# Payment before creating a new topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/payment-before-creating-a-new-topic/105898
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 7, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/payment-before-creating-a-new-topic/105898 "2019-01-07T11:17:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Dixravi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dixravi)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/payment-before-creating-a-new-topic/105898/1 "2019-01-07T11:17:31Z")
When someone clicks the ‘+ NEW TOPIC’ button on my site (once registered and logged in), it should open up a payment gateway that has to be completed before that person is then directed to the Discourse post topic page.
1. The two payment options so one-offer:
a) A one-off charge of £25 to post one article.
b) Rolling monthly subscription charge of £75 to post unlimited articles.
Payment to be handled by Stripe
Can I do this with discourse?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/payment-before-creating-a-new-topic/105898/2 "2019-01-07T11:25:23Z")
I think you are expecting a lot from an open source forum to do that out of the box!
You have two alternatives, imho:
- be a bit flexible and consider paid membership instead of ‘by-post’ fees and you might be able to solve that with an existing plugin, [e.g. this one](https://meta.discourse.org/t/procourse-memberships/57558)
- post a job spec on [the marketplace category](https://meta.discourse.org/c/marketplace) to recruit a freelance developer to make a plugin for you. Be sure to include your budget.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/payment-before-creating-a-new-topic/105898/3 "2019-01-07T13:33:59Z")
A workaround is to use an existing payment plugin and have people added to a group that has write access to the category in question. The monthly option is easy, as removing a user from the group when the subscription is over is a standard feature. Removing the user after a single topic is created is a bit more complicated, but possible in a plugin.
You’d likely need a budget of $500-1000 for a custom plugin.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/payment-before-creating-a-new-topic/105898/4 "2021-12-11T18:27:59Z")