CBSubs™ beyond Memberships and ACL

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CBSubs™ beyond Memberships and ACL
@ J and Beyond

Our profiles:
Beat B.
Nick A.
‘nant’ on forums
Athens, Greece
MS EE, MS CS
Telecom / CIO
“Good engineers don’t need tools, bad ones also have no use for them”
‘beat’ on forums
Lake Geneva, Switzerland
MS EE/CS, PhD CS
Internet security / web-apps
“Make it as simple as possible, but no less”
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Presentation Agenda
What is CBSubs™ - setting expectations
The package
Documentation
Basic entities and terminology
How content protection works
The CBSubs™ subscription module
How integration works
The architecture
Sample use cases
Cost structure, how to get it, support
Summary
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What is CBSubs™ - expectations
CBSubs™ …
… is a powerful paid subscriptions membership solution with a built-in content protection mechanism and many integrations with well known Joomla extensions.
… is a set of Community Builder plug-ins and supporting CMS extensions that can transform your Joomla website into a free or paid membership website
… has a built-in access control mechanism that can restrict access to virtually any CMS content element based on specific membership plans.
Membership software is used to either manage free membership to a website and restrict access to certain parts of the site to those that have signed up, or manage paid membership, allowing access to premium content on a website for a monthly or annual fee.
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!!! We needed it – we developed it !!!

The package
One main CB plugin
One Joomla plugin
One Joomla module
18 optional integration plugins
1 English language plugin
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The documentation
Quality
300 pages
Very detailed
Many use cases presented
Hundreds of pictures
Special forum for doc suggestions
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Payment Gateway
Payment Organization
Plan (subscription, donation, merchandise)
Duration period (different first period possible)
Grace period
Price (different first period pricing possible)
Auto-recurring payment
Number of recurrences allowed (could be zero)
Integrations (actions w. start/end of plan subscription)
Subscription
Start date, end date, renewal date, etc.
Payment, status, notification, etc.
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Plan hierarchies
Exclusive plans
Upgrades
Pro-rating
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Payment center
Payment center shows nice overview of last 7 day activity:
Number of transactions, Completed payments, New Registrations, Upgrades, Renewals
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Main panel
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Payment Gateways
Payment gateways can be configured for Paypal (*), Authorize.net (*), YellowPay (Swiss), Dummy, Offline* Also support recurring payments
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Plans overview
Plan overview area shows nice summary of available plans
Easy to see plan name, exclusivity, duration and pricing, etc.
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How content protection works
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Control access to any CMS content element!

Article protection
Article teasers can be shown, but access to main content requires subscription.
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Module protection
Hiding a module
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Component protection
Even if user knows direct URL to component, CBSubs™ will not allow access with needed subscription.
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URL-parts protection
Can be used to protect access to specific URL defined functions of a component. Example: Kunena forum categories!
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CBSubs™ module
The subscription module can be used to market up-sell messages
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Weekly pan subscriber see this
Guest visitor sees this

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Included integration plugins: CB Fields, GroupJive, DOCman, Remository, Jawards, Jevents, Alphauserpoints, idevaffiliate, pap4.

CBSubs™ plan subscriber will be automatically added to 2 DOCman groups when subscription starts and will be automatically removed when subscription ends.
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Of course we can verify this in DOCman backend …
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SQL integration
In order to support more integration CBSubs™ has a SQL action integration plugin included in the package. This plugin is used to execute specific SQL statements for each member when his/her subscription starts and ends.
This is a very powerful tool and must be used with care.
CBSubs™ forums already have many SQL statements to integrate with Joomla extensions at the database level:
SOBI, Mosets Trees, Acajoom newsletter, AcyMailing newsletter, Agora forum, JoomGallery
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URL integration
There are cases where SQL actions will not suffice to accomplish out integration needs. The URL integration plugin will automatically execute a specific URLs when specific subscription actions take place.
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CB Tabs / Fields protection
Specify who sees what, where and when!
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Must be a Plan A subscriber to see a specific CB field/tab in his profile
Must be a Plan B subscriber to see a CB field / tab in someone else’s profile

Architecture
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Architecture
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Community Builder™ vs. CBSubs™
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CBSubs™ 1.1
In workgroup testing
Has Gateway API
2checkout support included
Fully translatable
Partner developer program
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CBSubs™ 1.1 in testing
Key features
Support of Authorize.net new silent calls for auto-recurring payments
Can support compatible payment gateways
2Checkout payment gateway support included
Backend now fully translatable via language plug-in
Bug fixes of course
In CBSubs™ workgroup for testing, so should be released in June.
CBSubs™ 1.2 will have:
Open API for other integrations (plug-ins, products)
Coupons
Global taxes and VAT
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Sample use cases
Download club
Supplier – Consumer model:
Dating use case
Model – agency case
Teacher – student case
Clubs – associations – organizations
Paid support use cases
VIP clients get special treatment (e.g., access to special forum)
Access to knowledgebase articles, ticketing system, etc.
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Cost structure
All this for …
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30 day money-back, no questions asked guarantee

How to get it
Visit your Joomlapolis user profile and Click on Subscriptions tab
Check CB Subscriptions plugin, select users count, number of sites and maintenance pack and click Donate/Buy/Upgrade button to check-out
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How to get it
Once your check-out process and payment is complete, you will receive an email containing information about how to download.
Your Joomlapolis Subscription tab will also be adjusted to show your licensenumber
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CBSubs 1.0.3 package
CBSubs 1.0.3 pdf

Support
Forum support area dedicated to CBSubs usershttp://www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/task,listcat/catid,86/
CB Team members respond to forums daily
Sometime remote access is requested to further assist
Experimenting with remote assistance sessions
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Documentation is plenty, functionality is rich, code quality is great, but use cases are infinite…
So, we are here to help you!

Summary
CBSubs™ is a powerhouse tool that can:
Transform you Joomla site into a money making machine by enabling content for money type subscriptions
Protect any Joomla content and charge a subscription fee to access
Manage your membership subscriptions automatically granting or revoking privileges when needed
Sell your merchandise items
Collect your donations
Integrate with many key Joomla extensions
Thank you ….
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