The website in question has 3 primary aspects:
A public Side (with content that anyone can view)
A Paid Members-Only Side (where CB Subs will handle access)
An Online Store that’s open to the public and members (Virtuemart handles carting and payment)
Mistakenly, I thought I could just restrict access to the member’s only areas by menu using Joomla’s native ACL. This logic goes south when a person uses the store and Virtuemart automatically assigns them to the ‘registered’ access level. If I could figure out how to force VM to assign shoppers to ‘public front-end’ this might have worked.
Then comes a problem with Virtuemart and the silent checkout option which gathers a lot of the same information that CB would. When setup this way a shopper will breeze through the checkout process and will skip CB altogether, leaving a registered user in the system with just an e-mail and username (that match). I’ve read that then when this shopper decides to become a member, CB Subs will reject their e-mail because it’s already in the system!
I can’t believe this setup is that unusual so there must be an ideal way to configure both extensions to play nice but I can’t find the answers so I’ve started this thread. Thanks in advance for the replies!