Buying Membership for Someone Else

  • Resolved Jordan Acosta

    (@elfortunawe)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    My clients want users (members and non-members) to be able to buy memberships for others as gifts. I dug around in the ipnhandler service, the memberorder class, and the template and preheader for the checkout page, and it looks like PMPro just assumes that the user is buying the membership for themselves.

    I thought it would be fairly easy to override this behavior with my own plugin, customizing the form and doing some post-processing in the pmpro_after_checkout hook, but after working on it for a while I’m not so sure. It looks like PMPro defaults to using data about the current user, and then it logs you into the new account after checkout.

    Is buying memberships for others do-able? Would it be easier (or more reliable,) to just make members log out before buying a membership for someone else?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/

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  • Thread Starter Jordan Acosta

    (@elfortunawe)

    It looks like I just need to set $subscr_id in the form, and then ipnhandler will set the membership on that user. Is that right?

    Thread Starter Jordan Acosta

    (@elfortunawe)

    I had another look at ipnhandler. It appears I was mistaken, and $subscr_id is actually the id of the user’s existing subscription, (if there is one,) instead of of the id of the subscriber.

    Anyway, it looked like the proper way to do this would be change the values using the filter hook pmpro_ipnhandler_level, but I guess that only returns the level, not the ID.

    Thread Starter Jordan Acosta

    (@elfortunawe)

    I found the two action hooks, pmpro_update_order and pmpro_add_order, and thought I had finally found what I was looking for. Neither of these hooks seem to be working, though. I tried hooking into them and logging to the Apache logs, but nothing shows up.

    Any guidance on this would be appreciated. Your plugin has been easy to work with so far, so I feel like I’m missing something here.

    Hi Jordan,

    Buying memberships for other users is one of those things that seems easy on the outside but is actually hard once you start implement it. Usually one of the best methods we recommend is to sell discount codes which can be used as “gift certificates”.

    There is also this addon which may help: https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-sponsored-members. Everything in PMPro assumes that the person checking out is the one who should be purchasing the membership.

    Hope this info helps!

    Thank You,

    Thread Starter Jordan Acosta

    (@elfortunawe)

    Thanks for the tip, and link to that plugin. Using discount codes is the approach I’ve settled on, based on advice I got from the PMPro forums.

    So I have the same need. Is there an automated way to generate those discount codes or am I going to have to do that manually?

    Thread Starter Jordan Acosta

    (@elfortunawe)

    You have to write a function to generate the code, and then give it to the user somehow.

    PMPro has a function, pmpro_getDiscountCode, you can use to generate a promo code. You’ll have to save it to the DB manually, but you can see how that’s done in the plugin linked to above.

    Since I’m using WooCommerce to sell the promo codes, I’m hooking into woocommerce_order_status_completed, checking to see what kind of code was purchased, creating a code and emailing it to the purchaser.

    Thanks Jordan – that is very helpful.

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