I’m considering charging my users for creating an account on my Discourse website. How can I do that?

I think you want this plugin [image] «Paid Membership» plugin with PayPal integration! (version 3.0, 2015-08-31) shopping_cartMarketplace «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 slight_smile 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… Or you will want to setup an SSO process, where your main site is the login provider and then you charge for signups through your main site.

There is the Memberful plugin as well Integrate Discourse with Memberful - Memberful Integrate Memberful with Discourse to run a private discussion forum. Use single sign-on so members access the forum with their Memberful login.

What other membership plug ins work with Discourse? For example, does S2Member work?

Yes, s2member works. I am using it with SSO to connect my Discourse forum to my wordpress website.

For the record, there is a few options since then, and you don’t need wordpress: Grant access to a group via payment with Procourse Memberships : ProCourse Memberships 💸 Via Patreon : GitHub - discourse/discourse-patreon: Enable syncronization between Discourse Groups and Patreon rewards · GitHub A new service called Subscriptia : https://subscriptia.com/

And now we have an official plugin. [image] Discourse Subscriptions Plugin Plugin discourse Summary The Discourse Subscriptions plugin allows site owners to sell recurring and one-time purchase subscriptions that grant access to a group on a Discourse instance. open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. The Discourse Subscriptions plugin allows you to create one-time as well as recurring subscriptions that users can pay for in order to access gated content. This can be a great w…

How to charge members for my Discourse website?

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HAWK (Hawk) October 27, 2021, 1:53am 8

And now we have an official plugin.

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How to charge members for my Discourse website?

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