Membership Script For WordPress

Here’s a pretty accurate list of what’s coming in the next few days:

* Spanking-new DAP Admin Dashboard Navigation Menu

* Comments on protected pages/posts are now hidden from un-authorized users. Comments are shown only to authorized, logged-in users who have access to view that post/page

* DAP now hides WordPress Page links from the sidebar as well as from the WP standard navigation menu. So if a WP Page (not the same as a WP Post) is protected and the user (logged in or not-logged-in) is not yet eligible to view it (or access has expired), then the link to the protected page will no longer even “display” on your blog’s sidebar.

* Title of the Login/Logout Widget on the sidebar, can now be customized

* Login/Logout Form can be completely changed to however you want it to look.

* OTO’s are now free and part of core DAP

* Complete “Power Customization” of protected content error messages (ones with the DAP lock image)

* Ability to redirect unauthorized users to a custom URL : to any page on your site, to any page on any site, to a product-specific error page, or to your sales page.

* Separate customizable error messages for logged-in users (who have lost access to expired content, or because they don’t yet have access to it because of the dripping) and non-logged in users

* Login-form shows up right on the error page for non-loggedin users trying to access a protected link. So when someone visits a protected link, DAP will show them something to the effect of “Sorry, you don’t have access… Click here to buy access to this content. Already a member? Log in below…”

* You can customize every last piece of the error message.

* Custom Redirection After Login: Now you publish multiple login forms on your web site, one per product – IF you so choose to – and pass a hidden form variable called “redirect”. So after the user logs in, you can take the user to any page on any site you want. In effect, what this does is allow you to control the “URL After Login” for different products, and allow you to redirect them to any custom page immediately after they login. Of course, you must set up one login form PER product. May not be too useful for the average DAP admin, but this has been requested a lot for a while, so we decided to implement this. Low hanging fruit . In a future version, you will be able to set this “POST_LOGIN_URL” at a Product level, right within the Product page.

* DAP is becoming a Platform! WooHoo! You will soon be able to Develop Plugins For DAP just the way people today can Develop Plugins For Wordpress. So DAP will no longer be just a Membership Script – it will become an entire platform by itself – something that different developers and companies and vendors can extend easily without touching or modifying the DAP core files.

And finally…

* [HUGE] Upsell-Tree for Regular Paypal: You can now do 1-Click Upsells using just a plain ol’ Paypal Standard (business) account. No merchant account required. This Plugin will be sold separately and will not be released as part of DAP.

And to think that we’re just getting started in 2010! DAP is absolutely going to ROCK! So stay tuned.

And feel free to comment below.

Cheers!

- Ravi Jayagopal & Veena Prashanth

OTO’s are now part of DAP. And they’re available for free to all DAP users.

This OTO script can also be used for making Upsells and Downsells too!

Only thing you have to remember is this…

Click here to read the rest of the post and documentation on OTO’s.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Ok, so here’s what coming in DAP v3.7 and LiveLinks v1.2:

• Complete customization of “protected content” error messages (ones with the DAP lock image)
• Ability to redirect unauthorized users to a custom URL – even to your sales page.
• Redirect to any page on your site – or on any site.
• Separate customizable error messages for logged-in users (who have lost access to expired content, or because they don’t yet have access to it because of the dripping) and non-logged in users
• Put login-form right within the error page. So when someone visits a protected link, DAP will show them something to the effect of “Sorry, you don’t have access… Click here to buy access to this content. Already a member? Log in below…”
• You can customize every last piece of the error message.
• Or you can simply redirect them to a product-specific error page, or even to the product’s sales page if you want.
• TOTAL POWER CUSTOMIZATION! Yay!

Watch the video below and you’ll see what this is all about.

If you’re interested in trying out the beta version, do let us know via the comments below, and we’ll get you the code.

And in the video, you can also see the new “DAP Dashboard”.

All of this will be available for free to all DAP users.

Feel free to comment below.

- Ravi Jayagopal
PS: Oh, one more thing… There’s a new plugin that we will be releasing shortly: Upsell-Tree for regular Paypal accounts. Which means you can now do 1-Click Upsells and Downsells with a regular Paypal account! No merchant account required. How cool is that?

Ok, here’s the video:

We recently wasted 2 precious days working on 2checkout.com integration for DAP – only to find out at the end, that 2CO puts every single transaction through a forced, offline “Fraud Check” process that could take up to 48 hours to complete.

Which means, when your buyer hits the “buy” button on your site to become a member, agrees to pays $9.97 or $17 or $27 or $97, whips out their credit card, enters all of the information, hits “Pay”, and now can’t wait to access your product that you have spent so much time and money in marketing it to them …

… in comes 2CO and completely sabotages your entire effort.

Because it could 2CO up to 48 hours to actually put the charge through.

Which means, the payment is in limbo for 48 hours.

As the seller, you won’t get the money for 48 hours.

You’re not even guaranteed of getting the money, because the transaction could be flagged as “fraudulent” based on some crazy internal policies or rules.

On the flip side (and this is worse), your buyer doesn’t get access to the product he just paid you for, because obviously you can’t give them access to your super-duper-product, because you haven’t even received the money yet!

And if after 48 hours, 2CO comes back and rejects the purchase, there is nothing you can do about it.

Now remember, this is not the buyer’s credit card issuing bank that’s saying it’s a fraudulent charge. This is not a chargeback.This is not Amazon (the merchant) who is doing an “internal check” before shipping your product to you.

This is just the stupid middle man – 2CO – based on their “blackbox” investigations, deciding that it’s an invalid purchase.

Which means your buyer who had a valid card, and has money in his account, just got his purchase rejected.

And you were just stripped of a sale.

I would be shocked if any digital or information product sellers are using 2CO at all.

If you are, then please comment below and enlighten me as to how you are going about doing that. Maybe I’m missing something. But most probably, I’m not.

Because when we tested it ourselves making a test purchase, we saw first-hand what a disappointed buyer and an outraged seller would experience.

2Checkout: Fail.

Now integrates with Paypal Website Payments Pro!

Check out the “Upsell Tree” video if you haven’t already.

Now you can do Unlimited 1-Click Upsells, Downsells & OTO’s with both Authorize.net and Paypal Website Payments Pro!

This totally rocks!

Also, DAP v3.6 Beta is out. Has changes for Paypal Payments Pro integration, Authnet form look & feel, and integration for Paypal “Add To Cart” buttons too!

<LAUNCH SALE>

Oh, and only for the next 3 days, you can purchase the Paypal Upsell Tree plugin for $97 ($30 off the regular price of $127).

Just send us a payment of $97 to Ravi _AT_ DigitalAccessPass.com , and you’ll get access shortly. The $30 launch sale ends on 01/29 (Friday) at midnight.

</LAUNCH SALE>

Feel free to comment below.

- Ravi Jayagopal

Upsell-Tree

Have you checked out our spanking new “Upsell Tree” video? Also check out the new documentation for installing Upsell-Tree.

If you recently purchased the Upsell-Tree plugin, simply download the latest versions of both DAP and UpsellTree and upload all files to your site. We made some minor fixes and improvements.

DAP & LiveLinks

Did you know that DAP v3.5 and LiveLinks v1.1 have been out for over a week now? Download them from your member’s area.

Even if you recently upgraded DAP, it’s not a bad idea to just download all new DAP and LiveLinks files and upload them once more to your site. Doesn’t hurt, plus you can be absolutely sure you have the latest files.

Feel free to comment below.

Enjoy!

- Ravi & Veena
PS: Oh, and Paypal Pro support is coming very soon

We’re launching 3 New, Super-Powerful, DAP Plugins on Jan 11th, 2010 (Monday!).

1) Authorize.net Plugin

2) “Upsell Tree”: 1-Click Upsells & Downsells (Unlimited)

3) One-Time Offers (OTO) Plugin

The launch is going to happen during a webinar.

Use this post to comment about this announcement.

And click here to signup for the webinar.

- Ravi Jayagopal

WooHoo! Aweber has finally finished a custom email parser for DigitalAccessPass, I’ve tested it and it works great!

This is going to make Aweber integration as simple as just adding “yourlist@aweber.com” to the “3rd Party Notification Email Id” field on your “Product” page in DAP. That’s it! 5-second integration. No more will you need to do any of this!

But, before it shows up on the list of global parsers, and in fact for it to even show on the list of global parsers in your Aweber account, I need your help asap.

Please visit Aweber.com, open a ticket, and tell them something to the effect of…

“Hi Aweber Support,

I want the custom parser “DigitalAccessPass.com” to be added to my Aweber account.

This parser is currently available in Aweber account plugandplay owned by Ravi Jayagopal

Here’s my Aweber login: _______

Here’s my Aweber password: _______

Thanks!

- Your Name”

That’s it.

Once they have at least 10 people request this, then the Custom DigitalAccessPass.com Parser will then be added to the global list of Email Parsers, and it will be available to everyone. And no one else will have to send these guys the above email any more. Probably just the first 10.

But I do need your help to send this email to them asap.

Feel free to comment below if you have any questions.

Thanks!

- Ravi Jayagopal

Very exciting times ahead for DAP! Lots of cool features coming soon…

Coming Soon

1) Authorize.net integration
2) 1-Click Upsells
3) One-Time Offers (OTO)
4) Coupons…

And more!

Here’s what is coming in just a few days…

Authorize.net Integration

Which means, if you have an Authorize.net merchant account, then DAP itself becomes your shopping cart. No need for a 3rd party cart like 1SiteAutomation.com (1ShoppingCart Private Label).

It also means that the customer never leaves your web site to make a payment. No more sending people to a different web site – like Paypal – for instance. Customer stays within your web site’s pages. And makes a purchase right on your web site.

Once this plugin goes live soon, 1-Click Upsells and OTO’s will soon follow suit.

If you are willing to try out the Authnet Plugin beta version, you will get a substantial discount on the plugin. So please let us know via the comments below if you’re interested in signing up for the beta and getting the discount.

What You Need (To Use This Plugin)

1) Your own Authorize.net Merchant Account

2) A “SSL Certificate” on your web host.This is where your site looks like “https://Yoursite.com” with the extra “s” after the “http..”. That is what allows your members to “securely” enter their credit card information on your site and submit it for payment processing. We can help you set up SSL on your host for a fee. Just ask us.

Taking DAP To A Whole New Level

DAP already does way more than what our competitors do.

With the addition of these features (and even more that we’ll be adding: Product Chaining, Joomla Support, vBulletin integration, …) we’re taking DAP to a whole new level.

And we are really excited, humbled and honored that it is your support that has allowed us to get here.

And we promise you that in 2010, we’re going to take DAP “Where No Membership Script Has Gone Before!”

And finally, a “HUGE Thank You” for your show of support and incredible feedback at the Warrior Forum . I’ve published your comments from the forum on our testimonials page.

Cheers and have an an AMAZING 2010!

- Ravi Jayagopal

PS: And don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.

Many of our competitors who claim to have “Content Dripping”, don’t really have true content dripping.

That’s what we’re hearing from multiple users who have used our competitor’s product, and moved away from it because of this very reason.

For example, one of them (you could say they’re our main competition) has what they call “Sequential Content Delivery”. Though on the surface it does seem to be what you think of when you say “Content Dripping”, in reality, it’s not exactly that.

How THEIR “Dripping” works

Let’s say you have one Product – and wish to gradually deliver content over 12 months.

What you would have to do with their model, is you end up creating 12 different products (or membership levels) – one for each month.

And then set up their sequential upgrades to upgrade your member from…

Product 1 to Product 2 at the end of Month 1,

Product 2 to Product 3 at the end of Month 2, etc.

So if you have 12 months worth of content, you basically end up creating 12 different products (or levels, or whatever they call it).

Even though it’s just ONE product!

And once someone gets upgraded to Month 2’s content, ALL of that content is available to them on Day 1 of Month 2. Unless you set up the individual day’s worth of content also as separate products.

But with the above setup, within a month’s content, there is no “staggered” delivery. All of month 2 content is available on Day 1 of Month 2. No “dripping” there.

Which means, someone who just signed up, gets access to ALL of Month #1 content right on Day #1.

And if their recurring payment came in month 2, that means they get access to ALL of Month #2 content on Day #31 (or Day 1 of Month 2).

Not good.

Because this means they can download everything on Day #1 and simply ask for a refund. Which means the whole idea of “dripping” is defeated.

And here’s where it gets more hairy…

Let’s say you have 3 levels: Platinum, Gold and Silver.

So for the Platinum product, to drip content on your Platinum members for 12 months, you end up creating 12 Platinum products.

So, instead of just having one “Platinum” product, you now have 12 different products…

“Platinum 1″ with Month 1’s content

“Platinum 2″ with Month 2’s content

“Platinum 3″ with Month 3’s content

“Platinum 4″ with Month 4’s content

“Platinum 5″ with Month 5’s content

“Platinum 6″ with Month 6’s content

“Platinum 7″ with Month 7’s content

“Platinum 8″ with Month 8’s content

“Platinum 9″ with Month 9’s content

“Platinum 10″ with Month 10’s content

“Platinum 11″ with Month 11’s content

“Platinum 12″ with Month 12’s content

And that was just your ONE LEVEL.

You would also have to create the 12 “Gold” products:

“Gold 1″ with Month 1’s content

“Gold 2″ with Month 2’s content

“Gold 3″ with Month 3’s content

“Gold 4″ with Month 4’s content

“Gold 5″ with Month 5’s content

“Gold 6″ with Month 6’s content

“Gold 7″ with Month 7’s content

“Gold 8″ with Month 8’s content

“Gold 9″ with Month 9’s content

“Gold 10″ with Month 10’s content

“Gold 11″ with Month 11’s content

“Gold 12″ with Month 12’s content

Then you have the 12 “Silver” products.

“Silver 1″ with Month 1’s content

“Silver 2″ with Month 2’s content

“Silver 3″ with Month 3’s content

“Silver 4″ with Month 4’s content

“Silver 5″ with Month 5’s content

“Silver 6″ with Month 6’s content

“Silver 7″ with Month 7’s content

“Silver 8″ with Month 8’s content

“Silver 9″ with Month 9’s content

“Silver 10″ with Month 10’s content

“Silver 11″ with Month 11’s content

“Silver 12″ with Month 12’s content

So to basically have 3 membership levels, and drip content over a period of 12 months, you have to create, setup, and manage a whopping 36 different products.

True Story

<snip>….

We already had our website set up with other competition software but found out that it wouldn’t suit our needs for a true drip campaign product.  That’s when I came across Digitial Access Pass.

DAP makes it super easy to set up a simple content drip product even if you have different membership levels. No more having to make 36 products and put into sequential delivery just to get a one year 3 level drip campaign.  DAP is simple…just 3 products for the same content drip product.  Not only can you drip content like videos, pdfs, documents and audios but this fabulous software also gives you the option to drip emails into the product too…what a fantastic idea!

…</snip>

Tawnya Sutherland
VANetworking.com

read full testimonial

In fact, only after she told us about this, did we actually know that our “leading” competitor does not have true content dripping. That feature is only on their todo list <wink> <wink> , and is not really what you think it is.

DAP has “TruDrip”

With DAP, you create just 3 products: Platinum, Gold, and Silver.

And within the Platinum product, you can set up your content to drip for not just a few days, or for a year, but for as long as you need to.

Which means, your content is available to your member exactly how you set it up.

Day 1: Blog post 1
Day 7: Video 1
Day 14: PDF 1
Day 21: MP3 1
Day 28: Article 1
Day 31 (Month 2): Video 2
Day 38: PDF 2…

And if you want more advanced customization of this content, then you click on the “edit” link you see above (in the left-most corner of each row), and here’s what you would see.

So would you be prefer to go crazy trying to set up crude hacks just to accomplish a simple content drip for several months?

Or would you rather set it all up intuitively, where the software works just the way you think?

If you want true “Content Drip”, and your content to be safe from unauthorized or rogue users, and want to set it all up easily, then DAP’s “ContentResponder” feature is the real deal.

DAP is legitimately superior software. But don’t take our word for it. We want you to experience it for yourself – which is why we offer a 30-day, fully-functional, full-featured, free trial.

We want to know what you think. So don’t forget to add your comments below.

- Ravi Jayagopal