Clarification needed re how difficult to create paid subscription SMF

[himagain2]

Greetings all,
Am needing to setup a new Forum with a paid subscription option.
From what I've read here so far, it seems not too well-supported AND quite difficult.

Have I got it wrong?
Hope so.  :-)

[JimM]

The documentation for this is quite adequate and there are a quite a few folks here that have done it.  I assume your will be doing this on 2.0?

[himagain2]

The documentation for this is quite adequate and there are a quite a few folks here that have done it.  I assume your will be doing this on 2.0?

Hi Jim,
Been a while AND an exercise!
1. I use KLOXO on a VPS  and it is a VERY fast system and looks great.  BUT no docs and no script installer since the last one broke.  Can't install easily on it as I'm a non-nerd and need good docs.
2. Setup another option:  a shared Server which came with CPanel and Scriptaculous and Fantastico.   Scriptaculous is a pretty useless demo-like version (a free one) their real one is I gather very good.   Fantastico as always is messy and slow.  The version on my package is  1.1.1 .
I did an install anyway and tried the internal updater:  took me up to 1.1.12 .

Can't see what to do with it from there.
However, the default install doesn't seem to be working too well.  Doing strange things and producing page errors. So, I may need look at a manual install  or something.

So there I am up to date:
Nothing working well enough anywhere to proceed too far.
However, I DO need a paid inclusion capability AND one that doesn't need a certified nerd to setup.
After a lot of looking, I really want it to be SMF.

I'll be baaaack

Cheers!

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

If you need paid subscriptions, you have two choices - a) Seek a mod for 1.1 and support through the mod author, or b) upgrade to 2.0 and have the official supported paid subscriptions feature at your disposal.

[himagain2]

If you need paid subscriptions, you have two choices - a) Seek a mod for 1.1 and support through the mod author, or b) upgrade to 2.0 and have the official supported paid subscriptions feature at your disposal.

Hi Lexarma,
Choice 1:
Sole mod authors tend to literally give me nightmares (over the years, they have).
Choice 2:
I've always avoided Beta Versions because there are enough problems with "stable" (hah!) ones.
I've just tried to install and upgrade 1.1.1 via Fantastico - and the instal is snafu !

I might as well look into v.2.0 ..... what have I got to lose??? 

Cheers!
Although I'd like to lose the dumb verification demand  here - I'm logged in and already posted before!  Worse it gets its own verifications wrong if you use audio.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Is there a problem with the captcha really? If there is we would love to hear more feedback on it.

The verification will disappear after some posts, can't remember how many actually - it is done because we have had quite a big problem with spammers here recently..