# Group membership subscriptions with profit split

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-membership-subscriptions-with-profit-split/143234
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-membership-subscriptions-with-profit-split/143234 "2020-03-03T17:08:08Z")
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#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-membership-subscriptions-with-profit-split/143234/2 "2020-03-03T19:05:07Z")

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> [@jord8on](#):
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> If I do have private groups, we’ll also need to create categories that these groups have access to and the “category” is where the discussions go down. right?

Yes, this is probably the correct approach for your case. For details about setting this up, have a look at the video in this topic: [[Video] How to create a private category using group permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/video-how-to-create-a-private-category-using-group-permissions/136439).

Another feature that is available to groups is that personal messages can be sent to all group members. This is especially useful for customer support type scenarios.

> [@jord8on](#):
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> I’m also using Wordpress for our website. I’m using the “[Multivendor Marketplace](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-multivendor-marketplace/)” tool with woocommerce. It’s incredibly powerful and allows me to retain commissions on products/services that members buy.

It’s hard to know what the best approach would be for your case, but managing group memberships, payments, and commissions from WordPress would definitely be possible. This would be easiest to do if your WordPress site is the SSO provider for your Discourse site. [Our WordPress plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discourse/) can be used to enable SSO between WordPress and Discourse. It also [makes a few functions available](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-discourse-group-membership-with-wp-discourse/74724) that can be used by developers for managing Discourse group membership.

If you are using the [WP DIscourse](https://github.com/discourse/wp-discourse) plugin with Woocommerce, you may need to install [GitHub - scossar/wp-discourse-woocommerce-support: Integrates the wp-discourse plugin with WooCommerce · GitHub](https://github.com/scossar/wp-discourse-woocommerce-support). An alternative to installing that plugin is to just add the functions given in the plugin’s README to your site.

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