Hi guys, I've checked out your suggestions and could not find a way out for the pre-paid membership codes functionality in conjunction with the regular membership functionality that membership suit provides.

This is the usecase:

There are 2 ways of accessing the premium content of the site. The first one is what membership suite provides (buying a membership plan through the site).

In the second scenario, the user doesn't buy the membership plan in the website. He either buys it in a store, he get's it as a birthday present, he get's it inside the big Kellogs or at the RRHH department of his company. It's a pre-paid membership.

Should this be a feature request ?? does anyone agree in this being a useful feature ? or is it that I didn't get it and it's really doable with the modules mentioned, (reg codes, rules, etc) ?

I've been thinking on how to implement this funcionality into membership suite core (from the usability perspective). It goes like this:

When creating a membership plan, the sysadmin can choose it's type: regular or pre-paid. Regular membership plans work as usual, untouched.

Pre-paid plans ask for a code (instead of actual checkout) and that's the only difference (after some minor adjustment like disabling the recurring option in this type of plans).

Codes are generated by the sysadmin for each pre-paid plan (and they can only enable that plan). Distribution of the codes would be out of the scope of membership suie.

All the rest should work as usual.

This would enable tons of usecases. I could help with further clarification of the specs as I am in need of this and have thought a lot on how to get it done.

Any comments ??

All the best !!!

Rafa.

Hi Leighton, maybe close but not *that* close I'd say :) The idea of supporting prepaid memberships is much more general than that. It doesn't deal with sale or distribution of the codes.

Having this basic (but deeply integrated) functionality would allow lot's of very different usecases, taking advantage of the existing membership suite framework. Users would be able to activate their premium account at anytime with a pre-paid membership code and activate again after it expires. It could be requested at registration or not. It could be a lifetime membership plan or any other plan defined, etc. The codes could be sold in stores, given away as promotion, solk in bulk to distributors or companies, etc, etc. Lot's of possibilities with this fine move.

The gift addon you talk about is a nice feature but I think the key to supporting prepaid memberships is allowing the flexibility that membership suite features currently provide and that's why I was thinking of a "membership plan TYPE" solution.

I'd love to help with development but I've never used PHP or Drupal :(

Do you see potential in this feature ?

Maybe we can reuse some of the functionality that d.o modules provide (management of membership codes, etc).

Thanks !