After registration it is as easy as to create a Paid Subscription (default vB).

Closing the entire board until paid is something you really should reconsider. Allowing unpaying members to part of the forums has a lot of benefits:
- People are more likely to pay once they can have an impression of what to get.
- It is very convenient to have 1 forum open to unpaying members, also to help when someone needs assistence in buying or renewing their subscription.

thats worth a read! thank you so much!

Thanks for the info :)

I been looking around and found this program : aMember Pro

I think I will give it a try, if anyone got some feedback on the program that would be great.

did you try this, fireboxssl?

we have a subset of our bulletin board members who belong to a particular military veterans association. There is a forum that is restricted to just those guys, where we want to enable them to pay their dues and purchase hats, shirts, etc. online.

I've been looking for a means of using PayPal to implement this.

I'd like to know what you've found.