How can you charge a membership fee to join a forum? I don’t know where to start.

I think you will be interested in this plugin: [image] Discourse Subscriptions Plugin Plugin discourse2 Summary The Discourse Subscriptions plugin allows site owners to sell recurring and one-time purchase subscriptions that grant access to a group on a D…

Hmm… but that’s a group, while OP is asking for the [image] Andro: forum

Does it matter? A forum is equal to categories, and categories are controlled by groups. One group is used to control all categories.

Yes. What he wants is to make people play before they can create an account and you can’t do that, as you have to have an account to use the subscription plugin. So, as you say, the solution is to have all categories require membership in the paid group, and probably have an open category with info…

Charging a membership fee

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Arkshine March 27, 2025, 2:01am 4

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