Setting up a paid discourse community questions

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maze1g is looking for guidance on setting up a paid Discourse community integrated with a WordPress site, specifically focusing on automatically revoking access upon membership cancellation. They want users to sign up and pay on WordPress and then gain automatic access to a private Discourse community, with access removed when the WordPress subscription ends. They are considering solutions like the WP Discourse plugin with a membership plugin (MemberPress), Zapier/Webhooks, or Memberful, but find Memberful’s fees high. A potential issue is compatibility with managed Discourse hosting (Discourse.org or Communiteq).

RGJ suggests using a WordPress plugin for group memberships along with the group sync feature of the WP Discourse plugin, referencing a [possible implementation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manage-group -membership-in-discourse-with-wp-discourse-sso/74724). They confirm the WP Discourse plugin is compatible with Discourse.org (Pro plan and up) and Communiteq hosting (all plans) due to its use of the Discourse API.

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I’ll try to summarize below:

What I want: people to sign up & pay for a monthly membership on a wordpress site, where they then automatically get access to a private discourse community.

Concern: I need it so when they cancel/unsubscribe from the membership on the wordpress site, they automatically lose access to the discourse community - this is where I can’t find clear information on.

Possible solutions(?): Is WP discourse plugin (along with a wordpress membership plugin like memberpress) enough?

Or do I need zapier/webhooks to automate this?

I see that Memberful (SaaS) does this wordpress-discourse paid integration through their own platform, but their monthly/transaction fees seem pretty high.

Potential confounding issue: Lastly, if I go with managed discourse hosting (i.e. discourse.org or communiteq), does this conflict with the way I go about any of the above?

Also, any other tips or advice for going about this?

Thanks in advance, really appreciate all the work you guys do helping newbies!

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This can be done using a Wordpress plugin that sells group memberships, in combination with the group sync feature of the WP discourse plugin.
This topic describes a possible implementation.

The WP Discourse plugin uses the Discourse API so it is compatible with Discourse.org hosting (Pro plan and up) and Communiteq hosting (all plans).