A discussion on a new monetisation feature for a Discourse-based website, focusing on a paid pinning system. Jeremie_Leroy proposes a credit-based model where users can purchase credits to post, with companies required to buy credits for sponsored content. ChrisBeach introduces a plugin, discourse-paid-pinning, that enables businesses to pay for pinned topics via Stripe, with features like payment popups and admin transaction tracking. The plugin is in beta, with Jeremie_Leroy and others testing it, though some issues remain unresolved. bartv inquires about category-specific restrictions, but ChrisBeach notes this isn’t supported and can’t commit to sponsored development. unschooling asks about hiding the advertise link from the main menu, with ChrisBeach open to contributions. jrgong seeks alternatives, as they prefer a manual credit system over Stripe, and pfaffman suggests the Gamification plugin but is unsure of its relevance. jrgong clarifies that pinning lasts 7–30 days, is global, and they currently handle requests manually, aiming to automate the process as demand grows.
I have been thinking of a way of monetising the website and during the launching stage for us about 4 months old site it it a bit tricky.
There is different monetising ways :
1 - ads ( I don’t like it, it looks ugly, and is not worth the money unless you have crazy traffic )
2 - subscription like nomad list : Digital Nomad Chat on Telegram . It is tricky to do this in early stage because we want content
3 - our idea / solution ( Wallet type or credit kind )
is there a system / plugin that offers the opportunity to group2 level people to top up credits where 1 crédit would allow 1 post. Credits would go to stripe account.
So random customers can post but companies would have to buy credits.
Does this would make sense ? does it exist ? We would be happy to be beta testers.
On my forums (example: https://se23.life), I allow businesses to create one new topic free of charge. If they want to create subsequent topics, they can pay a fee using a Stripe online payment. As a bonus, their paid-for topics are pinned for four days. Here are some screenshots:
what’s the status of this plugin? I’m considering using it to let users post commercial messages in a specific category - does the plugin support this?
as our forum is getting traction and our pinned posts are performing really well with advertisers, we would like to implement some “paid pinning” feature in a similar fashion.
I am really wondering if anyone is still using this plugin or created a similar one.
In our case we don’t want to use stripe, but rather give each advertisement account a credit (entered manually) that they can spend on pinning topics, creating banner topic etc.
Would pinning/banners last forever or need to expire, or be charged again periodically? Would it be for items only in certain categories? Do you have a budget?
Currently we offer 7 days “pinned topic”, but sometimes we also hand out 10 days or a whole month.
The topics are pinned globally. Pinning in a category not requested for now, but
Not yet. Currently, we are handling those requests manually, but as demand is growing, we would like to set up a system where clients can pin topics on their own.
