Add user to specific usergroup after purchase?

Hello! I restrict certain aresas (video categories) of my site to users of specific groups. Namely those who pay for access to certain categories are added to that usergroup.

Is it possible to have someone buy a product in HikaShop and upon successful payment they are automatically added to that usergroup?

Thanks!

I have to do something really similar.

We sell subscriptions and normal products.
The customers can buy the products with very good prices but to do that they need to have a valid subscription.

So I can use the same method, when a customer buy a subscription, we can add a user to a specific "User group after purchase" and allow him to buy the normal product.

Considering the subscription is valid only for a specific period (one month, 6 month or one year), is there a way to automatically delete the user from the "User group after purchase" when the subscription is no more valid?
Or do I have to do it manually?

(At the moment I am using the Starter version 1.5.8 and i cannot verify it, I will probably buy the business version shortly because the product and the assistance is very good )

I downloaded and tested the akeeba subscrition and the plug in, and as usual you suggestion is great!

I think there is a little error on the plug in.
It seems akkeba doesn't see the shipping fee

The order is 43.90 € (19.90 € for subscription and 24 € for shipping fee) and the amount on akeeba is only 19.90 €.

is it correct? or does the plug-in do it intentionally?

I have also another question, with the hikashop business edition I can add an user to a specific "User group after purchase" when they buy a subscription product.
Then I can allow the users to buy specific products only if they bought the subscription.

How could I automatically unsubscribe the user at the end of the subscription period?
Could akeeba subscritpion component do it?

Thank as usual for your great help.

First of all thanks of your answer , I understand your concern about the shipping fee, the reason of my question is because my case is a little bit different.

I sell subscriptions, these subscriptions include 2 bottles (product A and B ) for each month.
The subscriptions includes the shipping fee because the costs depend where and how we have to deliver the products.

In addition, for the customers who have a valid subscription, we sell the same products with a very low price but with a higher quantity (for example if you like the bottle A you received with the subscription, you can buy it with at least 6 bottles).

For this reason we have 2 needs:
1) we have to allow users to buy the normal products only if they have a valid subscription (I can do that with the "user group after purchase")
2) at the end of the subscription (generally 1 or 6 or 12 months) we have to unsubscribe the users so they cannot buy anymore the normal products until they buy another subscrition.

If I am not wrong you say that i can use the akeeba subscriptions to meet both the two needs.

Am I correct?
Do you have any suggestion for the shipping fee of the subscrition?

Dear Nicolas, finally I bought the business version.

In order to deny some products to some customer I used the access level (and akeeba subscriptions).
It works but this is not what I need.

In this way the customer cannot see the products. In my case I would like to show them the products but deny them the possibility to purchase them.
Instead of the "Add to Cart" button I would like to have a button to send them to the subscription page.

Is it possible?

Thank you Nicolas

this already is a good solution.

Anyway considering that the price is a really good price and is valid only for the subscriber (we hope to gain more subscribers with this startegy), the best solution for us is:
- show anyway the price
- deny the add to cart button for the customer wihout a valid subscription
- instead of the add to cart button show a button with "Subscribe" linked to the "subscribe" page.

Do you think is possibile with a small costomization?
I also think this could be a great opportunity for all the person that propose subscriptions and should be a good idea to have this functionality in the standard version of hika, what do you think?

Hello Nicolas

I have some problem to do that.

I modifyed the code as you told me but it doesn't work fine.

<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$userGroups = JAccess::getGroupsByUser($user->id, true);
if(in_array(9,$userGroups)) continue;
/**
* @package HikaShop for Joomla!
* @version 1.5.8
* @author hikashop.com
* @copyright (C) 2010-2012 HIKARI SOFTWARE. All rights reserved.
* @license GNU/GPLv3 www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
*/
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
?>
<?php
if(!empty($this->row->has_options)){
echo $this->cart->displayButton(JText::_('CHOOSE_OPTIONS'),'choose_options',$this->params,hikashop_completeLink('product&task=show&product_id='.$this->row->product_id.$this->itemid),'window.location = \''.str_replace("'","\'",hikashop_completeLink('product&task=show&product_id='.$this->row->product_id.$this->itemid)).'\';return false;','');
}else{
$url = '';
if(empty($this->ajax)){
$this->ajax = 'return hikashopModifyQuantity(\''.$this->row->product_id.'\',field,1,0);';
}
if($this->row->product_sale_start || empty($this->element->main)){
$start_date = $this->row->product_sale_start;


Here you see the result on the frontend (see the attachment).

It lose all the styles and there is only one product instead of 3.

Did I something wrong?

Could you also indicate me the code I have to insert to show a button to direct the user to a specific link " www.madeinvino.com/index.php/abbonati "?

Thank you very much!

the error is:

Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /home/madeinvi/public_html/templates/madeinvino/html/com_hikashop/product/quantity.php on line 4

Great nicolas, it works!!!

regarding the button to direct the user to the subscription page.
I would like to show a button with a fix label (fro example "Subscribe") linked to a Joomla Menù (the subscription page).

this is the syntax I use i the joomla articles

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><a class="art-button" href="index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=112">Abbonati subito!</a></span>
</p>

Do you think is possible?

it works!!!!!

i'm becoming a PHP expert..... i'm joking i am really far from that... (

I added the code in the "quantity" file of the "product"

$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$userGroups = JAccess::getGroupsByUser($user->id, true);
if (!in_array(9,$userGroups)) {
?>
<p> <span style="font-size: 8pt;"><a class="art-button" href="index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=112">Solo per Abbonati</a></span> </p>
<?php
return;
}

Thank you nicolas, without your help it was impossible to find the solution.
I am really very happy of my choice (Hikashop Business)!