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Joomla + Community Builder + CCBill Payment Processing + ???

I am working with a client on their website. They have created their website usi Joomla and community builder and it is almost easy to go live, but with one major problem...we cannot find a membership system which supports CCBill for recurring subscriptions.

My client has purchased and tried the following:
  • CBSubs — There is no CCBill processor/gateway
  • AEC — No support for recurring subscriptions on CCBill processor/gateway.

What product can we use for defining monthly plans (recurring) and single-buy plans like "One Day" or "One Week"?
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I do not know for sure if they support CCbill (i couldn't find anything other than them saying their module accepts paypal and others) but you might check RSJoomla's application called RS Membership.

www.rsjoomla.com
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RSmemberships was actually one that we had read about, but We we unable to find anything regarding CCBill (which is an absolute must).
AEC wouldn't work? Do you know why? Is it possible it was mis-configured?
We were in contact directly with AEC who have actually logged into our system back end to check and correct configuration errors. They basically told us that their implementation of CCBill was unreliable, and I quote:

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WE do have it programmed to work as recurring, but the CCBill datalink services "have a hit and miss" type of response. They only allow so many requests per hour and day. We have had several people try to use the datalink services, but they have had problems. This is why we recommend vhtaccess for those using CCBill.

But I see you also have CB on the site, which will not work with Vhtaccess but Jomsocial will
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We are already committed to using CB, so Jomsocial is not a solution for us.
I would recommend you create a plugin to connect the ccbill scripts with CB, Ive done this in the past for custom system and it works well, with the custom setting you can do in CB you are able to acheive links from CB to pretty much anything.

We wrote lots of plugins to connect CB to smartlaunch billing/internet cafe software for a client a while back. They were pretty light and didnt require too much effort.

The best bet if AEC wont work directly with CB you could take that side of the transaction out of CB and do it externally on the server

The hit or miss response is very worrying however, that instantly would make me use something else, can you give us more of an overview of the system you are needing to setup and why your using CB, CCBill and AEC?

Would give us a better idea of a way we might be able to solve this

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We need a solution which we can purchase because the website is due to go live tomorrow.

My client found that CCBill was their only option because it is an adult website. The entire site was built with community builder in mind, and there are a lot of CB plugins which are working perfectly.

We are not too fussed about AEC, my client is prepared to use anything which will allow him to specify a monthly subscription plan which automatically takes payment monthly, and several single buy plans for "One Day", "One Week", and even "One Year". A member must not be able to access "Registered" content unless their subscription is up to date.
Further Note: CB is providing registered users with a "User Profile" along with various tabs and features/.
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Although you could get ahold of this beta plugin

http://www.joomlapolis.com/content/view/4641/37/

Im not sure if it made it to market but im sure its floating around cyberspace somewhere

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> But if this still isnt possible, and you have to use the payment option, then manual is your option as a temp measure since your going live tommorow, sell various packages 1 week , 1 month , 1 year, and create a custom registration class within CB for a valid date. so if you buy the 1 week pass it allows user to log in for 1 week then blocks account until paid.

Manual might be the way forward until we have a custom built payment processor. How would we manually receive payment from a member?
> But the fact you said site needs to go live tommorow you are cutting this fine, I'll cross my fingers for you :)

We need as much luck as we can get!
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Unfortunately VirtueMart hasn't got a CCBill processor, we are having exactly the same problem with this. PayPal have permitted us to sell some of our products, but they will not let us sell membership.

Do you know of a standalone CCBill enabled e-store for PHP which we could set up for this?
Unfortunatly no, we tried worldpay with no success, paybycash allows subscriptions and is linkable to VM
but im not sure if it allows adult sites or not

Its a tough one

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Hi,
You can try to get a quote on this site:
http://www.joomlancers.com

Okay, we have created a greatly reduced osCommerce store which only has one product (a membership plan).

We are happy to go the manual route for membership creation, but is it feasible to create a community builder member (upon successful purchase) by adding a record to "jos_user" and "jos_comprofiler"? or is it more complicated than that?

If this were possible this would be a temporarily solution which would bide us by for 2 weeks while we organise the creation of a CCBill processor for CBSubs. The website should be going live in about 4 hours, but if possible we would like to automate this...
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Thanks for the help guys, after a lot of work things seem to be going smoothly. We did manage to go live on the required day by creating a customized osCommerce store.