Overview
CBSubs is a Paid Subscriptions Membership Management solution for Community Builder.
It is a very powerful environment that allows you to implement many different membership management use cases. Some of these use cases are included in the extensive 400+ page guide and other use cases are shared on the CBSubs Use Cases forum area.
Nevertheless, CBSubs can easily be used to support any of the following concepts:
- Online charge and collect membership fees
- Protect Joomla content (articles, modules, components, menus, etc.) and require membership plan subscription for access
- Integrate with popular download extensions to create electronic goods downloading (example: template clubs, electronic PDF magazine access, etc).
- Provide different CB Profiles (tabs, fields, etc.) based on differnt membership subscriptions (example: Teacher profiles versus Student profiles, etc).
CBSubs is presentedt in detail on the Joomlapolis CBSubs Pages and additional questions can be asked in the CBSubs Presales forum.
Licensing
CBSubs is provided on a floating license basis. You purchase a lifetime license based on the following number of users count on your Joomla / CB website:
- Starter License (up to 500 users)
- Beginner License (up to 5000 users)
- Intermediate License (up to 15000 users)
- Advanced License (up to 25000 users)
- Unlimited (no user limit)
The number of users limit is calculated by the total number of rows in your Joomla users table. This includes all users on your website, whether they are active, blocked, administrators, etc.
Detailed pricing is described in the CBSubs pages on Joomlapolis.
The following license concepts are applicable:
- You can purchase a higher level user count for your existing CBSubs license purchase at any time by paying the difference
- Your CBSubs license can be used on a single production site, its test environment and its development environment.
- You can move your CBSubs license to a different CBSubs installation without notifying anyone. The license is a "floating license", just uninstall CBSubs from one site and install on new site (even short overlap is permitted)
- The CBSubs license is a lifetime license and will work on your existing CBSubs installed version forever. However, your purchased license will only work on a new CBSubs version (released after your initial license purchase) only if the new version was released during a valid license maintenance period (see License Maintenance concept below).
License Maintenance Period
CBSubs is a software product and as most software products has various version releases during its lifetime. In order for existing CBSubs licenses to work with new CBSubs product released versions an up to date License maintenance period must be present.
The following license maintenance period concepts are applicable:
- Initial CBSubs license purchases include a free year license maintenance period. This means that if you purchased your CBSubs license on 2010-01-01 and the following CBSubs product releases took place:
--> CBSubs 1.0 released 2009-10-29
--> CBSubs 1.1 released 2010-05-15
--> CBSubs 1.2 released 2011-02-18
Then your CBSubs license can be used with version 1.0 and 1.1 of the software, but it cannot be used with version 1.2 because it was released after your 2011-01-01 licene maintenance period expiration. Your license will however continue to work with versions 1.0 and 1.1 forever (as its a lifetime license as stated). - You can extend your license maintenance period by purchasing extra yearly maintenance period which are added to the previous expiration date thus etending license maintenance expiration by one year. In the previous example, the license owner can purchase another maintenance year and extend the maintenance period expiration date from 2011-01-01 to 2012-01-01. By doing this the existing license will now work with CBSubs 1.2 (once again forever).
