Sure stilltesting so thats not a problem but I have to make sure I have the best combination for plan settings.

Can you tellme is there a way to set up the plans so that when a membership expires or a member decides to unsubscribe member automatically drops to the free membership or even just a registered user status.

Currently if the membership ends (either by unsbscribing or expiry) they can not even login, system is asking to resubscribe.

I have 3 plans setup 2 premium and 1 basic. is this the way to do it or is there a setting somewhere which allows members to become registered member only when membership expires.

I am trying different options but feel like going in a loop.

I think it's getting there, it's incredible that there are so many possibilities.

After I changed the setting, allow free registered users to yes and create subscriptions also for free lifetime plans to no, I deleted all my test users (I think this is very important because if you leave them even though you create new subscriptions they are looking at the old subscription plans) Then I created 4 plans:

Plan 1 Free lifetime exclusive default public upgrade no
Child Plan 2 Paid exclusive default registered upgrade yes

Plan 3 Free lifetime exclusive default public upgrade no
Child Plan 4 Paid exclusive default registered upgrade yes

with this combination Plan 1 and 3 can see all tabs with limitations. Plan 2 and 4 can see what they are supposed to see and when paid membership expires they go back to Plan 1 and Plan 3 respectively.

There is one issue I noticed though, when I tried to control access to url under integration > extensions > by URL parts, it protects the page but it doesn's suggest which plan to select or upgrade, in order to see that page. The page has heading subscription options and the rest is blank. But if I was to use protect by module or by component it displays the available membership options.

Is it a known bug or is there a setting I have missed?

Thanks