Trial Memberships

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Joined: 11/02/2007

I've seen something about this mentioned in one other post here.

Would like to see this included into uc_roles possibly.

e.g.

1 Week Free Trial
Try us out for a week for free with unlimited access. Cancel anytime, but if you choose to stay with us, your subscription will automatically switched to monthly.

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Hmm... that may have to wait a bit for the 1.0 release. As of right now, recurring billing is not in core, but the module as is would allow you to make the product free, collect the CC info, and then start charging the card after 1 week. Granted, you'll have to stay on top of cancellations as those aren't automatic at the moment.

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Joined: 05/13/2008

Are there any updates on this? Free trials, recurring billing, and auto-cancellation are pretty much essential to any membership site.

Also, would like to see the option for the admin to setup free membership accounts for users with a set expiration or an indefinite membership.

Ryan, I've attempted to contact you in the past but did not hear back. We would be happy to contribute time and/or money to developing Ubercart features.

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Hmm... I guess there are some updates, in that the recurring module is now a part of core. It's primarily a framework for other modules to plug into, and I think there is now a PayPal and an Authorize.net implementation of the recurring stuff. Regarding indefinite membership, I can't remember where we left off... I have a sticky note on my monitor reminding me to comment it out, but I've seen questions in the forums recently asking how to enable it. Puzzled I wish that hadn't fallen by the wayside.

In any event, I did get your messages before but didn't reply when I saw that you guys had found the solution to that problem yourselves. Feel free to contact me if you have something specific in mind - e-mail or PM is fine. Smiling

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Great, that's good news. So I need these four features:

- free trials
- recurring billing
- auto-cancellation
- option for the admin to setup free membership accounts for users with set time

It sounds like recurring has been integrated. How about the others? Any feedback on how long and complicated they would be to integrate?

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Joined: 05/09/2008

Thank you for your reply, Ryan.

We've implemented the recurring functionality, but what about the free trial followed by monthly payment, is there anyway to do this, for example, we can let some user apply to this free trial, then we approve it, and give the user a limited period role without paying money, and in this limited period, they can cancel this so that they will avoid paying the bill after the free trial? Thank you.

Best Regards,
Yang Ru

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Joined: 05/20/2008

Ryan wrote:
Hmm... that may have to wait a bit for the 1.0 release. As of right now, recurring billing is not in core, but the module as is would allow you to make the product free, collect the CC info, and then start charging the card after 1 week. Granted, you'll have to stay on top of cancellations as those aren't automatic at the moment.

hi,guys,my ubercart is ver 1.0.
does anyone know where can change this setting?
i mean "allow you to make the product free, collect the CC info, and then start charging the card after 1 week"?
thank you.Smiling

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The core recurring modules provides for a trial period. Basically, you can just set the product price to $0.00 and then set the recurring fee to whatever you want it to be. Just don't bill the first fee until 7 days after the order is completed.

This modules works best in conjunction w/ some other credit card processing module, but there aren't a lot of payment modules w/ the recurring handler integrated yet.

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i think i get it.thank you,ryan:)