does the old hack work? any further discussion or ideas on how well this works? i am interested in seeing how things are going...

blessings,
amity

We actually succesfully launched a two tier system this weekend, and our users are signing up faster than we expected. We save all the vb pretty bonus features for paying members and make basic just posting and reading.

hey, i went to your big soccer forums and i am wondering how you are working your two tier membership? what are you offering the different members? how much are you charging? has anyone complained?

also, i love the way you have a side bar with your chat, store, etc. can you share your template that you used for that? i would like to add a side bar to my forums as well.

great job
amity

huss,

Did you hire a programmer to make the little system? How did you get ahold of something like that?

Dan

There's a code that 2checkout gives out for basic membership stuff, plus that code isn't something hard. All you need to do is have two usegroups and based on results of transactiosn move the users around them. Nothing hard.

I'll probably going to be having a donation membership option to get free stuff, don't know if it will be monthly or just a one time small donation. I am going to use the template modification where for ads for non contributing members. Sounds easy to integrate and I'll be giving away more things.

Are there any of these in developement?

Will there be one out? etc....

If nothing if moving....I'd love to pay a VERY skilled programmer/developer to bring it all to life.

Thanks!

Yeh, nothing hard for a php programmer... :ermm:

I am sure it isnt hard since you have to get the correct transfer protocalls so that you can submit those nice little credit card transactions... but since gaypal usual wont let you do that unless you pay them like 8000 a month... :p

Well if any skilled programmers want a job doing it, contact me asap!

It pays too

We wrote it from scratch. Frist it checks if you are subbed. If not you can go thru sub checkout. That connects to 2checkout recurring biling. Then your usergroup and your styleset are chnaged. Then you see the site in the new style and the usergroup gives you access to ce3rtain forums. The styleset has all the features like forumjump and no ads that the default set doesn't.

/we started with donations. the response was so high we decided to make it a legit program. when we launched 2 tiers, all the donaters got upgrade credit. the recurring billing is the key to long term success imho.

huss: yeah i agree, however I am just testing it out and if I get a good response will develop the program further. Except I have no clue where to start developing a script so hopefully by then one will be released.

I need a lil hacker help.

In showthread, I wanna check a user's usergroup, and if it is say 6 (i.e premium member) print 'xyz' by their name.

Help?

In admin/functions.php under Start buildpostbit add:

// Premium Members
if ($post[usergroupid]==6)
$premiummember = 'xyz';
else
$premiummember = "";
// End Premium Members

Then in your postbit template where you want the xyz to appear add:

$premiummember

Hmmm... how about, plain and simple, create a special usergroup for donators, and when they're put in it, they get to use custom styles and template sets, whereas non-contributing members get the basic Vbulletin look? Probly would only need a simple hack to prevent the changing of styles if they're not in the usergroup...

Guys,

This looks like an awesome hack, we would certinaly be interested, has it been released, or is it available for purchase. I read the whole thread but didn't see that anything was released by wluke did I miss something

I have a system in the works. If anyone wants the system faster they can contact me at twilightstar0@hotmail.com for information.

Can you tell us more about your system?

not on vb.org

once I have it somewhat done I will post info about it.

I have read most of these thread and with no disrespect to anyone here, I think some folks do not have a good sense of what you have to provide in terms of additional features to get your members to pay in a meaningful way.

We run elitefitness.com, the largest site for bodybuilders and one of the largest vBulletin's. A few stats -- we have about 40,000 visitors a day and we serve about a half million pages a day. We have just over 1079 members paying on average $11 per month. That's nice revenue, but we have a monthly ISP bill of over $4,000, so we have to charge -- there's just no way around it. Here's what we offer our "Platinum" members (taken from our sales letter):

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Post as many pictures as you like anywhere! Uploaded from your PC, or using the [IMG] tags.
Access full size pics when you click any thumbnail on all the Picture Boards Including:

Pictures of Gear (Never get fake gear again)
Pictures of Our Members (Check out our members)
Pictures of Men (For the ladies)
Pictures of Women (Hot and sexy!)
Pictures of Competitors (Amazing Pro Physiques)

Access the private Platinum Hardcore discussion board!
Access the private My Training Journal board!
Access the private Best of Elite Fitness archive board!
Platinum Chat -- so you can chat live with all the other members, moderators, and me! Private and Uncensored! We use volano chat.
Become eligible for special Prizes and Contests!
Priority for becoming a Moderator!
Free Telephone and Free Email Support!
Special Stars and 150 free Karma points for supporting the site!
Get 200 PMs (private messages) mailbox size. Regular users only get 50 PMs.
Turbo Code -- this makes the boards run 50% faster -- just for Platinum Members.
Personal Photo Gallery -- Access your own photo gallery of every image you ever posted and see every member's photo gallery -- full size images!
Task Bar Ticker -- Just like the stock exchange -- see the latest posts as they are made scroll by!
Images in Signatures! -- back by popular demand, put a picture in your signature for the whole board to see!
Stealth Web Address -- Does your boss know you surf Elite? Using the stealth address, your boss or company's IT department will think you are checking a PC Technical Support web site, because that's what the web address (URL) will look like to them. In fact, you'll be surfing the elitefitness.com boards at work -- not getting caught!
Get your own Avatar (Profile Picture) right away -- no waiting!
Use the new advanced Spell Checker!
No Advertisements -- NO banner ads and NO pop-up ads!
You save the $40 initiation fee!
You get a permanent 10% discount on all products at MassQuantities.com (on top of any other discount) plus other exclusive discounts and specials. Make your membership pay for itself!
Plus, for signing up before midnight Saturday, December 14, 2002, you get seven free bonus reports -- a $273 value, all for Free! including:
The 7-day DNP Fat Loss Inferno Cycle -- a $39 value, yours FREE!
Modafinil: Science Makes Sleep Obsolete -- a $39 value, yours FREE!
Xyrem -- New Pharmaceutical GHB -- a $39 value, yours FREE!
Why Billy has Breasts -- Understanding and preventing gynocomastia -- a $39 value, yours FREE!
Botox for Bodybuilders -- Do it yourself guide! -- a $39 value, yours FREE!
Engineered viral delivery of IGF-1 for huge muscles -- a $39 value, yours FREE!
Huge GHB busts! And how two athletes beat the system and got off! -- a $39 value, yours FREE!

Only $8.98 per month -- Less than a movie! When you join for three months and get an extra month FREE! And we'll waive the $40 initiation fee.
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Even with all this, we still have trouble keeping our members paying. Two things we are considering are closing the boards to new non-paying members, and making the search a paid feature.

We spent a small fortune developing this and it runs on 2.6

Click here for our site:
http://www.elitefitness.com

Here for our boards:
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/index.php

And here for how we market our Platinum memberships:
http://www.elitefitness.com/reports/platinum/

I would be happy to provide the entirity of our code to someone who could port it over to the new version 3.0 and then we could give it away or sell it as a complete hack.

It would be great to hear from the other sites that have actually implemented a paid membership program and more specifically, hear from sites that have a significant number of paying members.

I plan to implement this very soon. My system won't be as complex, as I haven't found a hack to do it.

I am running 2..2.9 so if anyone knows of one please let me know.

What I want for contributing members at a price of $5/month:

1. They get another special title under name.
2. They get access to a contributing members forum. This forum is key and will hold hundreds of technical documents all in PDF format. Documents added monthly.
3. A monthly publication
4. Access to a forum to ask questions and a website tech answers (technical automotive questions).
5. Ability to upload an avater

The main thing people will like is the publications we will release. They will be how to documents and more.

Anyone know of a hack where I could put peole an a usergroup and they can get access to a special forum, custom avaters, and be able to have another title that says "Contributing Member" under name?

Hope to hear some feedback.

Im only making mines a special category access, plus they get some extra cash donned into their banks

im going to do it for 2 bucks a month

I offer a subscription-based system using some ideas from this thread (great discussion, by the way), and I have found that most users are not willing to pay more than a couple of bucks a month.

Best of luck to my fellow webmasters out there!

Kaelon

There seems to be more than a couple of hackers working on this hack with their own versions ...!

Anyone have some kind of demo links ... or if u want me to, i can beta test for you.

Let me know, and i'd be very much interested in such a hack.

Cheers

I have been working recently on a system for my forums. Photo in profile, vbpad, double points for posting, and loads of other priviliges around the site for donator. It's all automated too and memberships expire after a year automatically. Also i plan to modify it so you can have lifetime memberships and have a price for each tier of membership whether it be 1year,2years or 50years :)

- miSt

I have just installed an Addon that does some of this. Here's a link:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=53320

bandersen - That link tells me, i have no authority to acces that page ? :(

Anything out as yet ??

Thanks

I guess the hack was removed as it became a paid hack - but it handles paid memberships...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...light=vbtrader

link

Theres a addon for vBtrader. I don't know where it went either. I think they deleted it because it was a sign of promotion tho it was free. The add on was done with pay-pal and only needed slight modifacation.

PM traffix and I'm sure he'd had ya a copy of the integration. He's a good guy.

all of this in VB3!

using paycom/epochsystems. anyone else using them ?

please dont bump up dead threads:)