Reorder and Publish QCMM Plan Groups and Plans

QCMM separates stored catalog records from what your current tier is allowed to publish. You can reorder Plan Groups and Plans without rebuilding them, and a downgrade does not need to delete excess saved catalog configuration.

Publication is the control that matters for tier limits. Basic allows 1 published Plan Group and 3 published Plans; Pro allows 2 groups and 6 Plans; Max and All Access are unlimited for these publication counts.

Reorder Plan Groups

1. Open QCMM → Plans.
2. Drag Plan Group rows into the desired customer-facing order.
3. Save/apply the reorder action. QCMM normalizes the stored order into stable increments rather than relying on arbitrary drag indexes.
4. Reload the public Plans page and confirm the published groups appear in the intended sequence.

Reorder or Move Plans

1. Within the Plans workspace, drag a Plan to the required position.
2. You may also move it between Plan Groups through the reorder workflow.
3. After saving, QCMM updates both the Plan Group assignment and Plan ordering.
4. Check the destination group on the frontend before assuming the move is complete.

Publication Limits by Tier

What Happens to Extra Records

• Extra Plan Groups and Plans can remain stored as unpublished records.
• QCMM applies tier limits when publishing; it does not need to destroy saved higher-tier catalog work merely because Effective tier is lower.
• This preservation-first behavior lets an administrator restore publication after upgrading or correcting entitlement instead of recreating the catalog.

Important: Group Publication Is Not the Same as Plan Publication

Unpublishing a Plan Group removes that group from the normal Plans catalog. In QCMM 2.0.21, however, direct Plan Detail lookup checks the Plan’s own published/archive/access state and does not independently require its parent group to be published. If a Plan must become unavailable everywhere, unpublish the Plan itself as well as hiding or unpublishing its group.

Safe Publication Procedure

1. Confirm the current Effective tier before publishing a large catalog.
2. Publish only the Plan Groups and Plans intended to be available now.
3. When retiring an offer, unpublish the Plan itself if direct Details/Checkout access must stop.
4. Open each relevant Plans menu item and verify ordering plus filtered-group behavior.
5. Test a direct Plan Details URL for any Plan you intentionally retired.

Community Discussion

Want to compare QCMM workflows or discuss how other Joomla site owners use this feature? Visit the QC Memberships & Meetings Community. For private support, account-specific entitlement or billing issues, or bug reports, use the QuantaCade support system.