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. CBSubs is a membership plugin that allows restricting access to any CMS content like articles, components and modules based on subscription plans, and integrates with payment gateways and extensions like Community Builder, DOCman and JEvents. It provides a powerful yet flexible solution for paid memberships on Joomla sites.

1. CBSubs™ beyond Memberships and ACL
Overview Presentation (02-11-2011)

2. Presentation Agenda
 Membership site features
 CBSubs™ Overview
 Quick demo – look and feel
 More information / questions ?
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3. Membership site features
 A membership site may/should:
 … support membership plan subscriptions (paid or free, validity
period, recurring or not, trial period or not, etc.)
 … have specific site related privileges only available to
subscribers.
 … be able to manage subscribers (plan newsletters, plan icons,
mass emailing, etc.)
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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4. CBSubs™ Overview
 CBSubs™ main characteristics:
 Clean solution – no hacks – works natively (Joomla, Mambo)
 Supports major payment organizations (PP, A.net, 2CO, etc.)
 Supports subscriptions, donations, monetary sales items
 Subscription plans highly configurable (price, duration, trials,
recurring, sales tax, privileges, etc.)
 Powerful promotions engine with coupons and conditions
 Protect ANY CMS content (articles, components, modules,
URL-parts, etc.) against any subscription plan without need for
additional ACL extension
 Integration with Community Builder and major extensions
(DOCman, Remository, AcyMailing, JAwards, JEvents,
GroupJive, VirtueMart, etc.)
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5. What is CBSubs™ - expectations
!!! We needed it – we developed it !!!
 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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6. The package
 One main CB plugin
 One Joomla plugin
 One Joomla module
 18 optional
integration plugins
 1 English language
plugin
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7. The documentation
 Quality
 400+ pages
 Very detailed
 Many use cases presented
 Hundreds of pictures
 Special forum for doc suggestions
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8. Basic entities and terminology
 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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9. More
Basic entities and terminology
 Plan hierarchies
 Exclusive plans
 Upgrades
 Pro-rating
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10. More
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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11. More
Main panel
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12. More
Payment Gateways
 Payment gateways can be configured for Paypal
(*), Authorize.net (*), PostFinance(Swiss), Ogone
(International), 2CheckOut, CCBill, AlertPay, Moneris, Dumm
y, Offline
* Also support recurring payments
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13. More
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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14. How content protection works
CMS content
published Control access to any CMS
content element!
Components
URL-parts
CBSubs™ bot Menus
intercepts Modules
Articles
Categories
Sections
Content blocked
or available if
authorized by plan
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15. More
Article protection
 Article teasers can be shown, but access to main content
requires subscription.
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16. More
Module protection
 Hiding a module
Expensive plan
has extra
Cheaper plan
module
does not
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17. More
Component protection
 Even if user knows direct URL to component, CBSubs™ will
not allow access with needed subscription.
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18. More
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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19. CBSubs™ module
 The subscription module can be used to market up-sell
messages
Guest Weekly plan
visitor subscriber
sees this see this
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20. How integration works
• Component needs to be installed (e.g., DOCman)
• Component configuration (e.g., DOCman groups created and
A documents uploaded)
• CBSubs™ integration plugin needs to be installed (e.g.,
cbplug_int_cbsubsdocman-E.zip) and published
B
• CBSubs™ plan integration area must be configured as per use case.
• Subscription action (start / end) will trigger relevant integration
C action.
Included integration plugins: CB Fields, GroupJive, DOCman,
Remository, Jawards, Jevents, Alphauserpoints, idevaffiliate, pap4.
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21. More
How integration works
 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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22. More
How integration works
 Of course we can verify this in DOCman backend …
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23. More
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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24. More
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.
First subscription
• http://www.mysite.com/insert.php?username=[username]
activation
Subscription
• http://www.mysite.com/renew.php?username=[username]
renewal
Subscription
• http://www.mysite.com/deactivate.php?username=[username]
deactivation
Subscription
• http://www.mysite.com/expire.php?username=[usrename]
expiration
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25. More
CB Tabs / Fields protection
 Specify who sees what, where and when!
Must be a Plan B
Must be a Plan A
subscriber to see a
subscriber to see a
CB field / tab in
specific CB field/tab
someone else’s
in his profile
profile
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26. Architecture
Membership
Management
CBSubs™
Community
Builder
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27. More
Architecture
CBSubs™
Joomla
Joomla Extensions
• Joomla 1.0.X • CB • Settings
• Joomla 1.5.X • DOCman • Currency CBSubs™
• Joomla 1.6.? • Remository • Gateways • Privileges
• Jawards • Plans
Plan A
• Jevents • Baskets
• VirtuMart • Payments
• GroupJive • Notifications CBSubs™
• Alphapoints • Subscriptions • Privileges
• Pap4 • Donations Plan B
• Idevaffiliate • Merchandise
• AcyMailing • Statistics
• SOBI • History log
• Mostrees CBSubs™
• JoomGallery
• Privileges
Plan C
• Kunena
• many more
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28. More
Community Builder™ vs. CBSubs™
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29. Quick demo – look and feel
 Main points
 Backend overview
 CB user manager additions (filtering, subscription tab)
 Content Protection examples
 Article access
 Download privileges
 Module hiding
 Component access
 URL-parts
 CB field/tab protection examples
 Hide/show CB field/tab based on owner subscription and viewer
subscription
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30. More info – questions?
 Commercial licensed product
 Joomlapolis area for CBSubs™:
www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/cbsubs
 Joomlapolis presales area:
www.joomlapolis.com/forum/87-presales
 CBSubs demo site:
cbsubs1.cbdemosites.com/
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