Hello Patrice:

You can absolutely do this, but it will require a tiny bit of development to make it happen. First, you'd use the reward points feature and repurpose it for this use case.

https://support.upendoven...118766-Reward-Points

You'd want to have a product that is called whatever these credits are called, and the quantity would be the number of points they're ordering. You'd also have reward points enabled and update the settings, localization, and views to correctly display the point system name and branding.

Whenever a customer purchases the points product, the quantity and/or the dollar amount would end up directly relating to the number of points the customer has access to use during checkout.

There will also be a few other things that you'd have to do. For example, you'd want to think through whether the customer goes through the standard checkout experience when purchasing products with credits (reward points) or not, and what additional work with it require for your team either way. You'd also likely have a custom user experience that's different in browsing and purchasing that's different between the credit products and the reward points product.

Finally, you'd also want to implement a user experience to show and/or notify customers of when their points need to be used before they expire. You can use a combination of a scheduled job and viewset updates to accomplish this. The database schema already includes the transaction date, so you can use that to determine the expiration date as well. The scheduled job would then not only change the user experience, but also expire points.

Will, can you please explain in an understandable way how you do it? In babysteps OR a video!

Awesome, thanks Will, we will let you know how it went if client excepts the project.

@Kurt: I don't think Will is going to put together a step by step manual for you. Get to know the software, get your hands dirty, then ask specific questions later. If you're not a developer, find one - otherwise this is not for you. Cheers.

I was going to reply similar, that the Rewards system within Hotcakes would be perfect for a points-based membership system.

You could also do some custom development to create managers and a way for you to assign points to users in a separate database table and have those as items you purchase within the cart such as a 1000 points product... then you can keep track of adding/subtracting points to the users values in this table. My company's approach is to combine Hotcakes and XMod Pro for development projects like this.

Otherwise, I would wonder about the points aspect, perhaps there's another more simple way to approach too? You can very easily do subscription length and role level based management through the CMS and therefore within Hotcakes too. You may have your mind set already on points, but I might also encourage you to consider perhaps pricing level discounts (which HC Price Groups and the CMS Roles can also do for you) where the user pays different levels for items, or per item after a base monthly or annual subscription... plenty of ways to approach the idea.