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Originally Posted by XXXMovie4M
when a membership expires the user is removed but if there is a problem with the connection then the user never gets removed.
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You will find a LOT of problems like this, 3rd party membership/affiliate tracking software included. Solution is to make sure your site (at least your postback site) is up 24/7/365 and that your connection to biller is foolproof.
Neither is going to happen.
I recently put in some custom member tracking stuff for a client, and this was the entire reason I added "expires" in the mysql table and have the biller postback update that field when the member renews. It's a "my glass is half full" situation since either you allow members to go on indefinitely when there is a network problem (ie they are not expired) or you get members that are expired because their renew postback didn't go through. I opt for the latter.... since a member will complain if they don't have access when they should have whereas the reverse is never true.