So as indicated above - I have created a new plugin for a FallBack Plan. For those who have come from AEC the concept is probably fairly familiar but for those who haven't let me explain. Lets assume you have a site that has Gold and Bronze Membership. Bronze is free of charge, Gold is Paid for. When a Gold member lapses rather expiring them completely you want them to drop to the Free Bronze Package. This plugin does that. Of course any time they choose they can renew their Gold again. Another use case is when their membership lapses you want to reduce their privileges for a period before completely restricting their access/. You can already send up to 3 reminders before their membership expires but this way you can send another set of reminders AFTER their membership expires. In theory you can chain together as many fall backs as you want sending even more reminders (just watched the spam police will catch up with you eventually!)
OK thats the principles of what it does.
Here's its limitations:
Its my code - not Tuan's OK actually its mostly copied from Tuan's code - but my point is its not a OS Solution plugin at the moment. If you use it don't expect Tuan to fix things when its broken. Also if you sue it its GPL and you aren't payign em for it or support so don't expect me to fix things when its broken! But do please tell me of any issues and I will try and take a look at the code! But not at Tuan's pace of development. If Tuan wants to add it to core he's welcome. If not I will probably pop it on the Joomla Extension Directory.
Only applied Free Plans It can't move someone to a paid plan. If your Gold drops to Silver and Silver is paid, you need to Copy Silver to a Silver Fall Back make it free and hide the plan from the public by putting it as only available to a user group that the publiuc can never see like SuperAdmin or creating a group.
Untested with things like Community Builder - it may work but I don't use them so not tested. I have tested it with MembPro, AcyMailing, Joomla User Profiles.
My test setup is as follows:
Paid Plan - with a defined period. Plan adds member to a Joomla Group called Member, adds to AcyMailing "Member" List and captures additional data. It works within the limitations of the Group Memberships to fall back group members too (even if the plan doesnt support groups!)' As with all group memberships upgrading / renewing from within the group membership is not possible Tuan litte request - could it explain that on the Upgrade / Renew screens for the ¨child¨ when child is logged in and clicks Renew could it say ¨As you are not the main account holder you can not renew your membership¨ rather than just no options are available. I want when a Group renews it renews the children too - can feel another plugin coming along!
When expired if not renewed - they drop to a plan called "Lapsed Membership" (You select that plan on a new tab that appears once the plugin is installed and published. Lapsed Membership lasts 2 months and is free, its only available for SuperUsers to select normally, and on use drops to a AcyMailing List called Lapsed Membership (I might send some but not all newsletters to both lists and then some newsletters to Members Only and some "Come Back Please" newsletters to Lapsed Members - perhaps I wills end a voucher code. Lapsed Members drop to Registered User Group
When that expires they are properly expired (but could drop to another plan if we wanted) and we remove them from AcyMailing and remove all but Public Joomla Access Group.
