Akeeba Subscriptions User's Guide Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos Akeeba Subscriptions User's Guide Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos Publication date September 2012 Abstract This book covers the use of the Akeeba Subscriptions component and its bundled modules and plugins for selling and managing subscriptions on your Joomla!™-powered web sites. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be found on-line at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html. Table of Contents 1. Introduction and installation .............................................................................................................. 1 1. Introducing Akeeba Subscriptions .............................................................................................. 1 2. Requirements and compatibility ................................................................................................. 2 3. Installation ............................................................................................................................. 2 3.1. Installation .................................................................................................................. 2 3.2. Installation troubleshooting ............................................................................................ 3 3.3. Updating to the latest release .......................................................................................... 5 4. Uninstallation ......................................................................................................................... 6 2. Initial set-up and usage .................................................................................................................... 7 1. How subscriptions work and Quick Start ..................................................................................... 7 2. Configuration options ............................................................................................................. 11 3. Subscription Levels ............................................................................................................... 14 4. Tax Rules ............................................................................................................................ 18 5. Upgrade Rules ...................................................................................................................... 20 6. Coupons .............................................................................................................................. 22 7. Subscriptions management ...................................................................................................... 23 8. Affiliates management ........................................................................................................... 24 9. Front-end items ..................................................................................................................... 25 10. Importing from other components ........................................................................................... 26 11. Custom fields ..................................................................................................................... 26 11.1. Accessing custom fields data ....................................................................................... 28 11.2. Localising (translating) custom fields' labels and options .................................................. 29 12. Customising Akeeba Subscriptions ......................................................................................... 29 12.1. Customising the front-end layout ................................................................................. 30 3. Payment methods, integrations and plugins ........................................................................................ 31 1. Payment methods .................................................................................................................. 31 1.1. Paypal ...................................................................................................................... 31 1.2. Paypal Payments Pro (a.k.a. PayPal Website Payments Pro) ................................................ 35 1.3. None ........................................................................................................................ 37 1.4. WorldPay .................................................................................................................. 37 1.5. Off-line ..................................................................................................................... 38 1.6. 2Checkout Standard Purchase Routine ............................................................................ 39 1.7. ccAvenue .................................................................................................................. 40 1.8. eWay ........................................................................................................................ 41 1.9. uPay ......................................................................................................................... 42 1.10. MoIP ...................................................................................................................... 43 1.11. DeltaPay (Alpha Bank, Greece) ................................................................................... 44 1.12. Google Checkout ...................................................................................................... 45 1.13. Moneris ................................................................................................................... 46 1.14. Skrill ...................................................................................................................... 47 1.15. PostFinance.ch .......................................................................................................... 47 1.16. PagSeguro ................................................................................................................ 50 1.17. Verotel .................................................................................................................... 50 1.18. RBK Money ............................................................................................................. 51 1.19. Moneris eSelect Plus ................................................................................................. 51 1.20. NoChex ................................................................................................................... 53 1.21. ZarinPal .................................................................................................................. 53 1.22. AlloPass .................................................................................................................. 53 1.23. Suomen Verkkomaksut Oy ......................................................................................... 55 1.24. Payfast .................................................................................................................... 56 1.25. CashU ..................................................................................................................... 56 iii Akeeba Subscriptions User's Guide 1.26. IFmb (IFthen) ........................................................................................................... 57 1.27. PayU ...................................................................................................................... 58 1.28. Beanstream .............................................................................................................. 59 1.29. Przelewy24 .............................................................................................................. 59 1.30. ClickAndBuy ........................................................................................................... 60 1.31. SCNet ..................................................................................................................... 61 1.32. ePay (Denmark) ........................................................................................................ 61 2. Integration with third party software ......................................................................................... 62 2.1. Community Builder integration ..................................................................................... 62 2.2. ccInvoices integration .................................................................................................. 63 2.3. DOCman Integration ................................................................................................... 64 2.4. JCE Integration .......................................................................................................... 65 2.5. JomSocial integration .................................................................................................. 66 2.6. Joomla! User Groups Integration ................................................................................... 67 2.7. K2 Integration ............................................................................................................ 67 2.8. Delete users on subscription expiration ..........................................................................