Subscription Access, Fee-based Sites & Content

[author20]

Payment for Access to Content and Fee-based Membership

If anybody is interested in charging for time and session-based billing, I know somebody who is finishing code that allows osCommerce to support subscription-based, or fee-based services:

1. Online service provider (ISPs, ASPs, Management, etc.)
2. Fee-based newspaper or newsletter
3. Fee-based photograph or graphic site (stock, clip-art, entertainment)
4. Fee-based Audio Content
5. Fee-based Video Content
6. Software programmer (time or project billing)
7. Graphics download
8. Photographic stock download
9. Access to an application
10. Access to maps
11. License sales for intellectual and digital property
12. Dating service
13. consulting service
14. software programmer
15. Subscriber-based online entertainment
16. Live Webinars (seminars)
17. Pre-recorded online training
18. Live online training
19. Event broadcasting
20. Fee-based e-mail alert service (stocks, security system, etc.)
21. Private membership club (cars, stamps, antiques, collectors)
22. Modeling or talent agent
23. Online radio station

It has security to make sure passwords are not compromised (which protects streaming media sites and other content sales sites, from content theft) It also has the ability to sell by 1 or more sessions, or 1 or more hour, day, week, month or year.

If somebody is interested in helping me with the development costs (which are modest, and the program can be demonstrated soon), let me know and we can both use the finished software. E mail me at author20 at hotmail dot com (please substitute the correct at symbol and dot).

[author20]

Pardon -- had a few redundant items in my list, but you get the point? I will send specs to who ever is interested.

[hifix]

I was looking out for a similar module for osc myself. When do you think the module will be completed and available for use?

[Working-Overtime]

I too am highly interested as I have a client that wants to sell monthly memberships to admit full access to all of his streaming videos.

I can't figure out how to set Osc to do it without majorly hacking up the code (and I still haven't been able to figure it out). I want paid members to have full-access to the downloads area without having to go thru checkout.

[Working-Overtime]

I just submitted my first Contribution to the OsCommerce board regarding this topic. For the last two weeks I had been scouring the boards trying to find clues, picking up pieces here and there.

I took a break last night and today, it came to me a way to set up my site as to bypass the shopping cart (and delete any "Add To Cart" links from products info) and cause a visitor to be redirected to the LOGIN / Creat An Account page.

The, upon creating an account and clicking continue, they are taken straight to PayPal (completeing transaction) and automatically returned to "Account Success" page.

I put it in the form a contribution and am attaching it to this post.

It was actually a simple and easy mod but it has its inherent insecurities. If the client doesn't complete the transaction, they will still have access because their Username & Password are written to the database whilst being sent to PayPal. belive there is a way to force a membership to be authorized before activation, but I can't remember right now. I'll keep my eye on any replies.

But in a generic form, it does work, but needs fine-tuning. If someone cares to pick up the pieces and polish it, I would appreciate it.......

[cvc505]

I am looking for a mod that would allow mw to creat an on-line dating system. This would allow someone to register and see other information but until they subscribed they could not contact anyone else on the list. anyone seem such a mod?

[tdawg]

Originally Posted by Working-Overtime

I just submitted my first Contribution to the OsCommerce board regarding this topic. For the last two weeks I had been scouring the boards trying to find clues, picking up pieces here and there.

I took a break last night and today, it came to me a way to set up my site as to bypass the shopping cart (and delete any "Add To Cart" links from products info) and cause a visitor to be redirected to the LOGIN / Creat An Account page.

The, upon creating an account and clicking continue, they are taken straight to PayPal (completeing transaction) and automatically returned to "Account Success" page.

I put it in the form a contribution and am attaching it to this post.

It was actually a simple and easy mod but it has its inherent insecurities. If the client doesn't complete the transaction, they will still have access because their Username & Password are written to the database whilst being sent to PayPal. belive there is a way to force a membership to be authorized before activation, but I can't remember right now. I'll keep my eye on any replies.

But in a generic form, it does work, but needs fine-tuning. If someone cares to pick up the pieces and polish it, I would appreciate it.......

This is an interesting mod. Very useful.

I am curious about 2 things:
1) Do you have a hint on how to use this with other payment methods?
2) Your document seems to apply to a previous version, are there some hints on where to look for the version 2.0?