mojoPortal Tips: Using Membership Pro with Premium Content

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 January 2013 12:25 Written by Carole Bennett Saturday, 5 January 2013 12:00

One of my new mojoPortal clients plans to add premium content (videos, e-books) to her website as her business development practice grows and expands. That’s actually a very easy requirement to fulfill with mojoPortal and the Site Membership Pro plugin; let’s step through how I’ll set that up for her mojoPortal-driven site.

First of all, we’ll set up the client’s mojoPortal-driven site, and plan out what kind of exclusive content she wants to be able to offer her users. By creating free “premium” content, she can capture contact information from interested prospects, and use the Newsletter feature in mojoPortal to promote the monetized content afterwards.

How to Control the Dolphin 7.1 Membership Levels

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 06:16 Written by Mscott Sunday, 4 November 2012 12:00

Hello and welcome! In today’s blog I’ll show you how to modify the default Dolphin 7.1 membership levels or create custom membership levels for your Dolphin 7.1 website. Dolphin comes with three default membership levels, they are:

Non-member – This level is self explanatory. It is anyone who hasn’t joined the site.

Standard – This is the basic level for anyone who signs up.

Promotion – This is a special membership you can use if you plan on adding paid membership types. If you enable it when a new member joins they are added to this type by default and allowed to explore the site for 7 days. At the end of the 7 days they are automatically changed to a standard member.

Today we’re going to create a new membership type called “Super Member”. We could say it’s for VIP members or paying members. First let’s log in to our Dolphin admin and go to “Membership Levels” under the “settings” heading on the left sidebar.

How to Add Icons for User Groups in phpFox

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:04 Written by Stephanie Brown Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:00

This article will focus on how to add user group icons specific to each of your user groups.

A great way to acknowledge members in different user groups, is to give each user group a unique icon.  This icon will show up on the info tab of your user’s profile pages.

The first thing you want to do is find or make icons for each of your user groups.   After you have the icons ready, log into your phpFox AdminCP.  Select Users > Manage User Groups.

How to Create Membership Subscriptions in phpFox

Last Updated on Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:34 Written by Stephanie Brown Monday, 2 July 2012 12:00

This article will focus on how and why you may want to create membership subscriptions for your website.

Creating a membership subscription will allow you to generate income by allowing members to have access to pay to use features of your website.  You may want to allow your basic members the ability to upload photos and add blogs, but you may want to allow a paid member to create pages, upload videos, or even to post items for sale in the marketplace.  Setting up membership subscriptions will allow you to do these easily.

CREATING A NEW USER GROUP

The first thing you want to do, is make sure you have created your upgraded user group.  Select Users > Create User Group.

On the next screen, you will see the following:

mojoPortal Tips: Review of the Site Membership Pro Plugin for mojoPortal, Part 2

Last Updated on Monday, 7 May 2012 04:27 Written by Carole Bennett Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:00

In Part 1, we covered how to install and set up an instance of the Site Membership Pro plugin. Now we’ll cover how to enable the e-commerce capabilities, and review the user experience side of how the plugin works.

First of all, you’ll need to determine which of the following you’ll want to use for your website payment processor:

• Authorize.net
• PayPal Website Payments Pro
• PayPal Standard
• Google Checkout

Do keep under consideration that you’ll want to leverage SSL for Authorize.net or PayPal Website Payments Pro; for an overview of how SSL works with mojoPortal, read the article “Use SSL” on the mojoPortal site.

Once you’ve chosen and implemented your payment processor of choice, using the instructions at the links above, it’s time to review the end user part of the process.