# 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")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@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")

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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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