Exclusive Paying Membership Site

How can I setup a Dolphin site to be exclusive for paying members?

Hi bresolut:

About the payment options you need, let me tell you something:

In Dolphin, you can define level of memberships and assign them
certain features:

For example, we have Bronze, Plate, and Gold membership levels, and
each of them can access certain features of the site that you can
define for them and each with a different price.

I dont know if this is exactly what you want but that would make your
site accesed by different membership with access to different features and
they must pay for that.

Hope it helps.
Papik

In your cpanel, go to phpmyadmin > your Dolphin database.

Go to sys_acl_levels

Click on the Edit tab for Standard Membership

Change Purchasable from No to Yes and save

Login to the Admin section of your site.  Go to Settings > Membership Levels.

You should now see Pricing next to Standard in the Levels.  Click on it and enter Pricing info.

Disable Promotional Membership in Manage Membership Levels Settings.  Remove all actions from Non-member level.

Now you should only have one active membership, which requires payment.  If you want additional paying Membership levels, create them.

>>>I have not tried this with only paying memberships so I don't know what will happen when someone tries to join once these settings are in place.  Ideally they should be directed to your payment module or sent some notification that payment is required.  If not, enable your Promotional membership but set it for 1 day.  Then, once a member joins they have 1 day to upgrade to a paying membership.  This may be the only way to do mandatory payments with the default Dolphin program.

If this works please post it here for other Dolphin owners who may want this.

At the moment, the payment option in Dolphin is not setup for recurring payment for some reason. this means, you can set it up so that members have to pay to access content that you allow them to in members action. But, after one month, they will not pay again.

Depends if you want a one off payment or recurring...

If you want regular monthly payments, then get the mod by martinboi - recurring subscription payments.

Its excellent. Gives complete control over how much, how often and what members can view. You can set up as many different user levels as you want with different access.

The module is on the higher priced end of the market scale but I made my money back on it within a week.

If you have a niche market and members, get this mod!