Emerald has its own years proof universal algorithm to restrict ANY Joomla extension without ANY need for special integration.
And in Emerald 9 we went even further and added restriction adapters that allow fine tune restriction rules for desired extensions if the universal algorithm is not enough.
Frontend Extension
Emerald is a frontend extension. It means that you can create plans, manage subscriptions, create coupons or any other actions that is classically managed in the backend, all in the frontend.
Extensive Dashboard
This is the place to start. It is designed for daily use.
From the dashboard you can quickly access:
- Quick icons to manage plans, subscriptions, coupons or see analytics;
- 10 last sales with state, user, gateway and gateway ID;
- Subscriptions that was not activated. Sometimes user what to pay online or payment gateway verification fails. Here you can instantly activate subscription as soon as you get payment confirmation;
- Last 30 days sale progress.
Analytics
Javascript/HTML/CSS based reporting system will show you a lot of useful data.
Flexible Plans
Emerald will let you create the most flexible subscription plans possible.
Actions
Actions are small Emerald plugins that may trigger some code on subscription successful activation and on deactivation or expire. You can add as many actions to a subscription plan as you want.
Payment Gateways
With Emerald you get one free offline payment gateway. This gateway simply creates an inactive subscription, sends email to you and email to the customer with offline payment instructions like bank account details for wire transfer, address to send cheque or details for WesternUnion. Then you manually activate the subscription when funds are received.
Emerald is integrated with the most popular payment gateways like:
- PayPal;
- 2Checkout;
- Authorize.net;
- Worldpay (with futurepay);
- Skrill (former moneybookers);
- Google checkout;
- VCS (Virtual Card Service).
- PayFast.
For Russian customers special set of gateways:
- RBK;
- Webmoney;
- Interkassa;
- Robokassa;
- Kazkom.
Multilingual
Emerald all it's plugins, gateways, actions and restriction adapters have language files for translation. Wee took care that every string got there. Even email alerts for plans can be translated through the Joomla language overrides system.
In addition you can use the great Transifex service to translate it into your own language. Here is the emerald Transifex project. Join, create your language if it doesn't exist and translate.
Solid Cobalt 8 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.
Or use drip content Cobalt field to release articles based on schedule or homework confirmation.
Emerald + Cobalt = Ultimate membership solution.
Cross Planning
Cross planning is a unique mechanism with advanced logic but made so simple you will quickly understand.
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.
MUA (Multiple User Access)
This amazing enterprise feature allows users to share purchased subscription with limited number of other users. For example a company can purchase a plan but they want their staff to get access to restricted content each one under their own accounts but using same subscription.
Other Important Highlights
- View article intro but protect full view for core Joomla articles restrictions;
- After successful purchase land the user to the page he was trying to access;
- Subscription history for members to check their subscription status;
- Invoice generator for purchased subscriptions;
- Create subscription manually;
- Every plan may have its own set of payment gateways with different settings.
Coupons
Very flexible discount coupon system.
- Create percentage discount coupons;
- Create fixed amount discount coupons;
- Create gift certificates for fixed amounts;
- Bind coupons to plans;
- Bind coupons to users;
- Limit coupons total time to be used;
- Limit coupons times to be used per user;
- Batch coupons generation;
- Set coupon automatic expiration date;
- Set coupon availability start date.
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Subscription during registration
Emerald has most flawless subscription process during registration. One click subscription solution.