# Admin creating subscription for user
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** subscriptions
**Created:** [November 21, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259 "2022-11-21T11:22:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/1 "2022-11-21T11:22:57Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Discourse Subscriptions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-subscriptions/140818):
If a firm preferred to pay for multiple users’ subscriptions at once (probably by bank transfer) is there any way for me as forum administrator to start subscriptions for users?
I guess it would be possible to impersonate the user and apply a secret “100% off” coupon while “paying” for a non-recurring subscription with my own credit card. Would there be any potential pitfalls there?
Are there any other ways? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/2 "2022-11-22T00:05:39Z")
I think it nice be possible at the rails console to add that subside/subscription ID to all of those users. I would need to look at the source carefully to figure that out.
But the thing to do would is probably to just create a group for those users by hand and manage it manually and not use the plugin.
Are you expecting many firms to do this?
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/3 "2022-11-22T00:29:25Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Are you expecting many firms to do this?
I would not allow this for recurring payments, so I guess the answer depends on whether I make one-off payments sufficiently more expensive 🙂
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/4 "2022-11-22T00:48:42Z")
I don’t think that the plugin will he’ll with this use case.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/5 "2022-11-22T08:12:32Z")
Just “sell” them the coupon codes and let your client firm handle the subscriptions.
It will also free you of a user management burden.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/6 "2022-11-22T23:24:41Z")
I think the coupon codes can be redeemed multiple times and there is no way to set a maximum number of redemptions. So it might be problematic to try to sell coupons for, say, exactly 10 subscribers.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/7 "2022-11-22T23:28:37Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> But the thing to do would is probably to just create a group for those users by hand and manage it manually and not use the plugin.
I think this is the answer, but now that I know that a one-off payment is for perpetual membership of the group I realise that the question is not something I needed to ask in the first place. For some reason I had thought that group membership after a one-off payment would expire after a year when sold alongside an annual subscription, but obviously that’s not how it works 🙂
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/8 "2022-11-22T23:45:53Z")
> [@RGJ](#):
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> Just “sell” them the coupon codes and let your client firm handle the subscriptions
Last I looked, even with free coupon a credit card was required.
> [@Jonathan5](#):
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> I had thought that group membership after a one-off payment would expire after a year when sold alongside an annual subscription
You could make it a one year subscription and cancel it immediately. But unless you’re going to get a bunch of these memberships for big fish, you’ve spent more time on talking about this than it’ll take to manage it by hand. (I often spend hours automating a one time 10 minute job. 😉)
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/9 "2022-11-23T00:12:30Z")
Things should be automated at all costs!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-creating-subscription-for-user/246259/10 "2022-12-23T00:12:54Z")
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