Free trial without credit card

Hi @opscanbot

That recipe would only work for users who sign up after it’s been added to the site. Is it possible that the user who signed up for a trial, had done so before the code was applied?

They might have then signed up once more and then the code recipe took effect and blocked them from signing up for (essentially) a third time?

Has this also only happened to one user?

I’ve tested the recipe on my side and can confirm it works, so suspect it might have been an anomaly with that user (or they signed up before the recipe was added).

Hi @jarryd-long,

We already had the code recipe for months. It affects multiple users so not a one-off incident. What’s strange is the code recipe successfully let users sign up for free trial without credit card but failed to check if a user is signing up for the same free trial for the second time. Could it be that the check for second time+ failed? How do I go about verifying this?

This is really puzzling…

You can add three lines of code at approximately line 45 (https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-snippets-library/blob/dev/membership-levels/offer-trial-memberships-only-used-once.php#L45) to verify if that user has been tracked and used that membership before

var_dump($level);
var_dump($already);
exit();

Once that’s been added, run a test checkout with a user account that should have previously signed up for the trial level – you should get the level ID, a true or 1 value and then a white screen below it.

Hi @jarryd-long

Unfortunately, the same problem still persist. I tried checking out the free trial for the second time using the same user account and it checked me out right away. No “true” or 1 value with a white screen. Should I be seeing this after I check out? If it is, then I don’t have it.

This part of the code for some reasons are not working as intended. Also, my level ID remained at 6. Should this be 1?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by opscanbot.

This line https://github.com/strangerstudios/pmpro-snippets-library/blob/dev/membership-levels/offer-trial-memberships-only-used-once.php#L26 should be changed to match the trial level – which in your case I believe is Level 6?

The code should then read $trial_levels = array( 6 );

If that still doesn’t work, please advise how/where this code has been added to your site?

Hi @jarryd-long ,

I wrote the exact same code. The code does work partially. It allows users including existing users to check out without credit card. It just doesn’t recheck if they ever use the free trial.

I use the code snippets plugin to input the php code.

Thanks for your feedback. I still can’t replicate this on my side so I’m trying to troubleshoot any other possible causes behind this with you here.

Do you have any other custom code running on your site? If so, please temporarily deactivate it and run a new test checkout, and let me know if the issue persists?

Hi @jarryd-long ,

No other code snippet running on the side. Sigh

Thank you for your feedback. The only other suggestion I have for now is to try and load the code from your theme’s functions.php file.

If this doesn’t help, I would recommend reaching out to a developer that can look further into this for you, or post a project on jobs.wordpress.net.

Because there have not been any recent updates to this topic, we will be changing the status to resolved.

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