Audit your memberships monthly

  • Jason Lau

    (@jason-lau)


    6 months ago

    I have a love/hate relationship with this plugin. There are some things that I love about it, and some things that I loathe about it.

    Most importantly, it fails at its primary function of managing paid memberships.

    I had been using this plugin confidently for many years, and I just assumed it was doing what it was supposed to do.

    I recently audited my memberships versus payments for the first time, and I was shocked to learn that I have lost a lot of money. Many of my website’s users were getting free service; many of them for years, costing me thousands of dollars in lost income and stolen service!

    Turns out, this plugin hasn’t been downgrading memberships when users miss payments or cancel their subscriptions.

    s2member doesn’t maintain any payment records whatsoever. Therefore, it’s not easy to audit subscription payments versus memberships.

    I now audit my site every month.

    • This topic was modified 6 months ago by Jason Lau.
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  • Plugin Author Cristián Lávaque

    (@clavaque)

    Hi Jason.

    I’m sorry you had that problem! There must be something misconfigured that prevented the demotions. s2Member’s demotion is activated and set from: WP Admin > s2Member > PayPal Options > Automatic End-Of-Term Behavior

    Also, it’s important that the payment gateway is notifying s2Member correctly of ended subscriptions, so it can tell when to demote/delete the user. WP Admin > s2Member > PayPal Options > Instant Payment Notifications

    And while troubleshooting, it’s helpful to enable s2’s logging, so one can go over the logs for the notifications, and see if they got to s2, and what happened. WP Admin > s2Member > Log Files

    There is a separate payments log addon for s2, normally the payments are followed and reviewed in the payments gateway, which is the one that has all their details and manages them.

    But I see how it’d be hard to now spot several ended subscriptions in the gateway, against your site users to adjust them… Let me think if something could be done to check them in bulk…

    I see you started a forum thread, too. I’ll answer there as well. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/memberships-not-downgraded-automatically/

    ??

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