Testimonials

05 April 2009

Testimonials

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CBSubs^TM is already in use on many websites and we are happy to share with you some of the 'success' stories:

Our service offering needed a powerful "subscription" and "membership" type function. We looked at all the available GPL and Commercial products on the market that semi-fit our needs. They all lacked in one way or another, in meeting our needs. Which quite simply was a registration system that allowed us to charge for subscriptions, restrict content and allow our community a 'single-sign on'. NOTHING we found met that need except CB Subs.

CB Subs is one of the best extensions for Community Builder AND Joomla I have seen. It is very stable, easy to use and install. It does have a small learning curve, but this is in part do to the flexible nature of the product. As I can see there are nearly infinite combinations of products, services and subscriptions you can offer.

I strongly recommend CB Subs for your next membership or subscription based project. Don't mess around with the other extensions, do it professionally and right - get CB Subs.

SalvusSystem.Com
Tom Canavan

I can only recommend Community Builder to anyone that is looking for an easy and yet sophisticated way to build a community driven portal or community hub. Community Builder is developed and maintained by a professional team of experts. Even though the software is highly complex and flexible it runs absolutely bug free with a proven stability track record.

The brand new Community Builder Subscription System brings the core product to the next level and transforms your website into a fully driven e-commerce platform. We use this extension and the plug-in on our production live site. The system, once set-up, is unbelievable in its use as you can simply do anything with your community that you imagine to do.

If your are serious with your e-commerce website and you are looking for a product that is (1) stable and reliable, (2) flexible and customizable, (3) maintained, supported and easy to use and extend, then Community Builder and the new subscription system is the best choice.

www.showcast.de
Ivo Downes | Master of Business Studies
Director | SC Models (Model Promotion Agentur)

I started using an early beta of CBSubs^TM in 2008. Installation was simple, and updates have always been flawless. I have a pretty non-standard "subscription" business - a farm, and CBSubs^TM made it easy for me to enable my customers to register for their plans, pay online, and upgrade. The record-keeping is great too. I created an issue when I changed my PayPal primary email address, and it was easy to determine who hadn't paid using the CBSubs^TM back-end interface. I am using CBSubs^TM again in 2009, and off to a great start!

www.Gracefultech.com
Ken Lyle

I tried free ACL and subscription programs in hope of integrating with my CB installation. They required hacks to my Joomla install, seemed complicated to configure and didn’t offer all of the things that I found myself wishing for. Not that the free components should offer it all but if the free versions were as such, I figure that the paid versions would be even more so. I concluded that if I was about to pay for such a utility then CB Paid Subs would make the most sense as it would obviously completely integrate with my CB installation by default and, having spent a lot of time developing and becoming comfortable with it, it was an easy choice. The plugin is amazing and the result has not let me down. Working through the set up was easy and intuitive. I have been able to move forward with the project that I've been working on with complete confidence!

client.accountantswebdesign.ca
Tom Kenyon
Partner/Developer

In 2008 I started a fully managed Joomla website service called Simplweb. I wanted to make Joomla easier for non-technical users. We were asked by many customers to create a membership package that could allow paid subscriptions.

The options for Joomla 1.5 native subscription extensions were limited, but I heard from Beat about a new Subscription extension, CB Subs that they were developing to be used with Community Builder.

I had worked with Beat and "Nant" before, and I knew their code was top notch, so I became part of their beta program and we used CB Subs to offer to our customers. Over the last few months we have worked with our Simplweb customers to launch powerful subscription websites ranging from learning how to use email for marketing, to networking clubs about property and real estate. With such a huge range of type of subscription websites, only CB Subs has been capable of meeting these diverse needs.

Quite simply, CB Subs has set the standard for flexible and powerful subscription websites for Joomla. Nothing else even comes close.

Barrie North is the CEO of Simplweb, and the author of the #1 selling book on Joomla

I have been using Joomla and CB for a few years now and the biggest headache I experienced was the lack of a good membership component. There were plenty of components that worked but they all seemed to involve hacks to the core code. This is a nightmare when it comes to upgrades!

I was fortunate enough to be approached to update a client site from Joomla 1.0.x with CB, OSCommerce (hacked), and some customized databases. I like a challenge but then I realized that one of the custom databases was a manual membership system. The client was looking to upgrade to Joomla 1.5 and reduce the amount of manual intervention his staff were involved in.

Luckily I had been reading up on the CB Subscriptions plugin and realized that I could probably assist as a tester. It was one of the best choices I have made. The CB Subs plugin has happily managed to cope with 10,000+ users with 6 different levels and upgrades based on specific plans.

Even importing 2,000+ live subscriptions from the customized database was made easy by the built in import feature of CB Subs.

Not only has it coped with the demands of the client it has actually made life easier for the users as CB Subs controls access to lots of different site elements. This includes access at component level, section, category and article levels, as well as accessing specific URLs. Now they can amend their own Sobi2 entries without waiting for approval from a moderator/admin.

Added to all of that the CB Subs plugin has allowed us to convert the online shop to Virtuemart and it even adds users to the correct shopper group depending on the plan they subscribe to.

I haven't even started to explore the potential of the affiliate elements of the plugin but I bet it has some fantastic potential if the rest of the application is anything to go by.

Based on working with the team; seeing my client's satisfaction; I will be using this software on my own membership site later this year.

David Goode
www.3cellhosting.com