TOPIC: Any Thoughts on This?

All my events that I use allows users to register for Webinars. Each user pays $4.95 if they wish to attend. I will be recording the webinars and putting them online but I dont want to offer them for free. Ideally, I would like to set it up so that if someone want to watch webinar #1 because they missed the live viewing, they could pay like $2.00, and have access to the recording of that webinar and ONLY that webinar. If that same person wished to watch the first 5 webinars, the would pay $2.00 for each webinar and only be able to watch those webinars.

At first I was thinking for paid membership, but that would give them access to all videos. My next thought was some kind of shopping cart and when they make the payment, they receive the URL to that webinar, but whats to stop them for forwarding that URL on to everyone?

Any thoughts on how you would accomplish this task?

Thanks

Jason

This post reads like it's addressed to dthadmin, but as I'm killing time I thought I'd opine some stuff...

Sounds like we're talking about two different tiers of products. Tiers might be the wrong word, but basically two different products lines. One product line is for the live $4.95 webinars, and the other is for the archived $2 webinars.

The live stuff setup should be ready to go as-is. Nothing out of the ordinary for setup there.

The archived stuff *could* be setup ahead of time by creating a page/article where the archive's URL will be added to later (or added to at time of creation then delaying the "Registration Open Date" until after the Live webinar is scheduled to end).

For controlling how often/who accesses the archived shows a couple of ideas come to mind:

1) Restrict by IP address.

2) Make the archived registration page "private" which will require a valid login to get into it. Of course this doesn't totally lock things down, but it's a good start. You'll likely be able to record what username accessed it and probably an IP address can be captured via weblogs. The question then becomes, "with a little scripting, can you set up a process by which the script executes once an hour checking for webinar access by registered usernames, then removes that username's ability to access the URL again?"

Hmm, after pausing to think more about it, DT Register just doesn't seem to have that type of functionality built-in at present. Perhaps it will in the (near?) future. Until then, this product looks closest to what you're looking for (from what I can tell):
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... ions/13345

-soccerbum

soccerbum,

Thanks for taking the time on this post, you gave me the perfect solution. There are so many extension out there from Joomla that when I was doing a search, this component didnt come up. So thank you very much.

np! Happy to have helped.