Paid subscriptions are live

I've added a button in the navigation bar where you can access the paid subscriptions for the site.
At present, I have added only the payment options for the BST forum. We are going to let them overlap with the current existing permissions that were reused from the old classifieds system. We'll give everyone a couple of weeks to sign up, after which we'll remove the existing ones.

You'll notice there are 2 different options, with the same duration and value.
The one with the asterisk next to it is recurring, meaning that it will automatically renew every year as long as you let it.
Cancelling is done easily in your paypal settings.

please explain. i wasn't aware that i was missing anything. does this mean the site won't be free any more?

Only for selling in Buy Sell Trade.

It works ! :tu

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Yup - worked for me as well....I did the auto renewing one, no problem, receipt arrived right away - all good.

I'm also signed up. Now I just have to get my act together an post some razors on B/S/T.

Done and done.

Thanks all. I have disabled the subscription for a short while, while I verify the ones who signed up.
There are a number of failures in the transaction log that I want to verify.

Rest assured, the situation will be rectified. I see the transactions in the log, but for some reason they got marked as a failure instead of a charge so the promotion was not carried out. I will investigate further with the staff, re-enable the subscription button when it is fixed, and manually correct the errors.
In the meantime the current free permissions will remain in effect.

The people whose subscription was not marked active, were automatically corrected sometime between this morning and now.
It seems that in some cases there is a delay. I'll double check and post my findings.

Ok here is what had happened:
For some reason, the subscription confirmation was no recognized as such, due to an email alias. As soon as it was corrected, the confirmations all matched up with the transactions and all subscriptions were in order.
This was already in order shortly after I changed the alias. Only one member remained of whom the transaction could not be found, but I got the confirmation just now that that was a misunderstanding. Said member had made a donation instead of a subscription :)

So everything got sorted and I enabled the subscriptions button again.

Atta Boy, Bruno!!

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It seemed to work fine for me just now

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It seemed to work fine for me just now

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I just checked, and the subscription was confirmed from the first time with an immediate success.

Just subscribed.

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Worked for me just moments ago. :)

Is there a Notice or Alert that will let us know when the subscription is near to expiring?

Normally you will get a reminder via email.
I just checked and I see the transactions (yours and the previous ones) just once, marked as successful.

Those who have a recurring subscription will get the same notice, and their paypal will automatically renew when it is due unless they cancel their subscription.

Worked here also!

Seems to have worked fine :beer1:

I have only just notice this thread, I have just paid, on the rolling yearly one, ;)

I've paid up as well, not the recurring though.... I may not be breathing next year so I prefer not to leave the Mrs. with lots of recurring payments to sort out... She is NOT keen on computers at all and prefers things the old fashioned way.

I have no reason to believe I won't be here, but this is just in case.

Bruno, is there some way we can tell that things have gone through OK? I was thinking along the lines of a little LED or star or something along the same line as the little green dot that indicates that a user is currently on the board.

Yes I also paid for my subscription but is there a way we can tell we've done it other than the paypal receipt? Kaptain_Zero brings up a good point. The members with paid subscriptions should have some universal way of identifying. Maybe by putting the paid subscription members in a group? Name colour change? A Star like was mentioned beside the names of the users.

I'm sure someone can come up with a better idea though.

Paid - that was easy - thanks - I would suggest that buyers pay as well - I am usually a buyer and benefit as much as the seller!!