Questions on CBSubs -Gateway and AcyMailing

It looks like we'll need to add CBSubs to our CB site based on what you have told us so far and going back and reviewing the issues we'll have if we do not change.

I have two questions that perhaps you can answer that will help us make the decision.

1. The documentation does not indicate STRIPE is an available gateway for recurring subscriptions. However, there are responses that indicate that it is available.  Can we use Stripe for recurring transactions?

2. The AcyMailing plugin could be very useful to us.  We have two questions about its functionality. a) Are the LISTS shown in the AcyMailiing tab dynamically populated so all lists are shown? We create a lot of Lists and remove others frequently is why we ask. b) On plan deactivation, does the "remove" option delete the AcyMailing list and the associate list of users?  (We don't want to have the email subscribers left on our system once the list has been deactivated is why we ask.)

Thank you for whatever information you can pass on to us.


 

1. The documentation does not indicate STRIPE is an available gateway for recurring subscriptions. However, there are responses that indicate that it is available. Can we use Stripe for recurring transactions?

Stripe is available. All available payment gateways are listed on the CBSubs page below.

www.joomlapolis.com/addons/cb-paid-subscriptions

2. The AcyMailing plugin could be very useful to us. We have two questions about its functionality. a) Are the LISTS shown in the AcyMailiing tab dynamically populated so all lists are shown? We create a lot of Lists and remove others frequently is why we ask. b) On plan deactivation, does the "remove" option delete the AcyMailing list and the associate list of users? (We don't want to have the email subscribers left on our system once the list has been deactivated is why we ask.)

Unless you're editing and saving your plans constantly the list ids will be saved and checked for during subscription, but AcyMailing won't subscribe them to lists that aren't available. I believe AcyMailing removes the subscribers when the list is removed as well. So this should work fine.

If you need something to be highly dynamic you may need to use CB Auto Actions for this, which can act on CBSubs subscription triggers in the same way the CBSubs integrations do so custom behavior on subscription change for basically anything you want is at your fingertips.

Thanks Krileon, your advice and thorough responses have convinced me we need to be using CBSubs.
I'm going there now to update our package.
Much appreciated!

Awesome, glad to hear it! If you do end up needing to use CB Auto Actions for custom subscription status behavior the below will get you started.

Plan Active
Global
Triggers: onCPayUserStateChange
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
Condition 1
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var3]
Operator: Equal To
Value: PLAN_ID_HERE
Condition 2
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var2]
Operator: Equal To
Value: A

Plan Expired
Global
Triggers: onCPayUserStateChange
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
Condition 1
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var3]
Operator: Equal To
Value: PLAN_ID_HERE
Condition 2
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var2]
Operator: Not Equal To
Value: A

Simply replace PLAN_ID_HERE with the ID of the plan you want to act on and you're good to go. You can do pretty much whatever you like from here. Run custom queries, run custom PHP, use any of the many included action types, etc.. We've very few hard limits throughout our plugins as we provide A LOT of triggers to act on for inserting custom logic cleanly.