XF 2.0 Giving New Members Trial Usergroup Membership

[Peter Cox]

It would be nice to be able to give new members trial access to some of the paid areas in the forum – say for the first seven days, after which they would be automatically removed from the usergroup. If they like it, they can subscribe to a paid membership plan.

Is there any easy way to remove a secondary usergroup after x days?

Thanks!

 

[Paul B]

The user group promotion system will handle that - demotions are automatic if a promotion no longer applies.

You can use the 'User has been registered for at least X days' criterion to promote to a user group which removes access to forums using never for the permission to view, or use the 'User is NOT a member of any of the selected user groups' criterion to remove the original group which grants access.

It depends how you set up the initial access.

 

[Peter Cox]

Thanks, Brogan, this is helpful.

You can use the 'User has been registered for at least X days' criterion to promote to a user group which removes access to forums using never for the permission to view, or use the 'User is NOT a member of any of the selected user groups' criterion to remove the original group which grants access.

OK, but if we subsequently want them to have access again – which we do if they pay to upgrade – then this is still going to block them, right? Let me try to visualize…

1) New member automatically goes into “Trial” user-group, grants forum access.

2) After 7 days, promoted to “Trial Remove” group, marks forum access “Never”.

3) User pays for upgrade to “Full Access” group, but this is still blocked by “Trial Remove” group.

Ideally, I could simply use a promotion to “Apply this promotion while...” user has been a member for < 7 days, but there’s not option for that.

Am I missing something?

 

[Paul B]

You set the Trial Remove user group to only apply if not a member of the Full Access user group.

 

[Peter Cox]

Nice logic. Thanks.

 

[limboclub]

Are you then left with three user groups?
Trial Access (at 0 days registered, if not in Paid Access)
Trial Access Remove (at 7 days registered, if not in Paid Access)
Paid Access

For a big site with 100k+ users and 40+ existing groups is this not bloating the permissions table(s) when a simple "If registered for LESS than x days" option would do the job much more efficiently?

 

[Peter Cox]

Yes, no denying, it’s a workaround.

“Apply this promotion while...” is good conditionality, since it also removes the upgrade when the conditions are not met. However, we do appear to be missing a “User has been registered for no more than X days” option, frustratingly.