Membership Submission system allows site Admin to monetize the option that allows users to add and publish their properties.
Decide from the beginning if you want to have PAID submission or Membership Packages.
Decide from the beginning what are the free membership listings included and the number of featured included. Each new account gets a free MEMBERSHIP at registration, with free listings included and free featured listings set by Admin. If you change this limit, the change applies to NEW accounts (not old ones)
Changing options on the way, after your users have already registered and sent listings, is not recommended. Old accounts will have to be manually edited. Check here how to add a package manually https://help.wprentals.org/article/how-to-add-a-membership-package-manually-to-a-registered-subscriber-from-admin/
Multiple members packages purchases DO NOT SUM listings. Each new membership package replaces the previous one.
How to Enable Membership Submission
This is enabled from Theme Options -> Submission Payment Settings.
Create My Subscription page
If you didn’t import demo content, you must create this page manually. Check here how to import demo – https://help.wprentals.org/article/demo-setup-with-1-click-demo-import/
Set Free Membership options
From Theme Options you can choose how many free and featured listings are included in the free membership, how many days each free submission stays published.
Free Listing expiration considers the publish date + the number of days set in admin. The user will be informed about every free listing expired via email.
Free listing expiration date shows in My Listing pages for each property:
Set Membership Packages:
A Paid Membership package includes
- Name,
- payment cycle (day, week, month or year),
- payment cycle value (x days, x weeks and so on),
- listings included, featured listings included (deduct from total listings),
- package price and
- option to display package or not to user dashboard.
Set Payment Options:
The theme allows working with PayPal, Stripe or Wire Transfer.
Stripe setup help https://help.wprentals.org/article/stripe-set-up/
PayPal setup help https://help.wprentals.org/article/paypal-set-up/
Wire Transfer setup help https://help.wprentals.org/article/wire-transfer-payment-method/
How to buy a package. How to upgrade a package. How to downgrade a package.
Users see all packages in User Dashboard.
From the same menu, users buy their first package, upgrade or downgrade their purchased package
A recurring checkbox is optional. It applies to PayPal or Stripe payments ONLY. It means the payment will be taken automatically from client account when package expiration date is reached.
If payment fails when done through PayPal or Stripe, the user will continue to have Free Membership by default (if it’s the 1st purchase) or they will be downgraded to free membership if it’s a recurring payment that failed to be processed.
When users buy or upgrade to a paid package, they will receive the number of listings included in the package purchased. Listings do not sum.
If users have already published an x number of properties, those properties will be automatically deducted from the number of available listings after buying or upgrading the package with more listings included.
If the user deletes a property, that property is still counted as listing used, so the number of listings included will not change after delete.
Users CANNOT have 2 packages at the same time.
When the user upgrades to a new package, that new package limits will start to apply from the moment of the purchase, even if the user had x days/weeks/months/years from previous membership.
If users downgrade to a package with fewer listings than his current number of published listings, ALL his listings will be set to EXPIRED and they will have to be resent for approval. User CANNOT send to resubmit more listings than his current package allows him to.
If the user has Published and Expired listings, and decide to upgrade/downgrade his membership package – in case the published properties match the number of included listings in a new package (it’s a smaller or equal number), the published properties stay published. Expired listings stay expired.
How to make a property featured
A property is set as featured from My Properties:
Once the user selects the property to be featured – the number of featured listings included is updated.
Only admin can un-mark a property as featured and give the user manually another featured listing to use. The user cannot do that from his dashboard.
How to cancel a package.
A one-time payment will automatically be canceled by Stripe or PayPal at the end of package availability.
A recurring Stripe payment can be canceled from theme user dashboard. The package will expire at the end of package availability and it will not be renewed automatically.
A recurring PayPal subscription can be canceled only in user PayPal account. The package will expire at the end of package availability and it will not be renewed automatically.
IF PAYPAL OR STRYPE PAYMENT FAILS
If user’s package expires because he didn’t renew or he doesn’t have money, the package returns to FREE MEMBERSHIP by default.
EXPIRED LISTINGS
All listings will have status EXPIRED (expired listings won’t show in listings) if:
a. users package has reached the available date and the user has not purchased a new package
b. the user has chosen to have his package renewed every x days/weeks/months/years but the recurring option didn’t go through because payment failed (usually it means no money in user account)
c. user downgrades his package to a package with less included listings than the number of listings he has published.
The user is able to re-submit only the number of listings allowed by his current package.