You could combine the Supporter plugin with Membership to offer a trial period, with different levels of access to a fully paying member.
I hope that addresses the concerns you have about Supporter.
Supporter's free blogging & membership "could" open the gates for Spammers creating accounts and blogs at will. It will require much more monitoring of spamming members and content. Whereas Pay-To-Blog "could" be used to require spammers to pay upfront.
No I have not tried it because I did not see anything in the description that said it charged for blogs or accounts. Maybe I should go back and read it more closely.
Based on what PhilipJohn says, it seems like a ggo combin ation with the Members plugin.
Responses (10)
Sales & Support Lead — 1st December 2010 #
Hiya Tony V,
I'm not sure if there ever was a 'cancel' feature built into this one. It hasn't had a lot of attention since Supporter was released over a year ago.
You can always point them to the paypal instructions for canceling a subscription:
https://www.paypal.com/helpcenter/main.jsp;jsessionid=GJ52MsFS1Hj1HBqlyGbckZLvfnCQkQyFQ0WnLnvWpcnL6Thqty4p!864223229?locale=en_US&_dyncharset=UTF-8&countrycode=US&cmd=_help&serverInstance=9006&t=solutionTab&ft=searchTab&ps=solutionPanels&solutionId=27715&isSrch=Yes
Or the Supporter plugin has the options built in for ya ;D
Thanks!
Member — 1st December 2010 #
can the supporter do all that pay to blog does? I would have to have the pay to blog options at minimum.
Thanks.
Tony V
Sales & Support Lead — 3rd December 2010 #
Hiya Tony,
The Supporter plugin was built as a replacement for Pay to Blog. It does all that Pay to Blog and much more.
Thanks!
Lead Developer — 3rd December 2010 #
We can't add a button like here as we use a different paypal api, but this may help:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_subscribe_buttons#id08ADFK0C0N9
Basically it's just a customized link with your paypal email in it.
Member — 24th January 2011 #
I like to have this feature too
Member — 26th January 2011 #
Hi,
Pay to Blog vs Supporter
I don't think this is a correct statement.
I have not installed the Supporter plugin, because I don't think it replaces Pay-To-Blog functionality. From what I can tell, Supporter does not charge for blogs, but does charge for themes and plugins. Pay-To-Blog does quite the opposite, charges for the ability to create blogs(seemingly w/o limit), but allows members to pick from the "free" themes and pluggins you provide. I'm not sure what Supporter does with someone creating multiple blogs that wants to use the same Premium theme & plugins on each. Maybe it charges multiple times.
Supporter's free blogging & membership "could" open the gates for Spammers creating accounts and blogs at will. It will require much more monitoring of spamming members and content. Whereas Pay-To-Blog "could" be used to require spammers to pay upfront.
Supporter would allow you to build membership at the cost of monitoring overhead, where as Pay-To-Blog permits a demo/trial period after which the spammers need to pay, then clean up those not willing to pay. Or one can use Pay-to-blog to somewhat inhibit new membership by charging up front.
I choose Pay to Blog cause spammers like to waste our time and dilute site content.
Is this a fair summary? What am I missing here?
Kind Regards,
Larry
Sales & Support Pro — 26th January 2011 #
Hi Larry,
Supporter does charge for the ability to create an account and have a blog. Supporter then allows you to specify which themes and plugins are available to those blogs.
Supporter does not allow anyone to create multiple blogs. They can only sign-up for one blog and then only the super admin has the ability to assign more blogs to their account.
You could combine the Supporter plugin with Membership to offer a trial period, with different levels of access to a fully paying member.
I hope that addresses the concerns you have about Supporter.
Phil
Lead Developer — 26th January 2011 #
Have you tried the supporter-write.php module?
Member — 27th January 2011 #
Hi,
No I have not tried it because I did not see anything in the description that said it charged for blogs or accounts. Maybe I should go back and read it more closely.
Based on what PhilipJohn says, it seems like a ggo combin ation with the Members plugin.
Larry
Member — 1st February 2011 #
Hi,
I think I will wait for V3 of supporter to fully replace Pay to Blog.
Regards,
Larry
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