# Paid Groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-groups/261010
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** subscriptions
**Created:** [April 8, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-groups/261010 "2023-04-08T05:03:36Z")
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### Author: ![Starcrest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Starcrest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Starcrest)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-groups/261010/3 "2023-04-08T19:11:45Z")

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Thank you @nathank for getting me up-to-speed on these plugins.

I was imagining [Category Previews](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-previews/155296), and [Advertise activity in a private category (discourse-category-lockdown)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advertise-activity-in-a-private-category-discourse-category-lockdown/70649) seems very cool too — especially the Google SEO aspect. I just see people having issues with **Category Previews** based on certain settings they’re using that I don’t understand yet, which is making it all confusing and stopping me from creating my self-hosted installation.

Honestly there’s a massive market for paywalling content, I’m surprised Discourse doesn’t make this possible with their Subscription plugin:

**Show private _paid_ Categories to all \> when unpaid users click, present a description/preview of the paid content \> give them an option to buy.**

Or am I missing something?

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