Plugin Documentation

MT Subscriptions and Credits

MT Subscriptions and Credits. Extend your websites capabilities and allow membership and subscriptions for your shop! MT Subscriptions and Credits is easy to use, easy to customize, and works with any theme.

Prerequisites

MT Subscriptions and Credits is fully compatible with Modeltheme's iBid Multivendor Auctions WordPress theme. All the required plugins, in order for MT Subscriptions and Credits to work properly, are included with the theme for free including regular updates.

If you are planing to use it with another theme, you must require:

WordPress
WooCommerce
WooCommerce Simple Auctions
One Multivendor plugin : Dokan or WCFM (compatible with their Free versions)

Some features of the Plugin

For Vendors

Can purchase Subscriptions with no. of Products;
Subscription have limited or unlimited Products;
Set Package validity;
New "MT Subscription" tab in My Account;
Compatible with Dokan & WCFM dashboard;
Validity can be for specifies no. of days or unlimited;
Added to My Account dropdown current Subscription information;

For Customers

Can purchase Subscriptions with no. of Credits;
Subscription have limited or unlimited Credits;
Set Package validity;
New "MT Subscription" tab in My Account;
Added confirmation message on fist bidding;
Compatible with Dokan & WCFM dashboard;
NEW to Auctions, required credits on first bid to verify customer;
Added to My Account dropdown current Subscription information;

General Features

New Product Type : MT Subscription;
Create Subscription Packages;
Compatible with any theme
Easy Installation & Setup
Extensive Documentation
Easy to use Settings Panel
Quick Start XML (for imports)
Compatible WPBakery page builder
Compatible Elementor page builder

Plugin Installation

Log into your WordPress dashboard
Navigate to Plugins > Add New
Click on the "Upload Plugin" button and select mt-auction-subscriptions-and-credits.zip
Click Install Now
Click Activate

Settings Panel

After completing the steps in the previous section, the Auction Subscriptions for WooCommerce menu is now available and displayed on the admin dashboard.

Go to admin dashboard > MT Plugins > Auction Subscriptions for WooCommerce.

Enable Auction Subscription -- Select "Yes" in order to allow the Subscription functionalities to be applied to your website.

NOTE : Is required to check these options before you try to use them on your website, as they are set by default "Disabled".

After saving the settings on the Auction Subscriptions for WooCommerce menu it is required to go on Settings and reset the permalinks. The way you do that is the following:

Click on Setings from the left side panel.
From the list named Common Settings select any other option that the one that is already selected.
Cick Save.
Click back on the option that was selected before.
Click Save again.

Subscription

How to create a Subscription product

Go to Products > Add New ;
Type in Your Title and Content;
Set Product data to MT Subscription;
Add a price to the package from General tab;
Go to MT Subscription tab;
Pack Validity - set no. of days (ex. 60) or leave empty to be Unlimited;
Select Method - "Number of products" for Vendor packages and "Credits" for Customer packages;
Select Method - "Number of listings" with two Post types to choose from: "mt_listing" and "mt_events";
No. of products/credits - set no. (ex. 60) or leave empty to be Unlimited;
Save;

Where to check available Subscriptions?

By default, once the Auction Subscriptions for WooCommerce is enabled, a new My Account tab will be available. Check My Account > MT Subscription, this is the home for all the informations of your purchased Subscription Package. In case you do no have such a Subscription, it recommends packages based on your current site role.

If you are a Vendor

Add one of the Subscriptions to cart;
Go to Checkout and Place order;

If you are a Customer

Assign Subscriptions to users

By Product Order

Once the administrator of the website receives the order with the Subscription, simply check WooCommerce > Orders and set the order to "Completed".

NOTE: if the order is set to "Cancelled" after, this will deselect the Subscription of the buyer.

After the accepted order, the Subscription is assigned to the buyer.

From admin dashboard

There is another available method, by manually assigning a package to a user. Check Users > All Users > edit the user.

NOTE: There are 4 allowed subscriptions that can run in the same time,so if two packages that has the same Method (Products, Credits, Events, Listings) only the most recent will be set a Subscription.

Adding Products

Our plugin is compatible with the dashboard from Dokan and WCFM,so any restrictions for adding new products are available in their Product tab list.

You will see one of these warning message in case of :

No subscription were purchased -- You do not have any subscriptions purchased. Please check My Account > Subscription to see available options;
Subscription with unlimited products -- You can publish unlimited products;
Subscription with limited products -- Remaining products you can publish :'';
Expired Subscription -- Your subscription have expired, please renew it from My Account > Subscription;
Subscription with no products -- You no longer have remaining product to publish, please renew your subscription from My Account > Subscription;

NOTE : If the subscription runs out / no products left to add / is not assigned to user , is not possible to add products from the dashboard. Both for Dokan and WCFM.

NOTE : Everytime a product was set to "Published" the amount of products will be updated with -1.

Set Bid Credits for Auctions

Vendors View (Dokan or WCFM) - With this option, you can add a credit number by which a buyer will be cost by bidding on your product.

Set a number -- It will decrease the bidders total credits with this amount only the first time bidding on a product;
Not set number -- Everyone can bid on the product;

Administrator user role view (Admins can also set the necessary credits number):

Bidding on Auctions with Credits

Anytime there is an amount of credits set to bid on a product and the user does not have a Subscription purchased is not allowed to bid.

Otherwise, if enough credits are available to met the bid amount set it would be allowed to bid until the bid credit is greater than the bidder's remaining credits.

NOTE : The number of remaining credits are available in the My Account dropdown or MT Subscription tab.

What are MT Listing / MT Events Subscriptions?

These kind of packages are an extended functionality for MT Listings Manager plugin, included in many Modeltheme's listings themes. The packages will only work with these posts types : "mt_listing" and "mt_events" , which are already included in MT Listings Manager plugin.

If MT Listing Subscription have been assigned to an user, it will allow him to send a number / unlimited listings aproved by the administrator. In case, the subscription was cancelled, expired or the limit has been met, an warning message will be set to the "Add a listing" page and will not be able to send through the form.

NOTE : The same apply with the post type "mt_events" and the "Add an event" page.

When the Subscription ends

If the current Subscription has expired or no more products/credits are available, the user is recommended to puchase a new Package from the MT Subscription tab so the validity and number will be reseted.

NOTE : A subscription can only be cancelled by the orders status or admin dashboard.

Shortcode : MT Subscriptions

If you want to list the available Packages, other than the MT Subscription tab, add the following to a new page:

[subscriptions-shortcode number_of_columns="3"]