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Which is best for selling a service, an ecommerce or a membership module?

April 18, 2012 9:58am

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  • #1 / Apr 18, 2012 9:58am

    ip

    80 posts

    I’m building a site that sells a service; the user picks their location, music, and some other related options and then saves their selection, or pays. There are no tangible products, or downloads, just a pdf of their selections will be provided, and possibly a log in so they can view their selection online.

    Users can choose to pay in 12 monthly payments or a one off payment, the payment gateway cannot be restricted to paypal.

    The ecommerce modules seem to offer far more than I require for this, I don’t need shipping options, or product details to be dealt with for instance. There are only 2 prices and these are dependent on postcode, so I also need to be able to feed in whether the service will take place within or outside a set of postcodes (I can do this by querying a custom table and return a simple true or false, but I need the ability to base pricing on the answer).

    Perhaps a membership module is more appropriate, alternatively is there an ecommerce module that isn’t so bloated for my needs?

    Advice very much appreciated.

    Thanks in advance.

  • #2 / Apr 26, 2012 7:58pm

    Rob Allen

    3114 posts

    The http://www.membrr.com module is a memnbership module but may work here, as you can set it up to do repeat billing for x amount of time (at the end the billing cycle stops), plus it offers a number of payment gateways including Sagepay.

    You can also use Membrr to create a member account during signup, and during the signup process you should be able to use custom member fields to control the users “selections”. After signup when the member logs in you can use the custom member fields to control what downloads are offered.

  • #3 / Apr 30, 2012 4:22am

    ip

    80 posts

    Hi bluedreamer, many thanks for replying.

    I think you’re right, membrr seems to be the best option, I may have been mistaken when I originally believed that taking subscriptions would only require a simple module.

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