VIP Membership (Subscriptions To Some Categlories) [OPTIONAL]

Apr

2009

Hey guys,

I have an idea for our forums that might be able to put some money in our pockets. I havn't thought everything out yet, but i really think that this could potentially be the best update we've had yet.

I think that we should be able to have certain people who can access certain categlories that the administrator can make, "VIP only". This would mean that a person registered on your forum has to pay for access to that categlory or subject. We could have it be optional for the people on your forum to pay for 1 month access, or a year access. This would use PayPal or some other reliable paying service.

This is bacically the whole reason I made my forum. To make money. If we do not get this I might have to switch over to vBulletin or some other provider that does have this option.

Remember that this WOULD BE OPTIONAL. I do respect your opinion and want to know what you think. I really do think that this is a good idea. You may not think that. Please do not vote no just because I really like this idea. Please vote Yes or No and explain to me why you voted that way. Remember that I do respect your opinion and want to know what you think.

Thanks for reading to what I have to say,
13gentj

1 Nazar, on 11/04/2009 at 03h20

You can already do this

Just inform your members that they have to donate to access certain categories

2 13gentj, on 12/04/2009 at 03h07

then how do I set up paypal and stuff?

3 jacobred, on 12/04/2009 at 17h50

13gentj wrote:Hey guys,

I have an idea for our forums that might be able to put some money in our pockets. I havn't thought everything out yet, but i really think that this could potentially be the best update we've had yet.

I think that we should be able to have certain people who can access certain categlories that the administrator can make, "VIP only". This would mean that a person registered on your forum has to pay for access to that categlory or subject. We could have it be optional for the people on your forum to pay for 1 month access, or a year access. This would use PayPal or some other reliable paying service.

This is bacically the whole reason I made my forum. To make money. If we do not get this I might have to switch over to vBulletin or some other provider that does have this option.

Remember that this WOULD BE OPTIONAL. I do respect your opinion and want to know what you think. I really do think that this is a good idea. You may not think that. Please do not vote no just because I really like this idea. Please vote Yes or No and explain to me why you voted that way. Remember that I do respect your opinion and want to know what you think.

Thanks for reading to what I have to say,
13gentj

So what your saying is

Forumotion give you a forum free of charge and they make little money from ads. your being like a little kid saying

This is bacically the whole reason I made my forum. To make money. If we do not get this I might have to switch over to vBulletin or some other provider that does have this option.

but if you had the money in the first place for a vBulletin license why open a free forum???

Bad idea, you can make money by putting adverts on your forum which is allowed Very Happy

4 13gentj, on 12/04/2009 at 21h02

lol u clearly do not understand how a business works. ok so when you start a business you have a little money that you spend. I would spend my money on a vbulletin membership. But it would be a better deal to do this because I do not have to pay anything for this. Then you make more money. that is called a profit. Now you are well educated on the world of business and can stop calling people "little kids" and learn "big kid words" to call people. lol

5 jacobred, on 13/04/2009 at 12h45

13gentj wrote:lol u clearly do not understand how a business works. ok so when you start a business you have a little money that you spend. I would spend my money on a vbulletin membership. But it would be a better deal to do this because I do not have to pay anything for this. Then you make more money. that is called a profit. Now you are well educated on the world of business and can stop calling people "little kids" and learn "big kid words" to call people. lol

But you said in other post ''I might just have to switch over to vBulletin'', You go do that, in my eyes thats you saying you have the money to switch over to vBulletin therefore stop wasting our time and buy your license at vBulletin Sad

vBulletin is a good forum and I once had a license but I found I was better suited with a free forum at Forumotion because it find it alot easier to change my forums colors and themes and the updates are express if not easy to install.

Have fun at Jelsoft Smile

Regards

6 jacobred, on 13/04/2009 at 12h48

Nazar wrote:You can already do this

Just inform your members that they have to donate to access certain categories

That woudnt be automatic, meaning you Using php in posts is called being a smart ass... Stop it would have to see the payment and find there email in the admin panel and then give them V.I.P

Would take too long for one person Cool

7 13gentj, on 15/04/2009 at 22h51

How do I do this?

8 13gentj, on 19/04/2009 at 18h21

Nazar wrote:You can already do this

Just inform your members that they have to donate to access certain categories

So can I get paypal on my site on my own?

9 MAHAM, on 18/05/2009 at 10h38

I like the idea. Ive made a few ebooks for a video game and an interactive forum with pay for memebership would be a great idea.

10 MAHAM, on 18/05/2009 at 10h56

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Merchant/xclick/request/SubscriptionPassManual

[/quote]After a customer signs up for a subscription, he will be given a unique username and password on the PayPal Successful Completion page. You will then activate the username/password pair on your website's server through code you write or, if you are using Basic Authentication (with an Apache Web server on Linux), through a sample Perl script we provide.[quote]

Any way to do this through foromotion?

11 TigTrivers, on 18/05/2009 at 12h13

Its a yes from me good idea

12 13gentj, on 25/05/2009 at 02h28

thank you

13 hufschmid, on 31/01/2010 at 18h08

in the guitar world, the forums propose paid membership and you get a tagg above your name as ''contributor 1'' or ''contributor 2'' depending on the level you pay...

In some guitar forums you also get the tagg ''life time supporter''

For my forum this would be very much appreciated indeed to set up something like this, because in guitar forums many members enjoy to contribute to show support and also some members think its a VIP way of being cool...

So it brings money and makes members happy...

Please consider this Smile