World most advanced Joomla!® membership extension

Unique Architecture Works With Any Extension Without Need Of Integration

One of the most excited news about Emerald 8 is that it works with any extension. 8 years of maturity turned Emerald 8 into most flexible and primer membership system with any feature you can ever imagine.

4 Main Subscription Types

  • Component Type - Create a subscription for any section of any component. Restrict article submission in K2, article view in ZOO or file download in docMan. No matter want you want to protect simple site page view or some action on your site, Emerald 8 will do it with ease.
  • Category Type - Restrict access to single or multiple categories (entire section) of core Joomla® content
  • User Individualization - Bind articles to Users. For example, you create a User type subscription, create an article and put a flag {EMBOT USER=234}, where 234 is a user ID. This means that this article can only be read / accessed by user with id 234 and with an active subscription of type "User Individualization". Examples: individual fitness plans or diet programs.
  • Article Individualization - Control separate articles. For example, create an "Article Individualization" plan and note its ID. In the article(s) you want to protect insert  {EMBOT SUBSCRIPTION=5}, where 5 is an ID of the subscription. Now this article can be read only by those who subscribed to the plan with ID 5.

Online and Offline Payments

  • Easily extendible plugin based system
  • You can set different payment configuration or account for every plan
  • Automatically immediate access after payment
  • Some payment gateways support recurring payments
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  • Offline payment plugin may be configured to get paid by checks, wire transfers or just to receive email for future payment discussion
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Cross Planning

Cross planning is a unique mechanism to which can change subscription plan price depending on plans user already purchased. Or change plans availability. Or gift some plans for free on special plans purchase and many more plans dependencies.

MUA (Multiple User Access)

This awesome feature for corporate access. Customers after purchase subscription can grant access to purchased content to other limited number of users. For example company purchased but they want their staff to get access to restricted content each one under their own accounts but using same subscription. So subscribers add users who will be granted the same subscription for free.

Other Great Features

  • Flexible coupon discount system
  • JoomFish Multi-Language support
  • View article intro but protect full view
  • Limit access by time period
  • After purchase get to restricted page user wanted to see
  • Subscription plan discount on second purchase
  • Limit on amount of times subscription can be used
  • Invisible subscription plans
  • Front-end user subscription history
  • Zero price subscription plans
  • Automatically grant to new or old users
  • Assign user subscription manually
  • Categorize subscription plans
  • Show one plan or few plan layouts
  • Children subscriptions within parent plan
  • Alert admin on new subscription
  • Alert subscriber with instructions
  • Alert subscriber on expiry

And many, many more... If you do not find here something you need just tell us!

Deep Cobalt 7 Integration

This will allow you everything you can imagine. Restrict article submission, editing, extending, making featured, view or display. Restrict just some fields from submission, edit, view or display. Some fields have additional integration to protect downloads, picture views or video stream. Emerald + Cobalt = Ultimate membership solution.

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How it works

After installing and configuring the component any user who tries to read a commercial article or instigate a protected action like submit an item without proper registration or without having an appropriate active subscription will be prompted with a login form. After the login the user will be redirected to the article if they have the appropriate subscription plan. Otherwise they will be prompted with the option to purchase a subscription plan. In turn, if the user purchases the subscription then they will gain access to the article.

Note! There is no subscription during registration available. But nice emulation with step-by-step subscription.

Why there is no subscription during registration?

There are number of strong reasons why it is not implemented.

  1. Possibility to use any means of registration. Register through hikashop, easyExtended, CB and JomSocial etc...
  2. Usually you have 3 type of content on your site. For public, for registered and for paid members
  3. On pay-for-registration models a user is usually deleted after subscriptions expire. In step-by-step registration only access to protected items expire and the user may purchase another subscription without completing a new registration process
  4. Users may purchase multiple plans unlike only one during registration

There is another very important strategic reason. It is very hard to get someone to pay nowadays. So you start with giving user free content, then content for registered users stimulate user to get registered and then you offer paid content. This is technique of "Involving" user. It is much less possible that user immediately purchase on your site then if he slowly go from guest through registered user to paid member.