Payment before creating a new topic

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The discussion revolves around implementing a payment system before users can create new topics on a Discourse site. Dixravi wants to integrate Stripe for two payment options: a one-off £25 fee per article or a £75 monthly subscription for unlimited posts. merefield notes this isn’t possible out of the box and suggests either using a membership plugin like ProCourse Memberships or hiring a developer via the marketplace. pfaffman proposes a workaround using a payment plugin to grant write access to a category, with the monthly option being straightforward and the one-off option requiring custom plugin development, estimated at $500–1000.

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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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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
  • post a job spec on the marketplace category to recruit a freelance developer to make a plugin for you. Be sure to include your budget.
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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.