Payments; monetize your community

jbstore

can this work with btc payment ?

luceos

jbstore if stripe supports it, it can be added to this extension. I noticed some articles by them mentioning cryptocurrencies payout.

badlife333

@luceos

luceos

badlife333 you will need a subscription from extiverse and follow the instructions once subscribed.

https://extiverse.com/extension/blomstra/payments

See https://extiverse.com/premium/subscriptions

luceos

0.4.0 More Payment Methods & Pay to bump

Payment Methods

Stripe recently released an update called "automatic payment methods" which removes the need of the code to specify the payment methods available during handling of payment or subscription. For more information see https://stripe.com/docs/payments/dashboard-payment-methods. With this new feature, we are able to fully delegate payment method selection to Stripe, offering a much larger array of methods per default.

How to enable this?

Update the extension on your installation to at least 0.4.0.
Go to your Stripe dashboard to configure payment settings (https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/payment_methods), choose "No platform" in case there's a dropdown. And enable/configure the payment methods.
Stripe, during checkout on your community, will now automatically look at available payment methods and offer them to the user.

PS stripe does not support PayPal, but every other payment method that works with one-off payments or recurring payments will be offered to the checkout flow of the different product plans. Here's a list of Stripes' supported payment options (Checkout Payments and Checkout Subscriptions mode): https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-methods/integration-options.

I have updated the OP to include the current list of payment methods available through Stripe: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26095-payments-monetize-your-community

Pay To Bump

In addition to this the extension now also supports Pay To Bump. Pay to bump allows users to push their discussion back to the top of their stream in return for pay.

You can enable Pay to Bump per tag in the tag edit modal. It requires a one-off, single payment product to be configured.

MikeJones

luceos In addition to this the extension now also supports Pay To Bump. Pay to bump allows users to push their discussion back to the top of their stream in return for pay.

You can enable Pay to Bump per tag in the tag edit modal. It requires a one-off, single payment product to be configured.

this is an awesome addition! Now I just need more users 😆

Darkle

luceos Working perfectly!

It's so great that you noticed this luceos, I had no idea about this Stripe update, a great improvement for Stripe itself, certainly most of the sites I know that use Stripe hadn't done the payment provider specific implementations, so I guess it wasn't something very convenient.

luceos

Darkle yeah it wasn't convenient to begin with. This change helps, but isn't applicable to a specific mode where you first register a payment method and then reuse it. They have plans to add it for that use case too though, something really helpful for Blomstra hosting and potentially Extiverse subscriptions.

Thanks for the feedback 👍

luceos

I have readied up 0.5.0-beta:

fixes a bug where users could again subscribe to access the same group
adds a user subscription page where users can cancel running subscriptions and view past payments

Feedback welcome 😉

luceos

0.6.0 is still under development, but I'm stoked about it. This new release will add bounties.

Bounties can be enabled per tag so that users can pledge any amount to the cause of a discussion.
There's a permission, if set to something else than Everyone, discussions first will need approval to get bounties activated.

What still needs to be done is:

Keep track of pledges per discussion and render the sum on discussion view and index.
Show all backers, similar to how gamification shows upvoters.
Allow setting a terms url and render terms in close proximity to Bounty buttons and possibly the other payment method buttons too.

MikeJones

luceos There's a permission, if set to something else than Everyone, discussions first will need approval to get bounties activated.

Going to use this on discuss :-)

luceos

MikeJones I'm not at liberty to disclose this confidential information at this point 😉

MikeJones

luceos 😁

SychO

🔔 0.5.0

Fixes a bug where users could again subscribe to access the same group.
Adds a user subscription page where users can cancel running subscriptions and view past payments.
Adds Bounties.

Bounties

Users can donate on a discussion page to raise funds for whatever the discussion is for, under the tags that allow bounties. If the tag requires a permission group to first enable bounties, discussions will need to be manually activated.

Great for crowdfunding and feature request funding.

Hari

SychO Users can donate on a discussion page to raise funds

can the admin add dummy funding? in my case, if there is a feature request which needs $100 and as an admin i want to fund $10 without making any real transaction is this possible?

in another way, the user sends us a Demand Draft or a Bank Cheque to support funding .. is it possible to add funds manually?

This is just a random question - at this moment i do not have any intention to use it but checking the possibilities of the current version

Darkle

Hari Honestly I haven't tried bounties yet, but at least with products you can generate 100% discount codes, I think it should let you add promo codes to them as well, so you could have a lifetime discount code as an admin to do this kind of transactions.

luceos

Hari what @Darkle says is possible. It is probably the easiest solution, another way is adding entries to the bounties table manually but I'd just use the promotion code solution.

luceos

Thanks to @SychO we can now specify a terms URL in the Payments settings page in version 0.5.1. If you do configure this, a user attempting to pay for any action will be shown a modal where they need to accept the terms before continueing to Stripe. It's one URL to one terms page, so make sure to define terms for all payment methods you've enabled on that page. This can be a discussion a FoF Pages page or just a web page.

To celebrate the 0.5 milestone I created a plan for a lifetime license at a highly reduced rate, go check it out: https://extiverse.com/extension/blomstra/payments?key=payments-0-5-1 because there are only two available 😏

Tagged 0.5.2 to remove "Enable bounties" control on discussions without tags that allow bounties.

Darkle

luceos That's one of the features you don't know you need until you have it... 😁

To celebrate the 0.5 milestone I created a plan for a lifetime license at a highly reduced rate, go check it out: https://extiverse.com/extension/blomstra/payments?key=payments-0-5-1 because there are only two available 😏

I think that's music to more than one's ears, the lucky ones arrive just with the extension in an amazing state of features!

The "Subscriptions" section has stopped showing the user's active subscriptions, I'm not sure with which of the latest versions it stopped working, with 0.5.0-beta.2 which was the last one I checked it worked fine, anyway it would be great if someone can confirm this as I have migrated server and installed everything from scratch so maybe it's my fault 🤷

Lurker

luceos To celebrate the 0.5 milestone I created a plan for a lifetime license at a highly reduced rate, go check it out: https://extiverse.com/extension/blomstra/payments?key=payments-0-5-1 because there are only two available 😏

I created an account solely to thank you for this. Though I have yet to install Flarum, I believe it is the best out there.

I appreciate all that you and the rest of the team do for the community.

And I look forward to creating a small online community for my workplace.

luceos

Darkle The "Subscriptions" section has stopped showing the user's active subscriptions, I'm not sure with which of the latest versions it stopped working, with 0.5.0-beta.2 which was the last one I checked it worked fine, anyway it would be great if someone can confirm this as I have migrated server and installed everything from scratch so maybe it's my fault 🤷

We will check it out asap. Thanks for reporting.

Darkle That's one of the features you don't know you need until you have it... 😁

I know right 😉 Glad you like it.

luceos

Darkle this is fixed, we're now at 0.5.5 for fixes, see the changelog for details https://blomstra.community/d/130-developer-logbook-payments/4

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