Purchasing Discount Coupons

Hi,

I'm trying to implement a group/family plan on mysite. I already had a subs system, and have just got CB/Groupjive to add a community to the site but the community side would benefit from a group subscription.

I've been reading the 2 tutorials - Family Plan and Purchasing Discount coupons.

Purchasing Discount coupons seems the easiest to implement, however I'm unclear about the membership dates. My subscribers are added to a usergroup to allow access to restricted content.

Following the Purchasing Discount coupons tutorial,

Use Case 1 - a plan that creates a 5-use coupon code, potentially the code could be used at 11 month intervals to get almost 5 years of access? - the single user plans could be purchased at 100% discount at any time in the future?
Use Case 2 - limit the validity of the coupons to a month - the single user plans would at most be valid a month after the initial subscription.

The tutorial makes a note that in use case 2 the single user might expire after the family plan, but it doesn't mention this in use case 1.

Is this correct for use case 1?

Generating coupons is the easiest approach. There's no features in place for managing subscriptions for other users. You can generate coupons from latest CB Auto Actions now as well using CB Paid Subscriptions action type so you don't have to deal with direct database queries anymore. This can be combined with the below to generate coupons when they subscribe to a specific plan for example.

Plan Active
Global
Triggers: onCPayUserStateChange
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
1: [var3] Equal To PLAN_ID_HERE
2: [var2] Equal To A

Plan Expired
Global
Triggers: onCPayUserStateChange
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
1: [var3] Equal To PLAN_ID_HERE
2: [var2] Not Equal To A