How to integrate to a paywall

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#1

New user, inquiring about feasibility.

My wordpress site was updated and now my single product sales quit working. There is no easy fix to this, platform vendor made major changes which broke everything. So I’m considering Snipcart. I want to get away from Wordpress, bad.

So I have a single landing page, which then goes to a checkout screen which gives the user a choice between Stripe and Paypal (this choice is really important).

When payment is successfully processed, the user get an email receipt, and they are automatically redirected behind the paywall for this session.

This is a digital download of a pdf (I host it at AWS, but would be willing to have it placed on Snipcart servers, for more seamless protection. However, I also provide a series of on-line videos behind this paywall. It is set up so users can login and return to redownload the pdf and / or watch more videos. It’s not a recurring subscription.

So I need to be able to capture the purchaser’s email address, zip / postal code, and auto create a password, so the user can get back in at a future time.

Would Snipcart work for this?

Thanks!

#2

Hi @gigaboy,

Snipcart itself works for almost everything you’re describing, but the biggest thing you’ll be missing is to have an auto-generated password. We don’t handle customer accounts. The only thing we do similar to that is to find repeating customers based on their email.

I hope this answer your question.

#3

Hello!
I have also been thinking about how to integrate Snipcart with a paywall system on our website.

It is possible to use webhooks to create a user in Wordpress when a subscription is created successfully (and then revoke permissions when it’s cancelled).

though the missing piece is to be able to use Snipcart login flows to login the mirrored WP user too.
is there any chance that in the future there’ll be an action like login.success sent via webhook?
or now that I am thinking, maybe Snipcart is setting up a cookie when the user signs in?

In addition to that, I think there should be an option to allow only logged-in users in the checkout. Basically the opposite of the option to allow only guests which is already available. That would also be necessary because you can’t allow guests subscribers if there is a paywall…

Looking forward to hear any feedback/suggestions about this matter! :slight_smile: