Changing default membership

The promotional membership type can be disabled. Just go to the Manage Membership levels section and uncheck Enable promotional membership at the top.

The non-member level is the level all guests are at when they first hit your site. So it is a needed level. Everyone is a guest before they become a member.

The standard membership level is required. Dolphin will not function if it is removed which is why the built in membership types cannot be removed.

The guest level you can just edit and disable everything. This would make your site useless for guests. But never the less, there are always guests, so setting a price on that level is kinda pointless as it is a needed level.

So currently the only one that is really a problem is the standard level which i also do not see a way of setting a price on.

@deano92964

Thank you for your reply. I have figured out to disable the promotion and remove all rights from both Guest and Standard level and then ask my user to choose from one of my levels. It works but it doesn't give the best user experience.

I understand that there must be a standard level by default, I just don't understand why it can't be priced.

Again thank you very much

Finn

There are a couple of 'work arounds' for this if your goal is to make it so that only paying members can use your site.

You can use something like martinboi's subscription mod which allows very good controls on what different membership levels can do. You can set different prices on this and it takes recurring payments which the standard dolphin membership module does not.

the other mod that is good for this is the 'page access control'

http://www.boonex.com/unity/extensions/entry/Page_Access_Control

This allows you to set each page so that only your chosen membership levels can view the page.

You can then set up a paid membership level 'PAID', then set each page using PAC so that only those with 'PAID' membership can access.

If another user clicks on the page, they will get the forbidden screen which you can edit to link to the membership payment page.

You can also goto the navigation menu in admin/builders and set each tab so that only members can see them at all.

Although you want people who stumble across your site to have some content otherwise you will lose signups....

I'm trying to do the same thing - either set one of my other membership types that I've created as the default membership or even change the name "Standard" to a different name and require payment for the default membership as well.

After searching all day for ways to make this happen without getting yet another additional module to do what is supposedly part of boonex dolphin (see below for what is supposedly part of Dolphin**), I'd even just be happy with being able to change the name of the Standard membership. Seems like I read somewhere that  I can change that name in the database - but I can't tell if that will mess up anything else attached to the memberships (and almost everything is attached to the memberships!). If I simply change the name "Standard" to "New Name" in the database, will everything on my site still work - and will it still work for those members AND in general?

Also, how do I access the level of control over membership access described below, "Set different access levels to all parts of your community site, including specific pages and even page blocks." All I've found are the Membership levels under settings - which doesn't include specific pages OR page blocks. I could probably configure my memberships w/ just that ability!

**reference from Dolphin's main page:

Membership and access levels.

Has this been answered anywhere?

I'm sure the answer is either

1. 7.1
2. 8

It always is.

You can add a price to Standard membership.  Here's how

Open Phpmyadmin from Cpanel

Go to your Dolphin DB and click on sys_acl_levels

Click on Edit for Standard membership

Change "Purchasable" from No to Yes, then Save

Go to Admin>Settings>Membership Levels.  You will now see "Pricing" next to "Standard"

Click on that and set your Days and Price info.

Enjoy your new paying Standard membership!

(BTW, I would NOT recommend changing the name of Standard membership, even though you can do that from sys_acl_levels.  I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are places in the code where that name has been set since it is the default membership.  In other words, try changing it at your own risk.)

Thanks for this info :-) But this will not enable them to select the different types of membership from the join page and that is what I am searching for. I have 11 different types of membership levels because there are 11 different types of groups that are joining my site. 3 of the groups are free and the other 8 have a different price. I would like for them to choose one from the start as they are having trouble finding once they become standard members.

Hi there,

so, again, maybe you need to take a second look at the mod suggested before, AntonLV's Page Access Control...

With that mod, you can "design" different pages for your members, so, in this case, each of the standar memberships will ve able to see only the available upgrading options for their specific group. In fact, for each membership you can leave visible only the next upgrading option with this mod.

Regards

 I just tried this and it didn't work. I cleared cache etc and I don't get the pricing link. Is there something I'm missing?

 Hi everyone,

I also tried it and it also did NOT work for me.
Are there any other steps, or other things, that I need to know to make these steps work?

thanks