Paid Subscriptions

MajoMaslo

clarkwinkelmann Hello, nice to see someone who will make extension like this. I will buy it on flagrow, because this is one of the first extension what i want.

Yep, it's ok for group based permissions.
Maybe "freebies" can see on premium tags something like this:

This content is for premium members only.
Please, support our community and buy a premium package.

clarkwinkelmann

MajoMaslo JRay thanks for the feedback guys !

JRay including a free tier

Would the free tier be different from a "no subscription" state ? Or is it just about listing what you can do without a paid tier on a pricing page ?

JRay Admin can add/remove members from groups manually if needed

How would you expect that to work ? You mean kicking user from a paid plan ? What if they subscribe again ? Maybe you can just use the "suspend user" feature for that ?

JRay

clarkwinkelmann Awesome Clark. This is my #1 need right now.

Here's my wish list:

Multiple membership levels similar to Patreon (including a free tier)
Integration with Stripe
Page that details different member levels and what you get for each. I was going to do this outside of Flarum but if it's integrated even better.
When you signup for a level, it maps to a user group which can set permissions for various Flarum things
Admin can add/remove members from groups manually if needed
Membership level can be listed on profile or next to screen name
Certain tags/topics only viewable by certain member levels (groups)
Ads extension integrates with user groups so ads can be disabled for certain member levels

RelatedTitle

clarkwinkelmann I've been looking for something like this.

Heres in my point of view what you can include.

Users may register as a member and have member permissions. If you pay for a specific subscription (via paypal would be nice) get a permission added by the admin, Also As I see you are on flagrow, I could see being able to integrate a subscription with the flagrow ads so you could add specific members to not see ads. The reasons I think about making them permissions is the fact that is (In my point of view) easier for a dev to give a user a permission instead of others, And it's better to use flarum natively so I could restric/or grant access to certain subscriptions.

JRay

clarkwinkelmann Would the free tier be different from a "no subscription" state ? Or is it just about listing what you can do without a paid tier on a pricing page ?

Yeah I guess it's basically a no-subscription state. I was thinking non-paid users have a title of "Free member" or something like that. But I guess that could be done with groups.

clarkwinkelmann How would you expect that to work ? You mean kicking user from a paid plan ? What if they subscribe again ? Maybe you can just use the "suspend user" feature for that ?

I meant more if a credit card fails or user cancels, you'd need to be able to remove them from both subscription (billing) and the user group with the paid features. Probably ok if you have to do that in 2 places.

If you had to ban a paid member, you'd have to make sure they didn't get charged in the future as well.

jordanjay29

JRay you can block a patron via Patreon so they cannot pledge to you.

clarkwinkelmann

JRay I meant more if a credit card fails or user cancels, you'd need to be able to remove them from both subscription (billing) and the user group with the paid features

If we offer automatically renewed plans (and it's the goal with Stripe and maybe Paypal) users will automatically be kicked from the plan if they don't pay. You'll have to setup a webhook for that but this will definitely be built in. Still looking at what options we have to remind users and configure grace periods.

Suspending a user makes him a guest so this will automatically prevent them from subscribing to any plan. I still have to figure out what to do with suspended users who are currently subscribed. Probably an option to either terminate their plan immediately or keep it running until the suspension is lifted. Just hope suspend won't prevent the user from willingly unsubscribing ?

RelatedTitle

jordanjay29 you're right but why would someone do that. Everyone wants money

JRay

jordanjay29 cool but would prefer not to use Patreon if we can use our own payment processor and this plug-in.

jordanjay29

RelatedTitle for users who take advantage of patreon to try to get around a site ban. One could argue that offering site roles in Patreon pledges entitles patrons to access to those site roles, even if they've been banned from the site for breaking rules. Blocking money from those patrons solves that problem.

jordanjay29

JRay sorry, you're right, I misread the last few posts.

askjoyb

Hi All, I am also planning to start a Paid Membership Forum site and i am looking for a solution and i like the feature look of Flarum not sure i can have that feature in this or not.. can anyone help?

luceos

askjoyb @clarkwinkelmann has been working on such a feature.

askjoyb

luceos Ok Thanks for quick response .. ? can share a page or document where i can see all features of the Forum as I would recommend this platform to my clients as well

luceos

askjoyb that's pretty hard with all the extensions out there, for a list check https://flagrow.io ?

askjoyb

luceos will explore them like i can see flagrow/bazaar that should also have a payment methods .. ?

hahahahaha

luceos Are you still working on such feature? would gladly pay for it.
I would love to have paid subscription.

clarkwinkelmann

hahahahaha yep we are still working on it, it will be available as a Flagrow premium extension for beta 8 ?

JRay

clarkwinkelmann Any updates on the paid membership extension? Thanks!

MikeJones

I cant wait!

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