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Hi all,
I'm in the process of planning a subscription site and want to be sure CMSMS is the right way to go. Basically I want:

- A front end site easily viewed by anyone for free. On that front end will be the opportunity to JOIN

- When the JOIN button is pressed, the customer will be brought to a processor interface (PayPal, CCBill, SegPay, etc - not sure which one I will be using yet)

- Once paid, they would be diverted to the MEMBERS side of the site

How can CMSMS allow me to easily do this? I don't want to deal with any members (thats what the processor will hopefully do).
How will I seperate the front end and members sections? Is it as easy as just duplicating pages in a /members folder that will be protected by the processor?
Thanks for any help...

I'm not sure exactly how you would integrate a payment system into registering members, but the rest is easy enough with CMSMS and some of its plugins.

The FrontEndUsers and SelfRegistration mods would allow the users to sign up.  I guess you'd have to modify the SelfRegistration mod to include the payment check.

Once a user is registered, you can use the CustomContent mod to personalize the site.

Basically you use CustomContent to check if a user is logged in, and then modify the content for that person.  You can use this to change the menus - one set of options shows up for logged in users, one set shows up for not logged in users. 

To protect the private pages, you'd just have to add a CustomContent tag in the template for those pages.  If the user is logged in, the page shows as normal.  Otherwise, it shows an error page (or a sign up page).

- Walkere

OK, thanks!