«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
You can buy it for $1 and you will automatically get Trust Level 1 and membership in the «Tester» user group on discourse.pro.
It is fully customizable: all the membership plans, prices, business rules, texts, colors are editable through admin panel (see below).
The number of membership plans is unlimited: it can be 1, 3, 10, or whatever you want
After selecting a membership plan the customer will be redirected to the PayPal website to pay:
PayPal Recurring Payments would be one the top features of future versions, not implemented yet. So now the membership just stop when the paid period is expired, and the customer need to prolong his membership by paying it again manually.
Version 3.0 is out!
Now the plugin supports and uses PayPal Recurring Payments functionality.
A customer will be rebilled automatically when his membership period is expired.
The plugin does nothing with the existing non-paying users: they will remain to use the forum on their’s current conditions until the conditions (permissions) are changed by the forum administror.
The version 3.4 is released.
Now you can choose a forum page (or another arbitrary URL) where a customer will be redirected to after he has just subscribed to a membership plan in PayPal.
-2- Payment confirmation page – price and transaction total not shown. See line:
Tester,1 year, @meccano
Price and transaction total are always shown in PayPal carts at the end of the line, right-adjusted. Customers have the right to a visual confirmation of how much they are going to pay, isn’t?
-3- upon confirming payment – I am redirected to the “/plans” page. No visual indication that my payment was accepted/rejected. No visual feedback that I am succesfully promoted to group “test”;
-4- testing access to group “test” – testing my promotion to group “test”, I navigated to URI “/groups/test”. Result: Access Denied – see below:
-5- checking my PayPal account for charges – nothing was charged to my account. See screenshot below: