PlymWS
08-12-2006, 05:19 PM
Before I commit to buying a vB licence I need some info on a couple of hacks that I would want to implement.
I have been tasked to setup a free community message board. The discussion / chat forums will be free to all users however, in order to generate income to cover server costs, I will require some sort of hack to allow users to pay for certain parts of the site.
Ideally there would be a forum in which users can post attachments. Should another user want the attachment, they would pay the price set by the poster. Then a proportion of the sale price, say 25% would goto a site account and the rest would be given to the original poster.
I would prefer not to use Paypal because of the handling charge of 3% however if this can not be avoided, so be it.
In short I would need the following :
Users able to post attachments and specify sale price.
Users who haven't paid for the attachment would only see a message suggesting that they need to pay to download the attachment.
Billing hack to enable users to pay for access to the attachment.
Obviously I would need all of the billing / subscription side of things to be automated and if possible, a box in the users public profile would show which attachments they have paid to view.
If anyone can recommend a hack that would enable all of this, I would be very greatful.
I have been tasked to setup a free community message board. The discussion / chat forums will be free to all users however, in order to generate income to cover server costs, I will require some sort of hack to allow users to pay for certain parts of the site.
Ideally there would be a forum in which users can post attachments. Should another user want the attachment, they would pay the price set by the poster. Then a proportion of the sale price, say 25% would goto a site account and the rest would be given to the original poster.
I would prefer not to use Paypal because of the handling charge of 3% however if this can not be avoided, so be it.
In short I would need the following :
Users able to post attachments and specify sale price.
Users who haven't paid for the attachment would only see a message suggesting that they need to pay to download the attachment.
Billing hack to enable users to pay for access to the attachment.
Obviously I would need all of the billing / subscription side of things to be automated and if possible, a box in the users public profile would show which attachments they have paid to view.
If anyone can recommend a hack that would enable all of this, I would be very greatful.