Need timebased articles (subscription)

While HS is pretty close to being able to do all i need it too, there is one thing missing from it that i kind of need like "yesterday" (as they say). I'm missing the following within hikashop.

I would need this exactly:

* The ability to add timebased articles (subscriptions) that can auto-expire (days, weeks, months, years that can be configured in duration. Eg 1day, 8d, 1wk, 1 month, 1year, 2 months, etc, you get the idea)
* The ability to move a user to a predefined grp after puchase (but i think that one is already possible)
* Integration with the users joomla profile. so when a user visits his or her profile, they can see somewhere (preferably at the top, somewhere close to the username), for how long their subscription is active and/or when it expires
* (optional)Integration perhaps with the joomla login module, in a way that after the user is logged in, below the name it sais something like "User status: Premium
subscription expires: <insert date here>
renew: <button to a page where the user can renew the subscription>

If this is too complicated for HS itself (but i hope not), then perhaps a plugin type "HikaSubscriptions" in a way like hikamarket is for hikashop.

Is it clear what i'm after?

Offcourse i can explain

you know that newspapers end up in your mailbox daily, or a new "fashion" magazine every 2 weeks without you having to go pick it up every 2 weeks. That's a subscription (or membership). You pay once and it lasts for a predefined duration. Like this extensions.joomla.org/extensions/e-comme...-subscriptions/20725 or www.opensource-excellence.com/shop/membership-subscription.html , DEMO: demos.opensource-excellence.com/ . See top menu item Subscriptions > Premium subscriptions. but then integrated into hikashop, that's what i'm after

* Time based articles (subscriptions) that can auto expire
-->Say a user purchases an article in my shop called "premium support for 1 year" on Dec 1st 2012. upon completing the purchase (payment has been set to completed on Dec 2nd 2012). The user is then a "premium member" on the site till Dec 1st 2013. The "premium support" purchase would then expire on Dec 2nd 2013, and no longer be valid for premium support. If the user would then click on ANY menu item that is assigned to the "premium member" category while his subscription(membership) has expire, the user would be taken to a page to renew first.

The reason i ask is because the services i (will) provide depend on the "support" level a customer has. Eg: standard user: email support only, premium user: website ticket support & phone support aswell as the normal email support. That is because certain links or options on my site will be limited to users who are in joomla's ACL in a "premium member" categorie.

* Integration with the users joomla profile
--> Say you create a menu item that opens the user's profile when clicked on. Well on that page, somewhere below the username (and/or real name) it would say in the above case untill when the premium support was valid.

eg:
---> A user called "John Doe" completes the purchase on Dec 2nd 2012 of a 1 year subscription (or membership) for premium support (and thus expiry date of Dec 1st 2013).
---> John Doe (with login username JohnD) clicks on the menu link "my profile" and is taken to his profile on the website
---> John Doe sees the following summary:

Username: JohnD
Real name: John Doe
Membership status: Premium
Subscription valid until: Dec 1st 2013

<insert the rest of joomla profile page here>

* integration with the joomla login module
---> This is pretty simple to explain. You know the module where you login on the site frontend with your username & password that greets you with "hello <insert full name>". Well below that it would list the userstatus"

eg as per above case

----> John Doe logs in on the website
----> The joomla login module would then display the following

Hello John Doe,
Userstatus: Premium
Valid until: Dec 1st, 2013

I hope this explains it more. Check the link above for perhaps an even better explanation of what i'm after

Yes i know it doesn't, which is why i was asking for one. Good to know it integrates with akeeba. Ill take a look at it. till then this is on hold.

Ok, checked it out. Can't seem to figure out how it works. akeebasubs (v2.4.4) has a lot of plugins, but none are related to hikashop, and ditto for hikashop plugins. I can't find one that integrates with akeebasubs. How exactly does it integrate. When i click on "new article" or something. I'd love it if hikashop would be able to do this on its own

Hi,

Here is the documentation about this integration:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...a-subscriptions.html

And here I opened a topic to discuss on Akeeba Subscriptions improvements on HikaShop:
HikaShop - HikaMarket & Akeeba subscriptions ...