By harryb01 on

I've been impressed with what I've seen of Drupal so far but can it do the following:

I need to have 3 levels of access to the site based on membership groups
I need Drupal to handle the subscription payments
Will the subscription payments update the user access level based on what has been paid for

Thanks

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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zilla commented

you just need to browse the modules section - first topic is 'user types' - you're going to need to create 3 user types for your 3 levels of access (or maybe 4 if you count 'anonymous site visitor' - as for payment processing, look at ecommerce modules...as for pyament upgrade a user, look at role related modules that allow for users to change roles based on an action (you can create a trigger that says if a user has submitted payment, role promote moves user to new category of user type with new permissions)...many sites are doing what you are doing, so you should really spend some time digging through modules..

do note: many of hte modules you'll need for this (ecommerce related) are not yet ready for drupal6, so if you need to built *today* you may want to look only at d5.7 and then upgrade later on...

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harryb01 commented

Brilliant news. Thanks.

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zilla commented

there's also a membership module that provides easy 'time limited membership' controls - haven't used it myself, but it sounds useful if people are paying for X months versus 'permanent access'