Overview
The CB Subscriptions System - CBSubsTM - is a commercial offering that can transform your CB powered website into a money making machine.
CBSubsTM allows you to setup different Subscription plans that your website members can subscribe to. Subscription plans have many different attributes that virtually allow you to support almost any imaginable use case scenario. A subscription plan can be created to have a specific duration (ranging from minutes to years), a price tag (any amount in any currency) and can be used as the basis to gain access to specific content (sections, categories, individual articles, menus, modules, etc) and features (integration with other components). CBSubsTM handles payment process currently integrating with Paypal, Authorize.net and YellowPay. More payment gateways will shortly follow. Offline payments are also supported.
CBSubsTM is extremely flexible and expandable. There are many integration plugins already in place that allow CBSubsTM to integrate with the following extensions/functionality:
- CB fields (ability to modify the value of CB fields of a member based on subscribed plan)
- DOCman (ability to add/remove members to/from DOCman groups based on subscribed plan)
- Remository (ability to add/remove members to/from Remository groups based on subscriber plan)
- idevaffliate integration
- PAP (Post Affiliate Pro) integration
- Google Analytics integration
- jAwards integration
- Virtuemart integration
- GroupJive integration
- Plan image functionality (ability to assign an image to plan subscribers)
- Folder protection integration (add/remove members to htaccess and passwd files based on subscription plan)
- Email marketing functionality (ability to send personalized email messages upon specific subscription related events)
- CB field/tab protection (ability to hide or show CB fields and/or Tabs based on subscription plan)
- SQL action functionality (ability to trigger and execute specific dynamic SQL statements based on subscription plan activation/expiration)
Many more integration plugins will become available very soon and may also be developed on a professional budget basis.
Some applicable use case scenarios that can be implemented with CBSubsTM include:
- Download Subscription club cases
You can very easily setup your very own download subscription club by using DOCman or Remository and have CBSubsTM automatically add/remove members to specific relevant DOCman/Remository groups based on CBSubsTM subscription plan activation/expiration. CBSubsTM will handle everything! Payments, personalized welcome emails, group assignment provisioning, group removal provisioning, upgrades to better plans, etc. All you need to do is setup your download area and groups and count your money using CBSubsTM graphical tracking area and statistics panel!
- Content Subscription business cases
With CBSubsTM you can protect specific CMS (Joomla/Mambo) content items or content groups and make these items accessible only for paid subscribers based on specific CBSubsTM subscription plans. Members not enrolled in proper plan will encounter a (language file customizable) "You need to subscriber to view" message along with a link to the appropriate plan(s) that would unlock the protected content (article, category, section, etc) that was attempted to be accessed. You can also specify to show only the introduction part of the content item (the part before the -- read more -- link). If you embed video clips in the protected content area you can use this scenario for a simple access to training material paid subscription site. All content items are protected without any Joomla/Mambo hacking! Everything is cleanly designed and coded. No shortcuts, just good professionally designed and implemented solutions!
- Advanced Membership business cases
CBSubsTM can be used to create subscription plans that give extra privileges to members based on their subscribed plans. Example: enable gallery tab for paid members, give extra quota based on advanced subscription plan, provide profile-blog or profile-wall tab to paid members, give authoring privileges, protect access to specific components (e.g., only paid members can submit directory items). The possibilities are endless.
- Provider - Consumer type use cases
You can use CBSubsTM to provision various provider-consumer type sites. Example: student-teacher sites where teachers and students have different tabs/fields and student cannot see other students grades but teachers can see all student grades. Model-agency sites, where agencies have different profile tabs than models, models cannot see other model pictures but agencies can see all model pictures. Also extra pay may permit models to upload more pictures. There is alot of flexibility and you should be able to make CBSubsTM work for your specific use case.
You can also specify Donation plans and Merchandise plans with CBSubsTM.
A Donation plan, is in reality a single payment plan with no applicable duration period and no real extra privileges. A donation plan may be used multiple times by a single user. A Merchandise plan is similar to a donation plan but it is tracked differently by CBSubsTM and it is usually used to give access to a download item.
You can of course combine all three CBSubsTM product types (Subscription, Donation, Merchandise) on your website. Example: Joomlapolis has a documentation subscription plan, a donation plan and a MyCommunity template Merchandise plan.
CBSubsTM is a commercial plugin for CB, which is proprietary encoded, and licensed, in order to provide continuous system-integrity check for enhanced security, allow for top support and continued development as a mission critical component of your site.
The CBSubsTM solution is extremely flexible and its configuration options are many. Hopefully this overview does it justice and has given you enough incentive to further investigate CBSubsTM features and posibilities. And if your specific use case cannot be satisfied, you can request a professionally sponsored feature addon extension or integration plugin.