Integrate Hikashop with subscriptions

Hi nicolas,
as always really many thanks for support, then:

Partners - many thanks for the link, if nobody will help us here, before to contact HS partners, we will contact the developer helped us in past. We would like to be helped on:
- help and share with us testing before / after
- keep free the plugin, in other case we will see (depending on costs)...

Akeeba Subscription - Thank you, the last install package we downloaded is the 5.0.4 on 23 january 2016 (after the 3.3.4 release the package "core" has been erased and the "Pro" renamed into a unique simply "Akeeba Subscription"). Unfortunately we didn't knew before that from march 2016 the package would be removed from the download section.

Having zero experience on it, for us the most difficult is to have the last Akeeba Subscriptions install package (PHP 7) generating it out of the github repository. Can anyone help us on that ?

Nicolas - I'm confused. Is Hikashop planning do add something related to subscriptions to the HS package (or as an additional add-on/package)?

Joomleb - I'm glad you're willing to keep development going with the AkeebaSubs integration; however, for larger commercial sites, using an extension that is no longer receiving any support (like AkeebaSubs) is not a viable option. It's almost worse than just going with a custom coded solution - because you don't get support AND you know know where Nicolas is going to take it next. He could just ditch it and switch to some other system and kill AkeebaSubs completely.

Nicolas - if we could develop a VERY BASIC subscription component that works specifically with HikaShop (And AcyMailing for all email notifications) would you be interested in us donating it back to the HS project for the long-term maintenance? (I'm not asking for a commitment, just wondering if you'd be interested in taking a look at it when/if we get it done).

Hi guys,
nobody answered to us, so:

A - @Hika Team: Do you have any news about "Hika Subscription" feature ?
B - So, in case there is no news and we'll have to update the second Akeeba Subscriptions plugin we repeat the two + 1 questions:
1 - Do anyone can help us on have the last 5.2.x updated Akeeba Subscription installable ZIP packages ?
2 - Do anyone can help us on making the corrections / upgrade to our second Akeeba Subscriptions plugin ?
3 - @Hika Team: Please, Do you have any special instructions / suggestions to have it working with HikaShop 3.x ?

Many Thanks to all for help on having a free, valid, full integrated HikaShop Subscription feature... waiting the Hika Team solution

Hi Nicolas,
really many thanks for suggestion, I'll keep you updated on the plugin upgrading...

HikaShop 3.0 Alpha is been released on 13 october 2016
Do you have a release date of next (beta I suppouse) release to be able to do the plugin tests ?

Any further word or details on this Subscriptions implementation yet? I'm working on my own strategy for an "X of the month" process using existing Hika features and a custom plugin, but this sounds like it could be a viable replacement.

Thanks.

Hi icomex,
as you can read here we are working on plugin upgrade, if you want contribute with a donation and/or with point 1, Please, let me know...

Many Thanks !

Joomleb,

Basically, I have just two products. A Children and No Children program product. Depending on which one they have purchased, they gain access to specific pages on the website. This is working fine with the only issue is the removal of the customer from a group after a certain # of days. We do not need the Akeeba Subscriptions to do any authorization as that is already handled via the HikaShop product checkout. After 60 days, we simply want the customer removed from that group. Nothing more. Nothing less.

I'm following the documentation at https://github.com/akeeba/akeebasubs/releaseshttp://www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/109-akeeba-subscriptions.html .

I've downloaded and installed the pkg_akeebasubs-5.2.2 via Github at https://github.com/akeeba/akeebasubs/releaseshttps://github.com/akeeba/akeebasubs/releases

I've downloaded and installed the akeebas.zip from https://github.com/akeeba/akeebasubs/releaseshttps://github.com/akeeba/akeebasubs/releases .

• I've enabled the Hikashop Akeeba Subscription Plugin Integration plug-in.
• I've enabled the Akeeba Subscriptions - Administrator Emails plug-in.
• I've enabled the Akeeba Subscription Payment - PayPal plug-in. (probably not necessary as the shopping cart is already setup and working with the Authorize.net plugin and there will be no need for recurring subscriptions/payments.).
• I've enabled the Content - Akeeba Subscriptions Timed Release plug-in.
• I've added two Subscription Levels Groups - Children and No Children
• I've added two Subscription Levels - Children (linked to Children Level Group) and No Children (linked to No Children Level Group). FYI, these are the same User Access Level Groups which have been set for each one.

Nicolas,

Good to hear you are bringing it back.

This has worked very well. I set the subscription level to one day, ordered the linked product and checked out. It added the client to the group upon order confirmation. When the one day expired, it removed the client from the group. Viola!

I'm glad I saw that link to the Subscriptions page.

nicolas wrote: PS: On a side note, you'll be happy to hear that, with HikaShop 3 being now completely stable, the development of HikaSubscription has started on our end. We hope to have something ready in a few months.

Hi,
I'd upgrade as soon as this feature is available.

Hi Jerome,
many thanks for your info and explanation, I understand you. Anyway what I mean was know how we'll can see (use, try) something, the first step, the very basic one as suggested from cpaschen:

cpaschen wrote: I ...The thing that is not available in the market now is the VERY basic - add to a user group (which HS does) and then remove from the user group after x days. You don't need to worry about notifying the users because you can do that with Acymailing (and possibly with other mailers). And for several enterprise markets (some of which my clients are in) they don't (or can't) use auto bill...

Jerome,

I would recommend (or request) that the option be provided to remove an individual from a User Group when a subscription expires. That may already be in the works but just wanted to pass it along.

What would also be very cool would be if adding/removing people from a group would be extended to for e.g. Easy Social Groups. I have no idea if the same logic would apply to Community Builder and or Jomsocial. Just saying.