Paywall WITHOUT leaving Discourse?

[John_Smith3 (John Smith)]

Aloha!

Is it possible to install a paywall that doesn’t take the user offsite?

I’ve seen https://community.thefantasyfootballers.com/ recommended as a site that does a paywall well, but the “Join and unlock all forums” upgrade sends users offsite to Patreon.

I had hoped for an option, like a payment pop-up, that allows the users to pay without leaving.

Mahalo!

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

You can take a look at this plugin

ProCourse Memberships

This plugin allows you to take one-time or recurring payments in exchange for access to a group. Effectively, that allows you to put categories behind a paywall and opens up a lot of possibilities that allow the monetization of your forum. If you want to get a feel for how this works, you can see a demo setup here. Use these credit card numbers on checkout: #: 4111 1111 1111 1111 CCV: 123 Date: Anything in the future Zip: 55555 There is now a supported solution:

[John_Smith3 (John Smith)]

Thank you, sounds promising!

[waffleslop]

Memberful.com also integrates natively with Stripe and Discourse and is what I previously used. They charge ~$25/mo plus 4.9% on top of Stripe’s 2.9%.

EDIT: I’m moving to free access to the site, then allowing someone to upgrade via Gravity Forms on Wordpress with Stripe, which then creates a new WP user, which is SSO for Discourse and updates Group access to view “protected” groups. It’s not super straight forward (like Memberful is), but it’ll save me 4.9% which is a lot. Here’s my flow: Wordpress SSO flow