USING THE WEBSITE MEMBERSHIP PLUGIN - Aug 18th, 2011

An effective membership system has a number of components. Some are listed here, if you think of others, please let me know. At this writing, accounting is a manual process, but I’m sure that some of you will have ideas along those lines. I’ll share what I’ve done in each of these areas and expand this section as new information is available. • Automated Signup • Automatic/manual approval, pre-approval emails, email confirmation requirements • Account duration • Unlimited user "groups". Provide access to multiple directories to different members. • "Individual" group option. Give your members access to their own private directory, unique to their username. Only they can access it. • Customizable templates for all HTML and Email responses, including personalization fields. Example: "Hello [FIRST_NAME]" • Mass mail members and member groups with personalization fields. Example: "Hello [FIRST_NAME]" • New News Updates section. Important security or release information provided. Pop-up notification of important updates. • Member failed login attempts receive easy to understand responses and tool to retrieve member login information via email. • Automatically temporarily block large number of failed login attempts for a configurable period of time. Password-hacking protection! • Permanently ban email addresses or entire domains which you do not wish to give membership accounts to. • Form fields validated for accuracy required status, and formatting. • User search by Username, First Name, Last Name, or Email Address • Different admin assignment for different groups ACCOUNTING • Automated Recurring Billing with hooks to major pay services • Day-at-a-glance sales/income totals • Accounting Functions like account charges, billing cycle, customer edit credit card info, response to successful and unsuccessful registration attempts, automated email to remind of expiring accounts (non-recurring accounts and invalid CC info), etc.

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