Managing Users

From AMember Pro Manual

Contents 1 What is a Member (User)? 2 What happens to expired members? 3 Adding Users/Members 4 Managing Users 5 Finding Members

What is a Member (User)?

A Member is a user of your site who is registered in the aMember script (usually via http://www.yoursite.com/amember/signup.php ). Each member has a unique login ID (username) and password.

What happens to expired members?

While expired members will no longer have access to protected content, they are NOT deleted from the database when their membership expires. This is important, as it means that any data associated with expired members is still available for reporting and history purposes. There are other advantages, for example it means that expired members can login to renew subscriptions and can also, optionally, be included in emails sent by the administrator.

Adding Users/Members

Before adding members you must have at least one product to subscribe them to. If you have not already done so return to the Managing Products of this guide and set up a test product now.

To add a member, or user:

• Open the aMember Admin Control Panel.
• Click Add User in the left menu.
• The Add User Screen opens
• The add a user form is pretty self explanatory. Fill in the details for a test user (you can delete this user later).
• Click Save and you will see a message: Information has Been Saved.
• Click the Continue link, then you will be redirected to User Payments page
• Using Quick Add form, add a subscription to customer. By default, both start and expiration dates are set to today, but it can be easily changed.

Managing Users

You can edit both the user information and any member payments at any time from the Admin Control Panel. In addition to User Information and User Payments/Subscriptions on the top of the member record page there are two other links

Actions 

delete a member, resend the signup email to a member or merge member records.

Access Log 

lists recent access by the member to aMember and to other member areas that use PHP protection

Finding Members

aMember makes it very easy to find your members, either individually or by a number of different criteria.

• Click Browse users on the left Menu to browse through your members, listed by username.
• Click Search Users on the left menu to search through the user database using any of the various criteria listed there.
• Enter part of username, name or email into the input box in left menu and press Enter key

Note: Once a user has been added as a member, they will be able to access their member page at http://www.yoursite.com/amember/member.php , using the username and password in their member record. However adding a user as a member does not give access to any content, you must subscribe user (add a payment).