The backend features of this component are better than the frontend features. If a users subscription expires they are merely sent an email. Its easy for an administrator to extend their subscription but there is no facility for a user to extend their subscrition automatically. There is also no facility for adding users to a payment in the front-end, again it is easily implemented in the back end by an administrator. I modified the paypal plugin so that different curriencies could be used. The documentation for using paypal plugin with paypal sandbox ommitted a change that needed to be made in order for this to work properly - I sent numerous messages to support with all responses refering me to documentaion - which was frustrating since I had completed everything according to documentation. However I did a receive a daily response to each of my messages.

I spent a bit of time checking out subscription products and eventually settled on Ambra. The product is stylish, looks good and works exactly as described. You can see it in action on Dioscouri page. So, no surprises.

The thing that really sets all of Dioscouri's products apart is the service. If you have a question - pre sales or post sales - you get an near instant email response. You do pay for that post sales with a six month or annual service subscription, but it was worth the price to me be sure the product would do what I needed. Especially when I want to be certain that my subscriptions are being managed properly. Once you take your site to a commercial level and are earning an income you need the support and assistance you get from these guys.

This component is good. I asked some question by dioscouri's forum about some doubt.
The problem is that, in this moment, this extension haven't a search engine files in the file manager. If i put a lot of files in a category, the users will have some problems to find that file.
Also it could have the pay to download system if i want sell single file and not subscription.
I hope that this extension will be complete very soon.
However the dioscouri's support is great.

Ambra is an excellent software. While not perfect, it's code is more on the clean side for the most part than not. At least for what code I've changed and altered. Like most of this companies product, it's more a full fledged program bundled for Joomla and not that of a hack or set of hacks to do the job.

Anyone that care to take a look at the code, or the structure, will find a fairly large underlying work and programming effort.

A big thanks for this program as it was much needed addition.

5 stars for the code, 10 stars for the professional manner in which this company operates. Dioscouri sets the bar for professionalism in both programming effort as well as their business model and support practices.

A best of class component ! Save hours of experimentation and just 'do' it, - a sweet investment.

Well done Rafael & team!

Ambra Subscriptions is a great package, robust and very well supported. I build websites for clients and have tried all sorts of subscription packages, but this is the one I will use going forward.

It is not simple to set up, but the documentation is clear and if you follow it, you will have no problems.

Used alone, Ambra Subscriptions requires you to tag all the pages you want to restrict. In combination with their sister product, Juga, you can restrict access to any Joomla entity using the menu system without special tags.

Support is excellent, but the clear documentation makes it unnecessary except for true technical problems.

I first started to use another extension for paid access because it had one particular feature no one else offers but after awhile I realized that it was not the right choice for me. I found out recently this new version of Ambra added the ability to pay first then you get registered dynamically on your site which is one BIG important feature to have.

The whole component here is well thought out and very easy to work with once you spend some time going through the setup instructions and not all cluttered. The file management system is by far much better than the one I was using (which was buggy) and offers a nice clean front-end.

Overall, I recommend you try Ambra Subscriptions because in addition to this one, their other extensions will greatly add to your site's enhancements (depending on your needs). This one was perfect for my new site and definitely a keeper. Good job!

I bought this extension with the other excellent Dioscouri extension: JUGA. I had to adapt AMBRA Subscriptions for it to fit the specific needs of my website. Despite the numerous amount of ticket that I filled, they were alway quick to respond, and most of all patient. They even correct some small mistakes in a plugin that I wrote to modify the behavior of AMBRA for Free! What a team!

Their extensions are well documented, although I would have appreciated some kind of API, to know for example all the events that are fired, by the extensions.

Thank you again for the great Job

This product served our needs well. Kudos to the developers for a well designed product and speedy support. If you are trying to charge for subscriptions or software on your Joomla! site this product will make it easy.

Being new to site design and Joomla, I've made a lot of mistakes and goofs in the past week or so while building a website with various extensions I've tested out.

I misread a few things, missed a LOT of things, and after paying for a subscription, suddenly was not sure AMBRA was what I needed-

The team at Discouri were super-fast answering all my questions, friendly, and patient as well.

Between them and the excellent documentation on the site, not only did I find out that yes, it would do, with a little help, the specific things I needed it to, but they gave me all the instructions and plugins I'd need to boost the core extension a little to optimize it for my site needs.

Between the customer service and the extension itself, I found AMBRA to be not just worth every penny, but a bargain.

Excellent support!
I have to admit that alot of the difficulties that i've had were caused by my unfamiliarity with the joomla CMS and all of this component, but the Ambra's support center, does a great job and this in itself makes discouri a great company to purchase from.
Thanks Guys!!!!!

We are a web development company and use the product for our site and we really enjoyed building the website with this software. We modified the base-install template for Ambra and we added several new fields and some tool-tip features. The code was well written which made the development of our customers website easy and fun. We also modded the Ambra to use VirtureMart for checkout because we needed to use PaypalPRO. Good work Dioscouri!

What I always look for is great features and very important, good support from developers. Support for customers really doesn't get better then from these guys, they included some features I suggested so they are native now.

As far as new component, for being as new as it is and because I am using it with another product they have JUGA, it really is a very good blend. Offers me maximum fleksibility what to restrict to whome and to set content so that it shows different for each different subsribers or usergroups.

There are still some small issues that sometimes come up, but when they do developers do their best to help you and solve them.

I am using this component now for my site which has only one membership plan for downloadable files and only using paypal. And for that use-case it is perfect.

But I wouldnt say that the version now is recommendable for other use-cases since there is still a lot of stuff missing. I know you may enhance its functionality by implementing some plugins for it, but not everyone is a programmer and for that price it should ship with some more built in stuff. But dont get me wrong, it's still awesome!

My biggest concerns are just about the user experience: A user needs to be logged in order pay for a membership and leave the plan list for that, having no visible paypal button.

You really should work on that issue, since one may loose some people who are interested in purchasing but get lost in registering, logging in and finally AGAIN visting the page for subscription but this time with visible paypal button.

Except that it's great. Thumbs up!

After looking for hours at all the options I finally picked AMBRA for my paid subscriptions. I must admit I was very disappointed at first. The instructions were limited in detail and I had to wait until tech support was available to help the next morning. It took several hours of tech support working with me to get it all worked out (turns out you can not run AMBRA code in articles that are using page breaks. In the nice people at AMBRA helped fix the problems and it is up and running now. I would like to see coupons added, but overall it is a good component and does what it says.

First of all, I have to mention that It wasn't the easiest installation I have done of a component. But that does not had to do with the component itself but with misconfiguration of my apache server as well as joomla itself. The support team corrected all the problems on my joomla installation. Actually what they did is that they corrected my mistakes and helped me to overcome the problems that were arising due to misconfiguration.
Now regarding whether the component actually does what it says. The best way to check it is through their site!! Actually their site is a live demo of their products in production. If you like it buy it. For me, this is what I was looking for.

They have excellent support via their own ticket system. I had issues setting it up as I found the navigation of the component to be a bit confusing, but I contacted them and they went into my site and started to set it up for me. Once I saw how it worked, it was easy to set up the rest of the component.

good support is everything :)

This is a great component. Really easy user interface. I had a small paypal issue that was fixed in just minutes. Great support.

This is the solution our company has been looking for. Easy installation and I was able to create subscriptions in minutes.

There was a minor hiccup with my server configuration, however the support was outstanding and quickly answered (and solved) my issue.

Highly recommended.