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If you want to change the password of a user, then just go to the Users > Manage link, search for either that user (if you know her email id), or search for all users. See more about searching in another post.

Then click on the “Name” of the user, and you will go to the “Edit User” screen. There you can change the user’s password.

If you are the admin and looking to change your own password, then you can do the same as above (as the “admin” is also a user in the system, except with the user type “admin”).

Or you can go to “User Home” and click on “Edit Profile” and change your password there.

Now the “User Home” is the page that all your users would see when they are logged into your members-only area powered by DAP. So, we’ve basically provided you, the admin, a way to see what they see, when you visit the “User Home” page.

We’ve tried to make DAP installation extremely simple.

To get the basic installation of DAP up and running, it will take about 10 minutes.

There are also advanced installation pieces (like the DAP Cron job, that will send out scheduled autoresponder emails and bulk emails) that require a wee bit more time (like another 10 minutes).

But we’re here to support you every step of the way.

So here are the various pieces of installation:

1. DAP Files and Database Installation

2. Protecting WordPress:
- WP in Root folder (Example.com itself is your blog)
- WP in Sub-folder (Example.com/blog)

3. Protecting Regular Site Files
Eg., (Example.com/product/yourproduct.pdf)

4. Customizing DAP to your site:
- Modifying “Config” data
- Customizing Header and Footer

5. Setting up the Cron job

- Ravi Jayagopal

For DAP Support, open a ticket at http://www.DigitalAccessPass.com/support/

The Configuration data of your DAP installation can be customized online.

1. Log in to DAP as admin at:
   Example.com/dap/
2. Click on the “Config” link in the nav bar at the top.
3. You will see a drop-down (showing “Basic” by default). You can modify option by option (”Basic”, “Payment Processing”, etc) or view them all together at one time (”All”).
4. WARNING: Save each modified config field individually. This means, every time you modify one row of config data, hit the “Save” button at the end of that row. You will not be able to change multiple rows and have all of them saved all at once. It has to be saved row by row*.
5. Change data like “Site Name”, “Admin Name”, “Admin Email” etc.

That’s it!

NOTE: The reason why we allow only one row to be “Saved” at a time, is to prevent you from messing up (by accident) config stuff that was already working. So, this way, you can mess up only one row at a time

- Ravi Jayagopal

So just how easy is it to create a Product in DAP? Incredibly easy, as you will see below.

Product Name:

Obviously, this is the name you give your product. So if you are creating a product (subscription-based, or one-time purchase) about how to make money online, then you would call it “How to make money online”. This name will be used by DAP on various screens, emails and reports. So, name it something intuitive, and not something cryptic.

Description:

Use this to expand on what your product does. This field is used on auto-generated error pages and such.

Sales Page URL (optional):

When a user who doesn’t have access to the links in this product, DAP can show her a default error page (see “Error Page URL” below), and on that error page, it will say something to the effect of “Sorry, you don’t have access to this Product. You have to purchase access to it first.” and then the link to this “Sales Page URL” will be shown, which the user can then follow to read your sales page and then purchase the product.

Error Page URL (optional):

If you use the default value above, then DAP will show the default error page when a user tries to access a URL that she doesn’t have access to yet, URL to which access has expired, or she hasn’t purchased the product of which the URL is a part of.

Is this a recurring product?

Pick “Yes” or “No” depending on if this product is a recurring product for which you expect periodic payments to come in.

If you pick “No”, then when the user purchases this product (or you give her direct access from the admin area), then the user is given access from Day 1 to Day 9999.

Price

Enter the price of your product, regardless of whether it is one-time or recurring. This data is not used by DAP currently. In the future, this may be used for payment validation purposes.

Billing Cycle

Applicable only if recurring is set to yes. If this is a recurring product, then you need to enter how often billing is done (in days). So, if your product is available for a monthly subscription, then enter “30″ (as in, billing occurs once every “30″ days).

Product Status

If you want to temporarily remove access for all users to all URL’s in this product, then change the status to “Inactive”.

3rd Party Notification Email Ids

If you want DAP to send email notifications to 3rd party email addresses (like autoresponder services, or JV partners), then enter one or more email addresses here - separate multiple email addresses by a comma.

Every time a user subscribes (paid or free) to this product, an email is sent out by DAP to all these email addresses - the “from name” is the subscriber’s name, and the “from email” is the subscriber’s email address

This is very useful for automatically adding your subscriber to a 3rd party list service that has a “subscribable” email address - like yourautoresponder@1siteautomation.com or subscribe@yourlist.com .

Once you fill out the fields, click on the “Save/Update Product” button to save the changes.

Use the same form to make changes to the fields as well.

Random Stuff About Products

A Product is just a collection of “Files” and “Emails”.

So if you are running a subscription site on “How To Train Dogs”, you could give your product the same name - “How to Train Dogs”.

For every new “subscription” based product you wish to sell and manage using DAP, you need to create a new “Product” within DAP.

You can add both “Files” (basically links) as well as “Emails” to an existing Product.

Adding files means that as an admin, you can say which files on your web site are part of this product, and you can go into each link and specify the access control for that file (is that file free or paid, when is it accessible to the user and for how long, etc). You can add files from your web site using the provided file browser within the “Manage Products” page, or you can also add using full URL’s (like http://www.YourSite.com/dogtraining/protect-this-post.html).

Adding emails means you can setup an email autoresponse to be a part of this Product, and that email can be configured to go out to the user after “X” number of days after she has joined, or on a specific date (in case your email is date- or time- sensitive.