# Monetized forum
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [May 5, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820 "2018-05-05T08:18:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@dave\_odiakaose](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dave_odiakaose)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820/1 "2018-05-05T08:18:50Z")
hello very soon i will be installing discourse via the $99 method and i plan on creating a community were people with divers occupation meet to discuss about their proffession and improvements but i like to monetize it partly so how can i archieve this? is their a plugin to make it happen? how can i monetize such community?
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820/2 "2018-05-05T08:33:57Z")
What kind of monetization are you looking for subscription or advertising or something else?
All of them are achievable through the means of plugins.
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### Author:  [@dave\_odiakaose](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dave_odiakaose)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820/3 "2018-05-05T10:53:10Z")
thanks fr the reply.
1 through adverts
2 receiving a kind of commission when items or services are sold / purcased
is there a way for this?
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820/4 "2018-05-05T10:55:26Z")
You can search this forum, there is an official ad plugin to display advertising.
One plugin that I’ve used is:
> [@Discourse Advertising Plugin (Ads)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advertising-plugin-for-discourse-serve-ads-on-your-discourse-forum-official-endorsed/33734):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Advertising allows the set up of advertisements on Discourseopen_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately.warning AD-BLOCKERS If you are running an ad-blocker in your browser or through a vpn, the contents of your /admin/plugins page may be blanked out. Disabling your adblocker, using an incognito tab, or whitelisting your site should prevent this issue. Features Th…
For the commission, You need your affiliate links first.
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### Author:  [@dave\_odiakaose](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dave_odiakaose)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820/5 "2018-05-05T10:56:49Z")
thanks again for the help
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820/6 "2018-05-05T11:06:54Z")
My [https://www.literatecomputing.com/product/discourse-standard-install/](https://www.literatecomputing.com/product/discourse-standard-install/) includes the ad plugin. I am not aware of any support for taking commission on sales.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/monetized-forum/86820/7 "2018-05-05T20:56:53Z")
There is also the affiliate plugin:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-affiliate/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-affiliate/blob/master/README.md)
It won’t give you commission if people trade on your forum but if they link to an amazon article and someone buys it.
> [@dave\_odiakaose](#):
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> receiving a kind of commission when items or services are sold / purcased
For this, you could restrict write access to the buy/sell category to those people who either pay you upfront or who promise to pay you once they sold their stuff.
But I wouldn’t worry about this for the time being. Just getting your forum going is enough work and starting off with (too much) monetarization is not going to help make the forum attractive.