3rd party membership plugin?

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8/24/2011 12:06:30 PM
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3rd party membership plugin?

Hi,

I am new to mojoportal and have been using it for a few months. I have setup two sites and everything is going great. Excellent product!

I had a customer yesterday who wants to charge monthly for their site memberships. I see on the roadmap that feature is coming, but in the mean time does anyone know if there is a third party plugin that can handle a monthly subscription system that automatically charges credit cards and has opt-out functionality?

I have done some google searching and didn't find anything, but I figured I would check here before committing to writing a plugin that was already available. If there isn't anything out there I guess I will be writing my first mojoportal plugin!

Thanks for any help!

8/24/2011 1:34:35 PM
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I don't know of any 3rd party solutions for that, but maybe others in the community have implemented something similar as custom development.

I can say that when I build my add on product it isn't going to involve any automatic charging of credit cards because in my opinion it is far too risky to persist customer credit card information in the database. The big boys like Amazon can do that because they have teams of security engineers to manage the security of their infrastructure and teams of lawyers to defend them in the case of liability. But I think most businesses should not do that for their customer's best interest and for their own potential liability if the data was breached or leaked.

The way I would do it is to automatically send an email invoice with a link where the customer can pay the renewal with probably a few reminders before their access is removed if they don't pay. 

Best,

Joe

8/24/2011 5:52:26 PM
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Thanks for the reply Joe. Oddly enough my customer is a team of lawyers!

David

8/29/2011 3:44:27 AM
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Joe,

I am looking forward to the membership add-on when it becomes available.  I'm all for not having to deal with the PA-DSS compliance; a possible alternative solution would be to enable the cart to leverage PayPal subscription payments.

10/3/2011 6:27:19 PM
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I know this is late coming to this topic but I was working on a subscription module last year. It utilized off site payment gateways to reduce small business owner's PCI compliance issues.  After my research into PCI, I can only recommend wholeheartedly that all handling of credit card data be done through a payment gateway's webpage.  If the credit card number travels through your code the code has to be compliant. Compliance is a complex issue.  When a site outsources credit card handling, compliance becomes manageable.

My previous project was cut short by the client. I haven't looked at the code in a year. I do know that the payment gateway would need to be changed because it is not a recognized company and does not include services like Paypal.

Thanks

Desirea

10/3/2011 6:36:18 PM
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Desirea,

I fully agree about using a 3rd-party gateway if at all possible; most of the better services can make the experience nearly seamless, with a bit of configuring. I've used a variety so far, and they all have something to be said for their use. 

 

10/3/2011 7:08:48 PM
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I actually have VS 2010 currently converting my project code. The payment gateway was ElementPS. They used a token exchange to represent the credit card data in their database. I'm going to look at the code again. There will have to be some radical changes to update what it does because the client had some very convoluted sponsorship/membership/affiliate things being written into it. 

 

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