Just found about Steady, who is a membership service, similar to Patreon, focused in the European market.
They have users who also run Discourse and would love for an integration similar to Discourse Patreon Integration.
Are there any users of Steady here who want to share how they would use it together with Discourse?
Hi Rafael,
thanks a lot for looking into this! Steady is getting quite big in Germany at the moment and we (https://1e9.community) would love to use it for our paid membership model - which will be an important part of our overall business model.
As you said, we’d use Steady very similar to the available Patreon plugin, i.e. integrating it directly into Discourse, so that Users can
and so get access to one or more Discourse groups which have access to different categories (It would be nice, if you could assign more then one group to a user, eg “Paying Members” and “Premium tier”.)
Also, it would be great, if the payment notifications (re renewal, payment failure etc. or even invoices) would make use of Discourse pms, so that the whole payment process is neatly integrated and makes for a seamless ux.
We currently don’t have any developer ressources ourselves, but would love to get involved in the development process, if help is needed.
Thanks again!
Patreon plugin does that. Every single patron is in a catch-all default “Patron” group, plus a group for each tier.
That is very different from what the Patreon plugin does.
On the Discourse Patreon Integration we have a clear separation of concerns. Everything payment in on Patreon and Discourse just reads from Patreon remotely. There is no user UI in Discourse about Patreon at all.
This deeper level of integration means it would be a lot more work than the Patreon one. Also it makes it very similar to what Discourse Subscriptions plugin does. Did you take a look at it? Maybe Steady plugin could be a fork of that one instead? Or an alternative payment provider inside the same plugin?
Thanks for your response, Rafael!
Yes, we took a look at it and found it very suitable, though not production ready yet (will provide our feedback soon). And it would be great to see Steady integrated here. Is there anything we could do on our side to make this happen?
Ciao,
ci sono progressi per avere l’opportunità di usare Steady invece di Patreon? Per me la funzionalità come l’integrazione di Patreon funzionerebbe bene.
Sto migrando presto da phpBB a Discourse e sarebbe fantastico iniziare con Steady invece di Patreon.
Finora abbiamo avuto solo due siti che hanno richiesto l’integrazione Steady in due anni interi, quindi ci vorrebbe qualcuno disposto a sponsorizzare questa funzionalità affinché accada presto.
Il plugin Discourse Subscriptions è ora un plugin maturo che offre un set di funzionalità simile, utilizzando Stripe come gateway di pagamento.
Darò un’occhiata anche a questa sotto-opzione di discourse.
Ma contatterò le persone di Steady. Forse anche loro hanno interesse a far sì che questo plugin si realizzi. 