Subscription & Course Options

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Hello,

I am creating a website for a client who wants to have several courses listed but would like different subscriptions that allows the user to select only a certain amount of courses. For example the different subscriptions are

* Subscription One: 1 course : $59.95
* Subscription Two: 2 courses: $99.95
* Subscription Three: 3 courses: $129.95
* Subscription Fours: All available courses: $149.95

When a user selects subscription two or subscription three they should be able to select the courses of of their choosing from the list of all the available courses but only 2 or 3 of them depending on which subscription they choose.

I have been trying to figure it out in the admin subscription area but if I put all the courses to be available I cannot find the option to limit the number of courses they can choose.
Is it possible to do something like that with the subscriptions?

Thanks for the help.
Dre'

[andreas]

this is not possible.

From what I understand you would have to create several subscription packages.


1) course A
2) course B
3) course C
4) course D

4) courses AB
5) courses AC
6) courses AD
7) courses BC
8) courses BD
9) courses CD
etc.

Now this is awkward, if indeed you WANT all possible combinations. In most practical instances this will not be the case, as most likely some course combination may not make sense. In terms of marketing it may be much better anyway to "preselect" the combinations, rather than offering too much choice.

Last, but not least, there is another workaround to lower prices for multiple courses subscribed to: You can have a fixed membership fee (either registration fee, or a monthly fee), motivating customers to subscribe to several courses, to save money:

Registration fee for one year: 50.00 $

Fee per course: 29.95 $

= one course 79.95$
two courses 109,90$

etc.

To accomplish such a solution, you would need CB Subscription, or Opensource-Exellence's Membership, or Joomplace's Subsription or something similar.

[cascading.media]

It isn't possible unless I go through expensive customization.

Your idea about having different memberships might be an alternative solution. I am using the standard version and it says under CB integration that it isn't installed. Is it something not available with the standard version or did it just not install properly? If I install that portion will that allow me to to do the CB Subscription you mentioned?

Thanks for the help!
Dre'

[den]

CommunityBuilder (CB) is profiles/users management extension for Joomla, you can find it at www.joomlapolis.com
CB handles registrations on the site and using third party 'paid membership' plugins for CB you can change your free site registration process to the paid one.
So, you will have 2 levels/stages of subscription: 1) paid registration on the site; 2) subscription to JoomlaLMS courses.

[cascading.media]

Ok. So installed the CB Subs properly but now I do not know how to have integrate with the courses? How do I have the CB Subs replace the subscription function in the LMS? I tried to create the plans in CB Subs but there isn't an option to integrate with the courses or the LMS at all. Please let me know how I can make this work for my client. I am under a tight deadline and need any help asap.

Thanks,
Dre'

[Su_]

As we mentioned previously, CB subs allow you to create separate 'subscriptions level' and after its installation you will have 2 subscription levels: subscriptions to site (paid site registration by CB subs) and separate subscriptions to courses (JoomlaLMS subscriptions). Ther is no integration between CB subs and JoomlaLMS, it just allows you to have another 'subscription level'.
So using CB subs you can create paid registrations to the site for different periods of time and using JoomlalMS -> paid subscriptions to courses.

[vinie]

Hi this is off topic but i dont know where to post this. by the way, how can i change the multiple selection of subscriptions list to single subscription? I tried changing this line <input type="checkbox" name="jlms_sub[]" value="<?php echo $subscription->id;?>" <?php echo $checked;?> /> to <input type="radio" name="jlms_sub[]" value="<?php echo $subscription->id;?>" <?php echo $checked;?> /> but still if you want to go back to subscription page ang change to another option the data will append to the $subscription array in the checkout page. can you please help me. thanks

[Helga_13]

Unfortunately, these changes require php source code modifications, but this part of LMS (file joomla_lms.cart.php) is encoded in both STD and trial version. If you have PRO version - please submit a ticket with your request to our helpdesk and we will try to help.