Membership

Overview

Memberships in Extension are required to set user group level based on the monthly/Yearly pay plan the user selects. Using membership plans, you can decide how much to charge a user and how many listings a user can make for a particular membership plan.

Membership are well integrated with Joomla groups and have a dependency on each other. Ensure that you have created Joomla groups before creating membership plans. By doing this, you can select groups when creating membership.

Create a new Membership Plan

Click Components > Extension > Membership Plans > New to create a new membership plan as shown in the following image:

Screen 1: Create new membership plan

First membership plan should be a Free (basic plan). When user logs into the Front Admin, he will be assigned to that plan. From that point, User can upgrade his membership to paid plans.

Edit Membership Plan

If you want to edit existing entries, you can either click the entry from the Membership screen or select the check box next to the entry, and then click Edit.

The following image shows the Edit Plan screen.

Screen 2: Edit Plan screen

The following table explains the different options seen.

Name	Provide a name for the membership plan.
Number of Listings	Provide the number of listings the users in the plan can create.
Group ID	Select the Joomla user group ID for the plan. It is recommended that you create your membership under the Registered group.
Number of Images	Provide the number of images the users in the plan can add.
Price Monthly	Provide the monthly charge for the plan.
Price Annually	Provide the annual charge for the plan.
Best Value	Best value badge, that shows in Front Admin (informative)
No of Premium Listings	Provide the number of premium listings the users in the plan can create.
Attachments	Enable to allow users to add attachments to listings.
Video	Enable to allow users to add Video link to the listings.
Custom Fields	Enable custom fields for particular plan. Custom field needs to be assign into Paid Groups to be shown here.
ID	This field is auto generated.