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Premium Lite Request

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First of all, let me just say thanks for providing this service. I just joined and the plugins are great.

I have installed the premium lite plugin, and have tested all the functionality successfully!! Very nice!

It looks like you’ve built the plugin in such a way as to support lots of options for credits. I would like to offer some plugins for purchase with credits for my members. For example

1) e-commerce. I have this module installed now, but I would like to make it only available via credits

2) ad-sense. I would like to allow members to purchase the ability to use their own ad-sense ad’s instead of mine. This plugin already exists, I just want to make it credit driven.

Can you offer any tips on getting started with this? Do you have an example that I could use to get started? Ideally, I would like to have the plugins shown on the plugins screen, but instead of activate, it would say (purchase credits) or something to that effect. Then once they purchased credits, they could activate the plugin.

Thanks for any advice/tips you can lend!!

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:54:23
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Re #2: Dupe the plugin as a second file. You’re going to have to change the function names with the file though so not to run into conflicts. Then make the new plugin available via a new Premium Package.

    #1 is pretty much the same way. When you create a new Premium Package, it give you the option to make a plugin available.

    Now, I’ve got a question. is it me or is it hard coded to only allow for three packages? (edit: I see where it’s done in the code.)

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops
      Now, I’ve got a question. is it me or is it hard coded to only allow for three packages?

    Yep, it’s hard coded. The premium plugin was initially planned for incsub clients only but we decided to give to the premium subscribers as “Premium Lite”.

    Premium Lite is basically a somewhat smaller version of the “Premium Plugin”. Nothing is missing that would make the plugin any less useful but there are a few limitations. A few “nice to have but not necessary” features have been removed as well.

    Note: Obviously you can edit the code to allow for more.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • jman
    • Flash Drive

    Is there any update on created a more streamlined process for buying subscriptions? If there isn’t I guess I will hack together something that allows me to bypass the token system and just subscribe easily. I was wondering if you might have any recommendations on how to do this effectively.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops
      Is there any update on created a more streamlined process for buying subscriptions?

    We currently don’t have any plans to change the credits system so i’m afraid you’ll have to customize the plugin to meet your needs.

      I was wondering if you might have any recommendations on how to do this effectively.

    We used the credit system to avoid having to deal with this exact situation so I really can’t be of much help since I haven’t thought it through myself.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops
      I was just wondering if there was a “it’s going to break something”

    Nope. However for every package you have the number of queries increases. This won’t be a problem on smaller sites but on large ones I wouldn’t recommend going over ten packages.

    Thanks,

    Andrew