OSE Membership™ 
Version
6.2.1 (last update on Jun 18, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
173
License
GPLv2 or later
Commercial
Type
Date Added
2 March 2009
A feature list can be found here:
http://www.opensource-excellence.com/shop/membership-subscription.html
OSE Membership Version 6.0.6 - 6.1.0
* Enhancement - Added Facebook Login function
* Enhancement - Improved default registration template
* Enhancement - Added a Red and Black CSS set for Gavick Pro Publisher 3rd Style
* Enhancement - Added an Orange CSS set for Shape 5 Cleanout Style
* Enhancement - Major code cleaning
Core Features:
* Content Access Control Functions
** Show Teaser Content
** Sequential Access Control
** Hide the article list completely to the member only
** Hides Menus and Modules after user logins
* Membership / Group Management functions
** Create either Free Membership Plans or Paid Membership Plans with different Payment Options
** Unlimited Membership Levels with different different access levels
** Different Payment Options for different Membership Plans
** Multiple payment gateways with Automation: PayPal, Paypal Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, BeanStream, Eway, VPCash, BBVA, ePay.dk, PayFast, 2Checkout, ClickBank, CCAvenue, USA ePay, IcePay, EBS, LiqPay, Realex
** Support Offline Payment
** Support one-off payments and recurring payments with flexible membership length
** Fixed Date Membership Plans
* Member Management Functions
** Add existing user to Membership / Create New Members
** View / Change membership status / start date / expiry date
* Comprehensive e-Commerce Functions
** Order management
** Customization email templates
** Coupon System
** Tax System
** Multiple Currency Shopping System
* Other functions
** Login redirection to a specific member menu
** Membership expiration notifications
** Affiliate software supported: iDefAffiliate and Post Affiliate Pro
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I now have 2 extensions from this company which I use on multiple sites and I have found that their support is unparallelled - I'm not sure these guys ever sleep! They will answer questions and give help and advice on anything even remotely related to their products. Nor do they make you feel like an idiot but patiently give you instructions to follow to get your sites working. I was moving from another subscription system to theirs during a J 2.5 migration and they ensured that it would work before charging for the product. They then fixed any problems and answered my numerous questions tirelessly to make sure their products worked to my satisfaction. As for OSE Membership I find it is fairly easy to use once you understand the basics and it does the job I need it to do!
I'll start by saying membership components aren't for the faint of hart, there's a lot involved and a lot that can go wrong. I have tried AEC, PayPlans, and a few others. OSE is a little complicated and there's a few buggy elements. However, no more than I experienced with the others. The support is what really sets them apart, they always respond to requests within 12 hours which, in my mind, makes them the best choice.
I have used OSE for 3 years and can't wait to dump it for a better product (going to try Membership Pro, by OSSolutions)
- Users have been getting 3 blank emails every month, instead of one expiration reminder, which they are supposed to receive. The support team tried and tried to fix this but basically kept saying, okay we did x,yz, so it shouldn't happen again. My frustrated users still get them!
- There are NUMEROUS problems and nuisances in the back end, like the Pending list and membership controls for the admin.
- Best of all, their staff deleted my entire content, thinking they were on my TEST site, when they were really working on the LIVE site. (They extended my membership for one year as an apology, which hardly made up for the hassle they put me through.)
- Other nagging problems have arisen in the past months. Subscriptions are paid, but marked in the backend as Expired, even though the dates are correct. (I extend the date by a single minute manually, and it reverts to Active. HUH?)
I think Shaun is quite responsive to support tickets (kudos to him), but they are clearly over their heads and over-extended.
- Users have been getting 3 blank emails every month, instead of one expiration reminder, which they are supposed to receive. The support team tried and tried to fix this but basically kept saying, okay we did x,yz, so it shouldn't happen again. My frustrated users still get them!
- There are NUMEROUS problems and nuisances in the back end, like the Pending list and membership controls for the admin.
- Best of all, their staff deleted my entire content, thinking they were on my TEST site, when they were really working on the LIVE site. (They extended my membership for one year as an apology, which hardly made up for the hassle they put me through.)
- Other nagging problems have arisen in the past months. Subscriptions are paid, but marked in the backend as Expired, even though the dates are correct. (I extend the date by a single minute manually, and it reverts to Active. HUH?)
I think Shaun is quite responsive to support tickets (kudos to him), but they are clearly over their heads and over-extended.
Owner's reply
Hi Geri
We looked back the ticket histories and found this is an issue reported long time ago. For the 'blank emails' issues, we have tried everything to find out the cause (which does not happen to any other client's website) but really cannot identify the issue and find out the root cause (we have turned off the notification functions already, and ensure if email does not have subjects or content will not be sent out, but failed to achieve this.). It might be related to your previous developers' customized JCS IPN file, which updates the members membership every month.
This is the same as the subscription update issue. The subscription profile you reported were mainly created from the previous subscription system in the Joomla website, and the customized JCS IPN file created by your previous developer is responsible to update the membership status correctly. We provided a very detailed investigation report on this as well.
We are sorry to hear that our service cannot satisfy you, and we will try our best to improve our service to ensure the service of higher quality will be delivered to all of our customers.
Yours sincerely
OSE Support Team
Very high quality product and the support team only adds to the value! Very impressed on the timely replies to support questions and the documentation wiki's are very helpful in setting up the product for our needs. Thank you OSE Team for making my job easier! You guys Rock!!!
I would just like to say that we have tried 3 different membership components, each of which are good to use in their own right, but OSE Membership is by far the best / most complete one that we have used. The service as well is very good, we were able to try out the entire component before buying and since have had all of our questions answered both quickly and correctly, thanks guys!
This is a great extension, that we used for an integration with their OS Property extension. We also are using their PayPal Payments Pro plugin. There are a lot of features with OS Membership, which is great. The coding of the extension, from a developer's standpoint, is nicely organized and commented. Very happy with my purchase. In addition, contacting the extension author for a tweak in the registration process between OS Membership and OS Property's Agent setup resulted in fast turnaround. This is a great extension, from a great Joomla extension developer.
This by far the most powerful extension for membership control that i've used, and the level of support that runs 24/7 is incredible. The support team is patient, and Shawn went the extra mile to solve my problems. Seriously, this has been money well spent and the folks at OSE have really set the bar high. Highly recommended!
Hardeep
Hardeep
Thanks for the extension. I would like to point out that the technical support is great and respectable. Even in midnight their technical support team helped me quickly.
OSE Membership is a powerful extension and provides many excellent features for subscription based websites. I requested a number of customizations and all of my questions were answered promptly and the extra functionality, which included an additional Payment Gateway, was added quickly and at reasonable cost.
Many thanks,
James Fletcher
Many thanks,
James Fletcher
The extension works as described and their is great documentation provided. The OSE team is extremely responsive to all questions and have solved any and all problems.
OSE Membership offers superior membership management capabilities and provide a great support service even resolving several queries over weekend! It is simple to install and configure. They also have a very helpfull in depth Wiki documentation. A real great extension.
I have been using OSE Membership for over 6 months now and it had been extremely stable. The OSE team is extremely responsive to all questions and have solved any and all problems, or customization needs I have had. The extension works as described and their is great documentation provided.
I didn't expect the world when I bought this but at least the basic functionality I needed it for and not more much which it couldn't deliver on. If you're used to a higher quality program such as CBSubs - this is far behind with most of it's features. A simple function like adding up the quantity for two items is too much for this to handle. Furthermore, the developer gave one shot at helping me then obviously wasn't going any further than what I could have done myself. In order to get anything other than a very basic for layout one would need to spend an outrageous amount on buying a feature table from them which really doesn't extend the look any further. My suggestion is to buy this if you need very basic membership and truly don't expect anything more than exactly what's documented which isn't very much. I do get it some credit for being a clean, simple design which is well appreciated. This makes me question their security suite as well. Again, with this company - you get exactly what's in the description and not a single thing more as reinforced to me by Shawn which also thought it'd be his business to sarcastically tell me how I should shop in the future after being nothing but nice to him.
Owner's reply
Hi Michael
You have your own specific requirements that our component cannot do and we do not think it is a general features to benefit to other users, so we do not add the feature and issue full refund to you without asking a question and our developer has helped you change things without any charges, what are we doing wrong? We leave this to the public. For the functionality, we do believe our component is quite poweful and stable compared to other membership software. Please note we only need what we have helped and offered can be appreciated and treated fairly.
Best regards
OSE team
We thoroughly researched the membership subscription components and chose OSE Membership. After using OSE Membership for about a year we couldn't be happier with our choice! We use this for an online printing site and offer "Free" and "Premier" accounts. The component is very flexible, tons of features, and allowed us to setup exactly how we needed. And with many components you have to do customizing to the template and such; not the case here, the stock install is ready to go and makes updating to new versions a breeze. Which that is another point, they regularly update the component adding new features and fine-tuning the current features. Expect many updates during your OSE subscription period.
The component is 5 stars but wish we could show 10 stars for support! Over the past year we had support questions using their great support ticket system and they were always right on it and pleasant to work with!
We've used Joomla since 2006 and we know a top-notch component, and this is one. Great job and strongly recommended by veteran Joomla users!
The component is 5 stars but wish we could show 10 stars for support! Over the past year we had support questions using their great support ticket system and they were always right on it and pleasant to work with!
We've used Joomla since 2006 and we know a top-notch component, and this is one. Great job and strongly recommended by veteran Joomla users!
OSE Membership not only offers superior membership management capabilities but delivers on its promise of support, resolving a query over weekend. Based on their terrific support we will gladly continue our use of OSE product ranges.
A bit higher price on this one but boy you get what you pay for!
Amazing back-end, lots of options, considerable easy to work with, great integration with other components (love the built in option to pay for subscription through VM) and has great documentation.
Had some minor problems because I have overlooked something in the manual but support was quick and helpful.
This is a must have choice for subscriptions.
Amazing back-end, lots of options, considerable easy to work with, great integration with other components (love the built in option to pay for subscription through VM) and has great documentation.
Had some minor problems because I have overlooked something in the manual but support was quick and helpful.
This is a must have choice for subscriptions.
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