Paid subscriptions is a method to give forum benefits to your users in exchange of a monetary donation or payment. With this function, you can choose the name of the donation, amount and a membergroup that will be automatically assigned to the user once the payment is done and other options.

From here you can edit the payment methods available to your users. To view this area, you must enable it via the Core Features page.

Enabling the Paid Subscriptions

The Subscriptions must be enabled first. To achieve this, you must go to Administration Center > Configuration > Core Features and select the option Paid Subscriptions option. Once the setting is enabled, a memebergroup for the subscription must be created. To see the what configurate it, check the Settings. Once everything is setup, the suscription options must be filled by going to Administration Center > Members > Paid Subscriptions > View Subscriptions. There by clicking the Add Subscription button, the settings for the creation will be display to be set up and create the subscription.

Settings

Note: For subscriptions to be automatically updated for your users, you will need to setup a return URL for each of your payment methods. For all payment types, this return URL should be set as:

• http://yoursite.com/smf/subscriptions.php

You can edit the link for paypal directly, by clicking here. For the other gateways (If installed) you can normally find it in your customer panels, usually under the term "Return URL" or "Callback URL".

• Send Notification Emails - Inform the admin when a subscription automatically is payed or changes.
• Email for Correspondence - Comma-separated list of addresses to email notifications to in addition to other forum admins.

• Select Currency - Selects the currency (USD, EUR, GBP, etc.) (See More).
• Enable test mode - This puts the paid subscriptions into "test" mode, which will, wherever possible, use sandbox payment methods in PayPal, Authorize.net etc. Note: The "test" mode must be disabled to make real payments.

Paypal

• Paypal email address - The email address which that links the PayPal account. Leave blank if you do not wish to use paypal.

View Subscriptions

Before this sub-area will work, you must enable it via the Settings.

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