Is there anyway to make it so you can purchase a subscription for another user? Basically like gifting someone a subscription. And if there is no built-in way to do this, is there a simple solution to do it like changing to code yourself?
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Can you just purchase the sundeck and make the other user an admin?
I have no idea what that means, but Iāll make myself more clear. is there a way to make it so when 1 user purchases a subscription, they have the ability to give the other user it. 1 guy buys the subscription another guy gets access to the group
I donāt know the code of the plugin, but I know in detail what it does to my Stripe systemā¦
If userA buys a subscription, it creates a Stripe customer and a recurring Stripe subscription. Back in Discourse, they are then āactivatedā (my word, not Discourseās) by having the Stripe subscription ID associated with their account. If userA wanted to āgiveā a subscriptionā¦ I donāt see how that would work in Stripeās system. The customer (from Stripeās point-of-view) is personA. Stripe has personAās payment information on file. Stripe sends notifications to personA.
Now, my Q for the Discourse team is:
Maybe something with coupons?? So weād sell userA, a one-time product for some amount of money. Then userA can pass that coupon code to userB. That way userB still has to create their subscription (in Discourseās interface, passing their payment information along so Stripe sets up their Customer info and their Subscription.) BUT, they also enter a coupon code which allow charging them less (ideally zero if the discourse-admin sets up the products/subscriptions correctly.)
Hope Iām not mudding the waters here . . .
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Yes! I was trying to figure something out with coupons, like instead of buying access to a group you buy a 1 time use coupon which the other person could use to receive the product for āfreeā. Iād love to see this.
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Ya I think it would have to be through coupons. I think it is a good idea and can be a good way to even invite someone to the site who isnāt a member yet.
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We are using that system internally by invitations.
Keeps the most engaged audience engaged and adds confidence to our community.
Did this ever discussed internally?
Iāve recently flipped my entire community to be paywalledā¦ and I have a few paying members who would probably coupon-gift their friends who are now on the outside of the paywall.
Functionalityā¦
Iād configure a product of some new āgift-couponā type. Itās a fixed dollar-amount. (Itās on me to input the dollar value.) Then I tell people, āgo buy one of these coupons to give your friend a coupon codeā¦ā Discourse keeps track of the dollar-value of each coupon, and create a unique code which is redeemable once.
userA purchases that product, and theyāre shown the coupon-code that they can give to their friend. This should probably be pmād to them, so they donāt have to remember or write it down.
userB comes along and subscribe to one of my vanilla subscription options, and enters the coupon code. That discount is applied and passed through to Stripe like any other discount. And maybe a nice pm to the userA that says userB redeemed it. Or better, a pm including userA and userB acknowledging that it happened.
Just sayinā ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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