Padi subscription for registration.

[boka003]

Hello,

I did not use SMF before, but after install, i like how it all looks.

Not sure is it possbile, but i will like to create membership plans for my forum, so user need to pay if thay want to register and have full acces to forum theards.
I will use wordpress for website and smf for forum.

Web site allredy have some membership plugin, but it is not connected to smf:


I will like to make this subscriptions on smf or make it on wordpress website and connect to smf.

Is it possible ?

Thank You!!
Regards

[boka003]

I will try whit this plugin: hxxp:wordpress.org/plugins/wp2smfbridge/ [nonactive]

So i can use paid subscription in wordpress.
And i hope if user paid membership in wordpress that he can log in to smf.
But then i will need to disable direct registration at smf, is it possible to do that?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

SMF does have paid subscriptions - you can't (by default) connect them to registration, but you can tie access levels to paid subscriptions.

[Kindred]

And linking word press to smf is complicated...

Also,  I am certain there are no bridges between wordpress and smf 2.1 yet

[boka003]

SMF does have paid subscriptions - you can't (by default) connect them to registration, but you can tie access levels to paid subscriptions.

Thanks for reply Lex,

I will like to turn off free registration, is someone want to register he will need to pay.
Is it possible to force some user groups to pay for subscription?
Example, i have 4 groups:
Members - free
Level 1 - 1$
Level 2 - 2$
Level 3 - 3$

Can i remove usergroup members, and use only level 1, level 2 and level 3?

So if someone want to register he will need to chose group and pay for registration?

Thanks

[boka003]

And linking word press to smf is complicated...

Also,  I am certain there are no bridges between wordpress and smf 2.1 yet

Thanks for reply,

It look like more easy way will be to create membership plan on forum.
Is there any documentation about this, i will like to rad little about.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Can i remove usergroup members, and use only level 1, level 2 and level 3?

So if someone want to register he will need to chose group and pay for registration?

Thanks

No, you cannot - everyone must belong in one group. You can however make it (for example) so:

Members - Virtually no access to elsewhere than their own profile and paid subs
Level 1 - 1$ ( Tier one access )
Level 2 - 2$ ( Tier one access + Tier 2 access )
Level 3 - 3$ ( Tier one access + Tier 2 access + Tier 3 Access )

What each access level would be, you would define through membergroups.

https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Paid_subscriptions

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Paid subs is only available to registered members, you must be registered to subscribe.  You can, however, redirect login of nonsubscribers to Profile -> Paid Subscriptions, where you can display an explanatory message, i.e., ''You must be a subscriber to access all content and features available on this forum."  Access to subscriber content would be restricted via permissions, as Lex explained.

[Biology Forums]

As mentioned before, you don't need WordPress for any of this. You can program SMF to accept paid subscriptions without a free membership, but it'll require a lot of backend re-programming. Are you interested in investing money to have someone do this for you? If you have your heart set on using Wordpress as a gateway for payment, that can also be done. The programmer would have to look into how the plugin works.

Let me know if you're interested, email is

[boka003]

Thank You @Sir Osis of Liver and @Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

Is there any example in documentation how i can do this?
I did not use smf before.

[Illori]

https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Paid_subscriptions

have you read the above link?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

The login redirect requires custom coding, did it a while ago for 2.0 forum.  Should work in 2.1, will try it if you're interested in using it.

[shnazzle]

We're going down this route soon.
Not WordPress but as for the subscriptions, it's a case of redefining the baseline.

So now, everybody becomes a registered user once they sign up.
Then they are "Regular User"s and can see most things.

Easy solution is to remove all access for Regular User, only a dedicated category for newly registered people,with details on how to sign-up to full access.
Then when they do, using the subscriptions, access is opened up according to the level they paid for.

[Biology Forums]

Problem is only PayPal is accepted... 😥

[Kindred]

Yes, but paypal can accept multiple external sources as well,  including venom

Or,  I think someone made a stripe mod