Can registration be free?

[osborne]

Is there a way to make registration free without sending a registrant to a page that asks them to pay $0.00?

[jmacgreg]

Hi Martin,

You can set it up so that users register with your site to view content (see Website Management Step 2.5), but you can't as of yet create a 'free' registration. The workaround of course is as you posit: creating a registration that costs 0.00. This however isn't semantically correct, and you will run into problems if you don't use the manual registration method. What are your thoughts on the following solution (which I can post as a feature request shortly): when creating a registration type, allow for it to be flagged as a 'free' type (probably by checking a box) -- any types thus flagged will sidestep the payment process but still be listed as a registration.

Cheers,
James

[osborne]

Hi James. Your proposed solution sounds exactly right to me! Thanks.

Martin

[marcob]

I have the same problem which has been highlighted in this thread. I would like one of the
registration types to be "free" and not just for 0 pounds. More precisely I would like someone
to be able to specify that they want to register now but pay "on site" (but a free registration would
allow us me to have this option).

The answer to the original question sounded promising, in the sense that it seemed that this
option may be coming in a future release. Is that so? I mean is this actually recorded as a desired
feature? And, finally, any idea when this feature may appear?

Thanks,

Marco

[jmacgreg]

Hi Marco,

This is in the bug queue, but I'm not sure when it'll be addressed: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4054. It's flagged against OCS 2.3, but may possibly be deferred. Please feel free to CC yourself to that report, and to add any further comments you may have.

Cheers,
James

[jmacgreg]

One more thing -- there's a forum thread with a solution listed in that bug report.

Cheers,
James

[h220]

I successfully applied this patch, but have some problems using it.
When registering a 'free' registration type the registration is correctly processed, but the user is sent to an error message telling her to try again. This is of course not possible because she's already registered. Any workarounds for this?

-gisle

[jmacgreg]

Hi gisle,

I replicated this, and posted a bug report here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4841. Please feel free to CC yourself to that report for future updates; this should also be fixed in the upcoming OCS 2.3 release.

Cheers,
James