Paid Subscription but after a FREE trial

[Iron Guard]

Hi,

I am planning to put some forums and ability to add avatars and images under a Paid Subscription plan.

However I would like users to try this subscription FREE for a month (or any other fixed interval), when they register, before actually paying for the subscription.

Now can I do this on vbulletin?

Can we disallow access to paid subscription features (avatars and some forums) after the free trial period is expired and ask them to pay to continue using those features?

Thanks for your help.

[macahs]

I'd love to know the answer to this as well. :)

[bdude]

This would be an interesting idea too.

[Lynne]

Can't you do this:

The user registers and gets put into the Registered Users group. This is the group with permissions you want to give the Trial user and has almost all (perhaps even all?) the same permissions as the Subscribed User group.

Make another usergroup that has limited access (Limited Access Group?). This is the group you want them to be moved to after the free trial and that does not have all the neat privileges as the Subscribed User group.

Make a Promotion (or in this case it will be a Demotion) that takes all users from the Registered User group and dumps them in the Limited Access Group after they have been registered for a month.

[D0ubleStakked]

I've been looking to do something very similar, and I found this post from vbulletin.com

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-184194.html

This gives you the actual steps to implement what Lynne recommended.

-Brian