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Fri, 01/25/2008 - 12:52
 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 
Re: Trial Memberships
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. 
Updates?
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.
Re: Updates?
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. 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.
Re: Re: Updates?
Great, that's good news. So I need these four features: - free trials It sounds like recurring has been integrated. How about the others? Any feedback on how long and complicated they would be to integrate?
Re: Re: Updates?
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,
hi,guys
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.
Re: hi,guys
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.
Following up
Are any of the payment modules integrated with the recurring fee handler yet? If so, would it be possible to know which ones? This type of functionality would be critical for us.
Ryan wrote:The core
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. When setting the product price to 0.00 and handling the charges with the recurring module (uc_cim) it is charging $1.00. I do not know where the $1 is coming from because I have no products for that price and have never entered that figure. I wonder if CIM doesn't allow you to charge less than $1? If this is the case, I am not sure what other approach I can take. Any ideas?
Auto-cancellation
Thanks for all your hard work. I'd like to know more about auto-cancellation. Running Drupal 6.x and UC 2.x beta1. Are there any facilities in UC for automatic cancellation of payments? I'm designing a multi-tiered paid-membership site, using core UC recurring payment functionality with Paypal, assigning role feature to a product. I need a way to automate cancellation of a "lower level" membership subscription when customer purchases a "higher level" membership. I know UC takes care of recurring payments with Paypal, but I need a way of canceling an existent recurrent payment automatically. Any information you could provide would be helpful.
Free Product
MODULE: UC Free Order Payment Method by Ryan. Implement the following steps: 1.- Install module 2.- In Workflow-ng you'll need to create a custom Workflow configuration. Ryan recommends using the "order is updated" function... check the order's payment method for free order in a condition, and if that's found then perform an action to update the order to "Completed." 3.- Send an appreciation note to Ryan for providing this excellent solution !! |
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I wish that hadn't fallen by the wayside.