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?
Olá,\n\nhá algum progresso para ter a oportunidade de usar o Steady em vez do Patreon? Para mim, a funcionalidade como a integração do Patreon funciona, seria bom.\n\nEstou migrando em breve do phpBB para o Discourse e seria ótimo começar com o Steady em vez do Patreon.
Até agora, tivemos apenas dois sites solicitando a integração do Steady em dois anos completos, então seria necessário alguém disposto a patrocinar esse recurso para que ele aconteça em breve.
O plugin Discourse Subscriptions Ă© agora um plugin maduro que oferece um conjunto semelhante de funcionalidades, usando o Stripe como gateway de pagamento.
Vou dar uma olhada nesta sub-opção de discourse também.
Mas vou escrever para o pessoal da Steady. Talvez eles também tenham interesse em fazer este plugin acontecer. 