Continuing the discussion from Discourse Subscriptions:
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.
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?
I would not allow this for recurring payments, so I guess the answer depends on whether I make one-off payments sufficiently more expensive 
I don’t think that the plugin will he’ll with this use case.
Just “sell” them the coupon codes and let your client firm handle the subscriptions.
It will also free you of a user management burden.
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.
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
Last I looked, even with free coupon a credit card was required.
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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Things should be automated at all costs!!
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