12. Advantages non-Joomla solutions
• Easy set up
• Many payment providers/solutions, no set-up
• Multilingual sign up pages
• Local currencies
• Focused on conversion
• Advanced reporting
13. Advantages Joomla solutions
• Data on your server
• All code under your control
• Easy theming (in most cases...)
• Connectivity to other extensions
• No API/XML/etc... connection needed
• Less fees per sale (but more work)
19. Joomla 1.5 or Joomla 1.7
Joomla! 1.5 OR Joomla! 1.7
End of Life: April 2012 End of Life: February 2012
20. Joomla 1.5 or Joomla 1.7
Joomla! 1.5 OR Joomla! 1.7
End of Life: April 2012 End of Life: February 2012
UPGRADE
Joomla! 2.5
Release: January 2012
End of Life: November 2013
27. Connect with other extensions
• You sell memberships to grant access to...?
• Downloads
• Forum
• Content
• Photo’s
• Support
• anything else
• Write down all needed functionality
• Is there a connection between membership extension
and needed functionality (or can you create it easily)?
29. TAX rules
• Business based in the European Union with a VIES-
registered VAT number?
• Outside EU: No VAT
• Inside EU: No VAT (customer pays VAT to local authorities)
• Inside EU & no business with VIES-registered VAT number: VAT
• Customer from your country: Always VAT
• Hardly any Joomla extension capable to apply these
rules correctly
• Most only offer fixed VAT on sales
https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/akeeba-subscriptions/tax-rules.html
31. Design of the extension
• Great if the extension provides a nice layout...
• ... but that’s not too difficult to change!
• So go for the engine and forget the design (if possible)
33. Check the code
• Is the extension mambo code but “working” on Joomla
1.7...
• ... or is it a nice clean MVC extension following the
coding standards of Joomla 1.7?
• MVC extensions are a big plus: easily change the
output with templates overrides without hacking the
extension
35. Check the project
• Who is the developer?
• How is the extension support?
• Documentation available?
• Still in development?
• Any future roadmap?
• Feedback/suggestions welcome?
36. And the winner is...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33498942@N04/6009639079/
37. ... up to you!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273913966/in/photostream/
49. No Invoice in Akeeba Subscriptions by default, but easy by creating another template view & using power
of Nooku Framework (Akeeba Subscriptions is using Nooku)
