Buy Custom Capability (ccap) before Registration

Hi Guys, any support or ideas you can offer is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for any replies!

So this is what I’m doing, and what I’d like to do:

I run a Magazine and each month we release a new Issue, each Issue is released in Digital and in Print.

Subscriptions with s2member are great, but I had to come up with a way for members to buy individual issues, as opposed to merely subscribing to everything.

To do this I used Custom Capabilities (ccap)
That way after a user has purchased a specific issue for $5.99, they can return to my site, log-in, and see the unlocked issue active in their account, at any time.

For example a user can purchase Issue #5, and Issue #7 – and any time they log in they will only see Issues #5 and #7.

It is very similar to the Apple App Store, users make individual purchases, and once made that purchase lives in their account.

Having a place to store users purchases is important because often users are on different devices, and they need a way to pull the magazine up from anywhere.

So CCaps are working at the moment,
however here is my problem:

There are too many steps to purchase.

Right now when an issue is released, A preview gets sent out which prompts the user to “Unlock the full issue! Buy now” When a user clicks “buy now” they are then re-directed to the s2member registration page (open registration with pro-forms) if they have already registered they have to log in.

After registration or Logging in, the user then has to find the issue they want to purchase again, and click “buy now” at which point they go through Paypal, and their CCAP for that issue is then activated.

As you can see these extra steps are a barrier to entry when a user is ready to purchase we may lose them.

What I’d like to happen is have a Buy Button, that goes DIRECTLY to Paypal, after their purchase they are directed to register an account, where their paid purchase is now accessible.

Having them register first is too many steps when it would be better to lock in their purchase first.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks again for any help.

All the best,
– Seth

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