marktowers

Great! Thanks Stiofan.

Yep, I think they may have been imported via CSV. 🙂

Hi Paolo.

Ok. I want to change one of my packages so I can offer a trial period. The existing listings on that package are not on recurring payments, so my query relates to those listings at renewal.

As far as I can see it looks like when these customers will renew their listing the message on the Listing Preview page and the Checkout page will say they have a free trial. So, the questions are:-
B) Should they be seeing a message that refers to trials when renewing an existing listing, or can GeoDirectory identify that it’s a renewal and therefore display a the message without the trial wording?
A) Would they actually get the free trial?

Hope this makes more sense. 🙂

Also, I’ve always been a bit hesitant about using recurring payments but really want to offer free trials. I think we’re best to inform customers about recurring payments; Is there a “best practice” from GeoDirectory users about how to inform users about recurring payments?

Thx.

Thanks Guust,

I should’ve checked there, but they were previously all ticked yes (and I hadn’t changed them) as I got an admin copy of a expiry reminder only a few days before I changed pre expiry notice days. I keep tabs on upcoming renewals so will check admin notifications if this happens again.

Cheers,
Mark

Cheers.

Presumably this will be in next release?

Thx,
Mark

Good news. finally managed to get the switchover sorted.

Bit more complicated than a GT to GD conversion as I had to build a separate GD site due to issues with early version of conversion tool.

Simply pointing the live url to where the new site’s files were hosted seemed the right thing to do, however, this didn’t work as it caused a few things in the options to be wiped and efforts to fix this were futile.

I managed to get round this by creating a copy of the new DB, pointing my development site at the copy by changing the config file to point to the copy DB. Then used “Better-Search-Replace” to change the URLs. Once this was done I could then go and change the live site to point at where the new site was hosted. Needed to then go in to DB and change the site URL reference (B-S-R didn’t do this.) Even after that there was a bit of tidy up required (used the B-S-R plugin again as it missed a few entries first time round.)

So, just checking the site over but looks like after 6 months I’ve finally managed to switch-over from GT to GD!

1) Awesome and 2) Awesome! Thanks Paolo 🙂

Hi Giri.

Thanks for this.

I was looking to have a different message for when a trial period is offered. I was also considering having different messages for when coupons are used, and possibly when a trial period AND coupon are used.

I’m not sure having an additional message works for me because I think the standard message is confusing when trial periods are used.

For example, the message below is the message a user would see for a listing that has a 6 month free trial on a 12 month package that costs £16per year:-
“This is a preview of your listing and it’s not published yet. If there is something wrong then “Go Back and Edit” or if you want to add listing then click on “Confirm & Checkout”.
You are going to pay £16.00 ( per year ) & your listing will be alive days for 180 days on the Standard Place Listing package.”
It reads as though they would pay the full price for only 16 months.

Stiofan suggested we could replace the geodir_publish_payment_listing_form_before_msg() function, which would allow me to then have different messages for trial periods etc.

The code below was what I was going to add (around line 290 on geodir_payment_actions.php) to the geodir_publish_payment_listing_form_before_msg() function. However, as I’m not too hot on coding I wasn’t too sure how to do add this in my child themes’ function.php file.

		} elseif ($req_package_id > 0 && $payable_amount > 0  && $sub_num_trial_days_var > 1 && !$pid > 0) { // paid new trial
		$preview_message = wp_sprintf(__('This is a preview of your listing and it's not published yet. <br />If there is something wrong then "Go Back and Edit" or if you want to add listing then click on "Confirm Preview & Go to Checkout".<br> Your listing is on a free trial for <b>%s</b> days. After the trail you are going to pay <b>%s</b>. The selected package is:<b>%s</b>.', 'geodir_payments'), $alive_days , $payable_amount_display , $type_title);
		$preview_button_label = __('Confirm Preview & Go to Checkout', 'geodir_payments');

Hope this makes sense 🙂