Best Way to Implement Membership Site

[Hammer107]

Hello,

I am building a membership site that will use wordpress and vbulletin. I would like the wordpress site to be open to public and the forum available to paying members.

I only plan to have one tier....paid or unpaid....but inside the paid groups I would like to restrict forum access based either on time or the ability to pass a test allowing them to go to the next level.

What is the best way to implement a membership site with VB that is full featured, meaning handles signups, payments, status updates etc all automatically. Is there a vbulletin mod or script that is designed to integrate with vbulletin that is preferred versus others?

Thanks for any input.

[markbolyard]

This can all be done within vBulletin utilizing the subscriptions manager and usergroup permissions. Your forum would be set up as private, you would sell your memberships though the subscription manager. When a visitor purchases a subscription, their usergroup level is changed, granting them access to all forums (or the forums you prefer). This means you can actually have many forums and based on the subscription level, set it so they can see One forum prior to buying the membership, and then additional forums (or all forums) once they buy the membership. Subscriptions are based on time, so one could purchase a subscription for a day, a week, a month, year.... whatever you decide. As far as the test... that would require a custom modification, or simply a form that they would complete and email to you that would allow you to manually change their access level.

Hope that helps.