Forum software or add on to make users pay for posts?

[linux.poet]

Right now I'm looking to build a RPG forum where the users get a certain amount of free posts each day and then have to pay to get more posts - they have to buy them - after a certain limit. (Essentially, paid-to-post in reverse.) What is the best way to accomplish this with forum software?

I think it might be possible to have a posts sale item in Dragonbyte shop, but I also need something that restricts the user from posting in a section after so many posts per day. Like a post counter for the number of posts remaining that the user can top up using money or waiting 24 hours. What is the best forum software to use for this sort of system?

 

[Nomad]

I have something similar in mind. I am thinking of a community where users will have to pay to publish content. However, instead of normal forum posts, these will be digital items put on sell. It would be something like a multi-vendor ecommerce site but I want to use community software.
I will be looking forward to the responses on this thread.

 

[linux.poet]

@Rudolph After not seeing a lot of response to this thread, I decided to google and dig around. It's not common.

Add-on - Pay per Post

I will pay to have this add-on developed. Please contact me if you are interested. I'm looking for a Pay for Post add-on where registered users pay a set $ amount (via Paypal) to create a new thread in a specific category. I can't image that no one has created something like this.

xenforo.com

Pay to post Add On

Is there an add on which can: Configure credit packages for posting threads? Set any forum category to "pay to post a thread"? Buy credit package with the set Payment GW? Show credit balance is user's profile area.

xenforo.com

Basically there might be a way to make DBTech credits and User Upgrades kind of work for this. I also found this interesting add-on: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-limit-per-node-by-addonslab.5466/ but it's too old - it was developed in 2017, and that's an eternity ago in forum software land. Disappointing as that was part of what I was looking for.

There is supposedly some way to do this in vBulletin, but that information might be out of date as well. Still looking for answers from someone more knowledgeable about forum software.

Hopefully this is not something I have to blast down to code to build, as it involves payments. If I was using XF, probably try to build on top of the DragonByte Shop/DBTech system for payments, but then I have to upgrade that post limit code from 2017 somehow to set up the paywall. Ugh.

 

[Nomad]

Maybe it could be configured through membership plans. For instance, we can give access to certain segments of the site only when the member upgrades membership plans. Since the user has paid to access a certain segment of the site, we can also allow the member to post. What do you think?

 

[linux.poet]

Maybe it could be configured through membership plans. For instance, we can give access to certain segments of the site only when the member upgrades membership plans. Since the user has paid to access a certain segment of the site, we can also allow the member to post. What do you think?

That could work for your use case, but not for mine. I wanted a subscription section and a pay-per-Post section on my forum.

 

[Nomad]

Just like we earn some forum credits per post, you want to charge your user's forum credits or real cash per post, right? Looks like there are no add-ons developed for this purpose. Maybe you have to do it manually. For instance, you can put the posts under moderation and approve them only after the users pay for their posts. By the way, some forums charge for the sticky posts, can this add on be configured to charge users for their posts?

 

[Monster Masterpiece]

It is possible that user post but no reward given after reach the limit of posting that what happens every time that means prevent from posting or trendri policy doesn't seems the ideal solution as my point of view.

 

[Mike30]

I could brainstorm on this and see what I can do