CBSubs is the most powerful paid subscriptions membership management solution available for Joomla

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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