Thank you for you help so far in deciding about/on EasySocial.
We have a couple of final questions that I'd like to get input on from members. I apologize for two topics in a single post.
1. How well would subscription models / billing work. I was able to find on addon that seems to offer subscription payments / billing, but from their support forum and lack of ratings / reviews I am not at all clear whether it would be a sufficient solution. Are there other payment modules available?
2. We plan to offer membership at a minimum of free, standard and premium levels. Possible another level might be added in the future. Access to some content would be based upon membership level.
In EasySocial I see the option to create additional profile types. Then in, say a blog post, I see the drop down to set access by anyone, registered, friends, etc. I assume as I add new profiles, they would automatically be included in the drop down options.
However, I can't tell if these privileges can "roll up" to higher levels of membership. I.e. I assume a registered member could see everything "anyone" could see by default since they are 'anyone'.
But if I have a standard level and a premium level, and the premium level would be able to access all content available to anyone, standard and of premium levels. When I designate content for a "standard" level" how do I also make it available to the premium level?
The profile creator only allows hierarchies based upon standard Joomla groups as far as I can tell. Similarly, in K2 or Komento, the ACL only allows setting of privileges by function such as edit or write, not be content area or user group designations.
It's possible we might be able to make something from creating a new hierarchy in Joomla, but would it become available in EasyBlog/Komento as well? Would it then automatically allow higher hierarchies to inherit permissions from lower hierarchies?
If the general gist of this question is clear, I need to understand how to set subscription levels for content, whether multiple levels are allows with either a multi-select option or hierarchical levels, and whether payment modules are sufficiently supported to allow set up of subscription payments. Obviously, we would prefer this be integrated and automatic, but are willing to live with manual until growth permits the provisioning of custom code.
We have a couple of final questions that I'd like to get input on from members. I apologize for two topics in a single post.
1. How well would subscription models / billing work. I was able to find on addon that seems to offer subscription payments / billing, but from their support forum and lack of ratings / reviews I am not at all clear whether it would be a sufficient solution. Are there other payment modules available?
2. We plan to offer membership at a minimum of free, standard and premium levels. Possible another level might be added in the future. Access to some content would be based upon membership level.
In EasySocial I see the option to create additional profile types. Then in, say a blog post, I see the drop down to set access by anyone, registered, friends, etc. I assume as I add new profiles, they would automatically be included in the drop down options.
However, I can't tell if these privileges can "roll up" to higher levels of membership. I.e. I assume a registered member could see everything "anyone" could see by default since they are 'anyone'.
But if I have a standard level and a premium level, and the premium level would be able to access all content available to anyone, standard and of premium levels. When I designate content for a "standard" level" how do I also make it available to the premium level?
The profile creator only allows hierarchies based upon standard Joomla groups as far as I can tell. Similarly, in K2 or Komento, the ACL only allows setting of privileges by function such as edit or write, not be content area or user group designations.
It's possible we might be able to make something from creating a new hierarchy in Joomla, but would it become available in EasyBlog/Komento as well? Would it then automatically allow higher hierarchies to inherit permissions from lower hierarchies?
If the general gist of this question is clear, I need to understand how to set subscription levels for content, whether multiple levels are allows with either a multi-select option or hierarchical levels, and whether payment modules are sufficiently supported to allow set up of subscription payments. Obviously, we would prefer this be integrated and automatic, but are willing to live with manual until growth permits the provisioning of custom code.