Nav Menu Roles with Woocommerce Membership Integration

It is covered in the FAQ under I’m using XYZ Membership plugin and I don’t see its “levels”?. you need to create a “pseudo” role.

Luckily for you, I have already written a bridge plugin for NMR and WooCommerce Memberships which is available here:
https://github.com/helgatheviking/nav-menu-roles-woocommerce-memberships

If you find it valuable, please consider a donation:
https://www.paypal.me/helgatheviking

yeh defo if it works i sure will,

how do i download this and will i still need to keep teh plugin nav menu roles?

hey Helga,

Awesome i downloaded the plugin and now see the menu options for the different memberships
free / silver /gold membership options

i am attempting to add a menu tab for UPGRADE – and i have selected it via custom links and have tried the option from Products adding to the menu, with selecting the free option,

however it is not working, i even tried with a monthly demo user account and the option shows even though the upgrade option is only for free ?

i am sure i may be doing something incorrect in settings?

Thank you

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Glad you found the zip file to download. From your screenshot and description I’m not quite clear what is happening for you. When you say “menu tab” which menu are you referring to? It looks like you have 2 menus plus the My Account tabs. Could you annotate your screenshot? That might help me follow along.

Though I do see an “Upgrade” link, and I’m guessing that the $0/month subscription enables the Free membership, so that seems right. What is happening that you aren’t expecting?

Here’s how I’ve set up my own demo site:
I created a “Free Plan” Membership
I configured this membership to be available to users who purchase “Subscription X”
I added myself as a “Free Plan” member
I created a menu item called “Upgrade” for the main menu
The menu is assigned a theme location, in Twenty Sixteen, I’ve chosen “primary menu”
Under Logged in users, I’ve selected the “Free Plan” checkbox.

When I visit the website, I see the “Upgrade” menu item. When I log out or switch to a different user, I no longer see the menu item.

Let me know if that helps.

Hey Helga,

Thank you ver much for your help ??

“Though I do see an “Upgrade” link, and I’m guessing that the $0/month subscription enables the Free membership, so that seems right. What is happening that you aren’t expecting?”

That is correct it is $0/ Subscription, it should only allow Trial subscriptions to see this, when they upgrade their membership plan they should not see “UPGRADE” Tab.

Are you using Woocommerce Memberships and Woocommerce Subscriptions>?

Here is my set up For Products:
Trial / monthly / annual products is set up as a simple subscription linked to grouping product

‘Product Membership’ this is for the upgrade option for users to upgrade their membership.
here is the link : https://imgur.com/a/4aGys

Membership (Woocommerce plugin ‘Membership’) here is teh set up of the twi plans https://imgur.com/a/4aGys

Really unsure you have any screenshots on your set up for guidance,

It is a shame Woothemes did not create a docs guide for the interlinked of these two plugin it promotes. ;(

Thank you for you help again ??

Once a user upgrades, does she have both free and upgraded memberships active? If so, that would explain why the user is still seeing the “Upgrade” menu item.

It appears that it is entirely possible for a user to have multiple, concurrent, memberships.

https://imageshack.com/i/pnkfCGnop

So I thinkwhat you’ll need to do is find a way to configure the trial membership to end as soon as the user upgrades.

It is a shame Woothemes did not create a docs guide for the interlinked of these two plugin it promotes.

This plugin is something I was hired to build and released afterwards. It isn’t officially supported, by myself or by Woothemes, though I ought to right a little docu up for my long-suffering blog.

Hey

Thanks for your response.

“Once a user upgrades, does she have both free and upgraded memberships active? If so, that would explain why the user is still seeing the “Upgrade” menu item.”

i think this would be a possibility,
“So I thinkwhat you’ll need to do is find a way to configure the trial membership to end as soon as the user upgrades.”

would you know how to do this set up correctlly, i am asking woothemes but we are going round and round, as trial users are having two membership riunning at the same time
and i am using their subscription plugin with it also.

do you have any screenshots or any guide to help me with solving this, which i think is the conflict like you said ??

Thank you

Well we’re way beyond Nav Menu Roles now, but here goes:

First, according to Memberships docs, you can handle upgrading/downgrading via Subscription Switching. This involves creating a variable subscription and using the different variations to control which membership level is granted.
https://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-memberships-subscriptions-integration/#section-7

Define attribute for variable product
https://imageshack.com/i/pltGurwrp

Define variations based on attribute
https://imageshack.com/i/pl1b9BSkp

We can limit the subscription to “one of any kind”, so that whenever we visit the product page we’re redirected into the “subscription switching” that controls the upgrade/downgrade process. This will be helpful when creating a link to the product for your menu.
https://imageshack.com/i/poG0iTdyp

Set up your membership plan granting access to people who purchase a specific variation of the Membership Variable subscription
https://imageshack.com/i/poEnT8Fep

Set Subscriptions options to allow switching between subscription variations
https://imageshack.com/i/plWH9QBwp

After purchasing the new membership is created
https://imageshack.com/i/polrePvqp

When viewing the subscription in your account you will see an upgrade/downgrade button
https://imageshack.com/i/plPGIPytp

This will send you back to the product page with instructions to choose a new subscription
https://imageshack.com/i/pnnASLukp

Adding a different level to the cart. The cart recognizes that this is an upgrade
https://imageshack.com/i/pn09hdVGp

Voila, after checkout is completed the user’s old membership is cancelled and the new membership is activated.
https://imageshack.com/i/poQ8Uye3p

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Now, you should be able to create a menu item for the product, name it “upgrade” and only display it to your trial members via Nav Menu Roles. When they upgrade via subscription switching their membership will be switched automatically and they will not have concurrent memberships. I’d like to say you could even write a custom link that defines the proposed membership level, ex:

https://www.sandbox.dev/shop/membership?attribute_level=gold

but currently that attribute parameter is dropped during Subscriptions’ redirect, so that’s a no-go for now.

But otherwise, I think this is what you were describing.

Hey Helga, Awesome reply and will attempt it,

one quick question do i need to create 3 subscription Products set as Variable Subscription i.e.

Products / Trial / Monthly / Annual

and all 3 woudl have three vairable subscriptiosn set ?

Hey
just testing out and running in to some challenges.

here is my set up as guided ??

Product Set up: https://postimg.org/gallery/w7wn9ins/1b2f6ad2/

Membership Plan : https://postimg.org/image/ightmdak1/5ef71616/

Upgrade Menu: https://postimg.org/image/feq0ymd4n/0da05d77/

Here is when a user tests out the demo, and purchases trial and tries to upgrade, then becomes an issue in regards to cannot add product ?
https://postimg.org/gallery/2pzg6cyma/3179a123/

Everything looks fine in your screenshots. As you figured out, you need 1 variable subscription product with multiple variations. Do you have prices configured for each variation? That’s the main reason a product would fail the is_purchasable() test.

If that doesn’t solve it and you want, you can send me admin credentials via my contact page and I will take a look.

hey,

i added the prices as suggested, and have saved only one membership per subscription.

however i am still running into challenges, as it wont let me add upgrade.

I also noticed on Membership Plans thats Trial user was getting access to course not allowed, :S

Thank you very much i will email you over now with my credentials

also paypal test is : [email protected]