Charge one-time fee to post in a category?

[Joshua_Kogan]

Use case: job board category.

Question: can a fee be charged to post a single topic in a category?

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Definitely not possible by default.

However there are a few plugins to consider:

Advertise activity in a private category (discourse-category-lockdown)

This plugin allows you to restrict access to topic pages in a category. Topic titles will still show up in topic lists, search, user activity & digest emails. This is a great way to advertise the activity in a “members-only” category, which may charge for access. It IS NOT designed to keep the contents of the category 100% private - if someone is determined enough they will be able to piece together the content from search results. Each category has a couple of new settings in the Security tab…

«Paid Membership» plugin with PayPal integration! (version 3.0, 2015-08-31)

«Paid Membership» plugin gives you an ability to sell membership, access, privileges, and trust levels on your Discourse forum. Live Example You can see a live example here: https://discourse.pro/plans More, you can try it yourself! The green membership plan («Tester») is just for your tests You can buy it for $1 and you will automatically get Trust Level 1 and membership in the «Tester» user group on discourse.pro. Version history 3.0: 2015-08-31 2.0: 2015-08-02 1.0: 201…

[waffleslop]

I’m using Memberful.com for a membership manager/payment gateway for my site. Hack idea may be to:

• Let someone sign-up with Memberful for $X; grant them ability to PM only Admin
• Redirect them to a page that asks them to send an admin a PM using the link below
• Re-post the paid post as its own category manually as admin
• Once you have enough sales, pay for some custom magic to manual reposting

You can use this link: https://meta.discourse.org/new-message?username=Joshua_Kogan&title=My%20Paid%20Message%20-%20PUT%20YOUR%20NAME%20HERE%20&body=Hey%20Joshua,%20here%27s%20my%20post