You should really compare the features of AEC and Payplans rather than look from Joomdle's perspective because those products will 'drive' / 'tell' joomdle what to do. For example, when the user gains a subscription to either AEC or Payplans, they will tell joomdle to allow this user. If that user subscription expires, they will tell joomdle.
Joomdle will not restrict course access as you have requested. You may wish to restrict access to the course content using Moodle. Make adding the documentation an activity and dont let users move on until this is done. I have not done this, but it seems like a logical approach to me.
You wouldn't need to manually suspend accounts. Suspension of accounts would be based on your subscription plan defined in AEC or Payplans. What ever rules you create, the result of that rule (say suspension) is passed to Joomdle for processing.
that works great when the suspension is planned, but when it isn't what do you do? For example. Say a user signs up for a 12 month subscription, then 2 or 3 months later paypal cannot draw on the bank account of credit card to pay you. The system should give him X days to resolve his problem and make the payment before his account is suspended. right?
That I do not know. I think the first place to start is with that subscription application. If it supports such a feature and successfully suspends the user, it is likely that the same API would get called. If so, then logically it should still call Joomdle. That said, this is something that would need to be validated. Antonio may have further knowledge on this, so I'll let him contribute once he is back on-line.
I have neither payplan nor AEC installed yet. However when I do, the idea is to enroll automatically upon payment on a subscription plan. The problem is what happens when paypal can't make the subscription payment. Will it suspend the account? If so, will it be instant or will it give them a grace period?
