That's exactly what I'm doing. The user is never assigned anything other than the automatic roles in the portal. I've tried just about every variation I can think of. The product is $0, so the user is instantly marked as paid, but no role is assigned. Susanne of Catalook has offered to take a look, so maybe she'll find something. She's been very responsive/helpful in emails, but if I stump her with an odd "How do I" question I don't hear back from her. lol!

But this one has got to work! It's a major feature of the product!

Yes I got it to work that way thanks or checking this out! That was the only thing I didn't try since we're not charging for subscriptions yet. I guess I don't really need the cart to handle free subscription products. I can just bring back the portal registration page and have them sign-up that way...

That means that the customer is automatically added to the selected user role for the selected period after payment has been effected. This can be used if you want publish content on your portal tabs which is only visible for customers who are members of a specific role."

To which I say, "Huh??"

Susanne Koehler did respond to my request for help, with this:

"Please find all informations in the module help of module CAT_StoreSettings and in the admin manual."


So, basically, I was told to RTFM.  Not helpful, and more than a little frustrating.  I've written again to Susanne and hope to hear from her, but haven't, yet.

So, having come this far, I guess I could use a primer on how to do this.  I could sure use the basic steps for accomplishing this!

Thank you in advance!

That's exactly how I would understand it Yoda - You're simply having a challenge perhaps with the words..
It's easy as far as I can understand it -

Create a Security role for the subscribers - which will have the content in there for them only to see
I'd call it WebSubscribers for this example

Create a new product
Further down page - see the word Subscription Role >>> Assign that Security role to WebSubscribers from the dropdown box next to the word Subscription Role.

Set the time for Subscription - in days - in the text box next to the word Subscription Period

If you want to go the depth of recurring billing - you need to RTFM a bit more - but in a nutshell  if you check the box that you want recurring billing, you then setup a schedule in the Host/Schedule tab and enter the [CatalooK.RecurringBill,CatalooKStore] text (copy and paste from the page, not here)

You can then assign if you want paypal to be the choice of recurring payment method, or use the advanced settings - but this is more involved.

So I understand what Susanne is telling you - but perhaps neglected where you'll find it - It's in the Products Page. 

Like any method of subscription you need to assign a role first  so that when you create the product and it's paid for, DNN knows what role to put them into after the transaction is done - and it's on these pages you would have your member content.

Does that help you?
You're just lucky - I'm working with Catalook at the moment -so found the information in front of me.
Nina Meiers

Nina, thank you.  I've followed the breadcrumbs you left for me and found my way! 

Now, I need to test the payment processing and see how to customize this to suit a web site registration need rather than a product-based shopping cart need.  Any tips would be gratefully received!

Steve

To make this better fit a site registration system, I need to change the headings in the CAT_Cart module.  Out of the box, they are:

Product ID
Product Name
Item code
Quantity
Price
Total
Item
Delete 

I want to make them something like

Subscriber ID
Registration Option
Item code
etc.

Any idea how I might go about doing that?

Steve

Just a quick follow-up.  Susanne sent me the instructions for changing the headings for the CAT_Cart module.  I'm posting them in case they will be of use to others who may find this thread:

Module CAT_LangSwitcher -> Select 'Edit Language Resources' from the module menu. Please find all informations in the admin manual.

Steve

Are you talking about recurring revenue subscriptions? I know a few people having issues with dnn3.012>> when the membershiprole from MS changed and the recurring billing is not working for those who are using payment gateways using silent postback urls - like MY CLIENT for example  - where the empty postbacks are causing problems of roles not being updated and payments not being set as being received.

How it affects recurring payment systems is that there is an issue with the scheduler returning an acknowledgement of the payment, hence the person doesn't get reminded to pay after the initial payment.  Susanne was working on that prior to Christmas.

I just got another build from Susanne yesterday and am going to test it - And I have a couple of other colleagues using Catalook, one is for a magazine subscription, and I'll know tomorrow whether it's worked or not.  The catch is I think it's for DNN 3.2 and up only, so that would mean the 3.87 build of Catalook should have addressed the issues found here.

So while it's not a direct yes or no, Yes Catalook does it, but not always successfully due to how some payment gateways behave, and it's acknowledged there was a problem and it was being addressed. 

There's NOTHING worse than finding this out at the end.. But great that Catalook is so well supported. I'll find the link to the site I know is using it for you to look at.

Nina Meiers