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[eddieeddie]

I am going to require that someone pays to be listed.

Since I don't notice a built in payment method, I am going to allow payment through a third party such as worldpay or something like that.

They will pay for a month, so is there any built in way for an e-mail to be sent to them after 3 weeks telling them time to pay for another month? Also, I need an e-mail to be sent to me every 30 days of an ad, so it should have no problem sending it to me every 30 days in the case of someone being listed for more then that time.

Thank you.

[esm]

you could generate a list and manually email if not too many.

to do it automatically, you would have to use the server's cron feature..

or see http://www.nicecoder.com/community/s...=6151#post6151

[eddieeddie]

That looks interesting. Is it possible to make it work without hacking vBulletin? How much are you looking for it?

I am not completely against putting "e-mail xxx that 7 days remain" and "disable xxx is not paid for a new month" In a schedule program and checking it daily.

[esm]

actually, the vB part is just a simple add-in....well, now it is simple. It just took me days to "program" it...to get to "simple."

I can probably make it integrate with most any program that uses mysql and has the required columns ( username, email, account_status ) and features (login, etc). Thus, it can control access to something like INDEXU, vB, etc.

Cost is the cost of dream account software ($USD 150) plus whatever I charge. Still unsure about that. Will have to look at the "competition."

as for doing it yourself, that can worked very well for small numbers. I had to "build" my links site once a day - did it for 3 yrs....

[eddieeddie]

Do you happen to have a live demo of it?

Can you explain all of the features a bit more?

If it is just an add-in does that mean I don't have to edit any files? Does it work with vB3 or just vB2? What features will be lost if I choose not to use the vB add-in part?

At first, I am going to let anyone be listed for free, or else no one will look at it, and no one will pay to be listed. It will grow very quickly though because it will be semi-integrated with the site I already have.

I want to keep the login in my vB seperate from INDEXU because there are many reasons that people would want a different name. I would like the add-in to be integrated with INDEXU, but not necessarily vB because of that.

Thank you.

[eddieeddie]

Sorry, I just noticed that you said it used dream account software.

Can you explain how it integratres then?

[esm]

the simplist senario is : You want to charge someone for placing their listing on your INDEXU site. They create their account in the Dream Account software ( which creates the account in INDEXU but it is not activated in INDEXU until payment is received). When payment is received, the INDEXU account is activated and the user is allowed to create his listing. ( this is pretty much instantaneous). Dream Account monitors the account by running the server's cron feature nightly. At the end of the expire date for the "subscription" Dream Account attempts re-billing. if it suceeds in getting another payment, a new expire date is created. If no payment is rec'd. Dream Account attempts re-billing and if not received within a grace period, it suspends the account.

other senarios are available.

[eddieeddie]

That sounds good.

How does the user go about making it so that they don't get billed for the next term? Is it easy for them to do so? I don't want to charge people unless they want to be charged.

Also, people can register to have a free account to have favorites and other things like that, but not list if they would like, right?

One other thing, of someone who already registed for a free account (assuming the previous question was a yes) can they still create a listing without having to re-register?

Just so I am certain here, we are talking about the product that can be found here: http://www.dreamcost.com right? Let me know when you decide what to charge.

Thanks.

[esm]

I'll take a look at the cancellation thing...

yes, I'm pretty sure that you could set it up so that only users with a particular status code ( those who have paid ) could create a link...other users would still be free to access that part of the site you want to be available to the public.

And then they could switch to being a paid customer at a later date so they could add a link and not have to re-register

Yes, Dream Account from dreamcost.com

[eddieeddie]

Any updates with those questions I had?

[esm]

Originally posted by eddieeddie
Any updates with those questions I had?

everything is doable in your questions. For the free accounts you just set up a subscription price that has a zero amount and when the user account is setup that user gets a certain status code different that the paid status code.

the [COLOR-red]add link[/COLOR] routine is coded so that the "free" status code cannot create a link. Then, if they later on use the pay link, the add user routine looks to see if the user is there and if it is there with a "free" status code, the user's status is changed from the "free" status to the paid status. And only paid status codes will be allowed to create links.

I'm still working on the cancellation thing. I have set up a cancellation button that will take the user to paypal where he can cancel his subscription. While dream account will still try to bill the account, the re-bill will fail and the account will be suspended. I'm testing this and will let you know the results. but I expect them to work.

[eddieeddie]

Does it only work with paypal? Most all of the people will be in Canada and it is a pain for international users to register for paypal.

[dody]

Any updates with those questions I had?

I agree with esm, better use account management script that integrated with 3rd payment system.

[esm]

Supported Gateways
(for real-time processing)
Authorize.net
Paysystems IMA
Verisign Payflow Pro
Ibill
Planet Payment
ECX
RTWare
Echo
Netbilling
BluePay
eProcessing Network
SkipJack
Protx VSP Direct
PlugnPay
DPILink
eWay
SurePay
SecPay

Other Payment Processors
(Link-based processing)
2Checkout
PayPal
WorldPay
Nochex.com
NetPayments.com
LinkPoint Basic
E-Gold
E-Bullion
GoldMoney
Crowne Gold

see http://www.dreamcost.com/?page=dreamaccount_chart