Paid Forum Help!

[evolution2]

I'd like to offer a paid forum to some of my visitors, and offer the same subscription for free to others that purchase something else from me, and I'm having a difficult time accomplishing this.

What would be best would be to have a promo code for the subscription so I could give the code to those who I wish to have the subscription for free, but I've yet to find a way to do this.

I could also create a subscription at two price points, one paid and one free, but I don't see a way to give the payment link out to only one of those choices.

Can anyone help me? I thought this would be an easy requirement :)

[betterthanyours]

What is your forum? What is it about? What exactly are you after?

Everything you posted doesn't make sense because you did not explain those things.

[evolution2]

I don't see why any of that is relevant, but please see my modified question below:

I run a forum about potatoes. Here is exactly what I am after. I'd like to offer a paid forum to some of my visitors, and offer the same subscription for free to others that purchase something else from me, and I'm having a difficult time accomplishing this.

What would be best would be to have a promo code for the subscription so I could give the code to those who I wish to have the subscription for free, but I've yet to find a way to do this.

I could also create a subscription at two price points, one paid and one free, but I don't see a way to give the payment link out to only one of those choices.

Can anyone help me? I thought this would be an easy requirement

[Shazz]

The promo code idea is the best option I would go for. It's not default in vB settings and I haven't see a free modification for it.
You can manually add users one by one in the admincp. Paying someone to put this into play is the best option I'd use.

[New Joe]

What kind of potatoes?

[Madpoodle]

Setup a usergroup for the paid subscribers, and allow that usergroup access to whatever special benefits you plan to offer..