Pay per post/thread.

[solboy]

Hi,

Is their a hack out there that will allow me to charge members a fee to post in certin forums.

This is what I am looking for:
I want it to be setup in a way that when a member hits the Submit button for a post it will take them to a 2checkout/Pay Pal checkout form where they can pay for the post with their credit card. When the payment is made I want the member to be returned to the forum and view their post that they just paid for.

Is their anything out there for this task?

[Erwin]

There is no such hack.

Also, making members pay to post might mean that you won't get many posts, unless of course, your forum is a specialty forum of some sort.

[Dpcows]

Today at 11:22 AM solboy said this in Post #1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=406939#post406939)
Hi,

Is their a hack out there that will allow me to charge members a fee to post in certin forums.

This is what I am looking for:
I want it to be setup in a way that when a member hits the Submit button for a post it will take them to a 2checkout/Pay Pal checkout form where they can pay for the post with their credit card. When the payment is made I want the member to be returned to the forum and view their post that they just paid for.

Is their anything out there for this task?

This hack maybe quite difficult.
Cuz once you hit submit, and goto paypal. You lose all the text the user posted in his post.

Maybe you can say. each thread / post costs an x amount of money. And you have to add "posting" money to your account (with paypal/ect) before posting.

And for each post there account money will be lowered.

Quite a cool hack. but i doubt a lot of people will post if it costs money

[gmarik]

Erwin,

There is such a hack. It has never been released here. But there is. I've seen it.

[Erwin]

Let me rephrase - there is no such hack here at vB.org. I would also doubt that there is such a hack that charges people per post via Paypal. Not many people would need such a hack.

[Dpcows]

Today at 12:50 PM gmarik said this in Post #4 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=406966#post406966)
Erwin,

There is such a hack. It has never been released here. But there is. I've seen it.


Where might you have seen it ?

And i agree with erwin. hardly anyone would need such a hack

[solboy]

I am thinking of using a forum for advertisments.
Every post would qulify as an ad and that would be the reason for payment. The pay method doesn't have to be limited to paypal, there are many paysystems out there such are 2checkout and ravecom.

Such a hack would come in handy. I know that it can be done and I will continue to look for it.

I am sure that some genious in here will figure out how to create one.

[Erwin]

Check out vBTrader, by trafix. It's not a free hack, but you can PM him for more information. It is something similar.

[solboy]

Ok thanks Erwin :)

[trafix]

Just saw this thread ... yes it could be done with the trader :)

[gmarik]

trafix ,
It would be better to integrate it with trader, than the hack I saw. It was somewhere near.

[solboy]

Hi trafix,


I have seen your vbtrader on this page: http://www.atmyparty.com/network/vbtrader.php?s= but I can seem to find any information on its features there.
The auction idea is good but I don't want an auction site now.

Like I said in the above post:
I am thinking of using a forum for advertisements.
Every post would qualify as an ad and that would be the reason for payment. The pay method doesn't have to be limited to paypal, there are many paysystems out there such as 2checkout and worldpay
If a member places a photo in the ad; like ebay; I want a small thumbnail to show a preview of the item on the outside of the thread.

In the administration control panel I want to have the ability to select the forum where ads can be posted. I don?t want the entire site to be one big classified ads forum right now, just a section of it.

Here is a list of features that I am thinking of:

1: Members have the option of paying per post, buying wholesale posts or have an account where they can view how many posts allowances/credits they have and the option of adding more posts allowances/credits to their account.

2: Administrators have the ability to add/remove posts credits/allowances per user from the control panel. Also administrators have the ability to set which Moderators can add/remove credits on members accounts.

3: Checkout system: When a member submits an ad/post they are taken to a checkout page where they can view the cost of the ad and have the option to continue adding posts or checkout. This checkout page will only appear if the member doesn't have any credits/allowances on their account or if the number of adding posts exceeds their credits. This will leave room for more payment options such as checks or mail-order. I also want to have the option of choosing which checkout system I want to use for the forum such as 2checkout or paypal.

4: I also want to have the ability to set some users as premium members where they have unlimited credits/allowances on their account. This will allow for monthly/annual payments for posting.

5: I think that this can be done now with the vbulletin control panel but I want to set a pixel size limit of width/height on photos placed in ads and also the amount of photos that can be inserted in a post.

6: I want to have the ability to set the word and photo limit in posts per user. This will restrict cheating by users who will attempt to place multiple ads in one post.

7: I think this can be done now with vbulletin but I also want to set whether other members can reply to ads such as a Help Wanted or Lost Dog and so on.....

8: I want the member to have an accounts page where they can view every ad that they have posted with the expiration dates next to them, view/hit counts and replies. I want them to see their credit count also and news from the administrator such as specials.

When their credit count gets down to a low number such as 5 or below the number turns red or starts flashing with a subheading of 'refill needed' :)

9: I also want if need be to turn an entire vbulletin forum into a classified ads forum with the features mentioned above.

If anyone can see where I am going with this you can add some more suggested features.

[trafix]

Solboy,

I have changed your user group on atmyparty to give you access to the private hackers forums

[Dpcows]

jees, that's a long list:)

[solboy]

Thanks trafix :)

[ffevo]

Thi sis the 4th similar thread i have posted in. This has to be the number ONE requested hack that noone has come out with. I really need it. Where can i find it? i've even gone as far as contacting Sitepoint abou tit.

[3z3k3l]

looks like someone is going to have to pony up some $$$ to get this, it looks like a great feature, I saw someone post a paid job for it in the classifieds section here, but not sure if it ever got created.

[mastersite]

im trying to collect some donations to get this mod coded.

check out: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=108228

[himerus]

I think I am going to start working on it this weekend... I posted in the other thread, and want some ideas... I already have a few since I've needed this hack as well....

but I'm ready to start on it to get something up for one of my sites...

[ramone_johnny]

Any word on this?

RJ