Membership to publish content?

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Linda
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I am developing a site where you can pay to publish ads for which Pay to Publish seems a perfect module.

However, I also have membership plans (gold, silver) that enables users to publish a certain amount of ads of a certain type (the same types as the individually bought ones). This can be recurring plans or one time deals. I can't really find if this is possible in Pay to Publish or if I need Membership Suite for that (will even work together?).

Could you please advise me?

Leighton Whiting
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It sounds like you are doing

It sounds like you are doing sort of a 'credit' system, where users get a certain number of ads to publish. This would not be supported by either module out of the box. You would need to make a custom module to keep track of how many 'credits' the users have left.

Pay to Publish is great for letting users pay each time they want to publish a piece of content.

Membership Suite is great for letting Gold Members for example publish as many nodes of a certain content type as they want.

Both modules can be used together on one site just fine.

Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting

Linda
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Thanks for the fast reply!

Thanks for the fast reply! Too bad that doesn't work out of the box.

Maybe it's a feature you could consider for a new (major) release? It would be great if we could make membership plans with credits, so people can buy f.i. 10 ads of a certain type with a discount and then use them when they want (with an expiration date on the plan, so the credits would stay valid for a year or so).

Anyway, for now I will get by with just making membership plans for unlimited ads in different categories.

whitemoon
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Need the same !

Hello,

I need to the same fonction, users can pay to publish a certain ammount of ads. How can i do that ?!

Leighton Whiting
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I've actually had a few ideas

I've actually had a few ideas on how to get close to this.

I've been considering making a payment gateway module that will provide a balance for users on the site. This would allow users to credit their account with money, then they could use that balance to publish nodes.

Another similar consideration I've had is making a module that would allow users to purchase User Points, and also allow users to spend their User Points on items in the store.

Thoughts?

Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting

Abilnet
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Connection with User Points

Connection with User Points sounds just great, very useful and opens a lot of possibilities!

Abilnet
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The more I'm thinking about

The more I'm thinking about this, the greater possibilities I can see... any news about balance system & integration with User Points -module?

Leighton Whiting
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Abilnet, I have a new payment

Abilnet,

I have a new payment gateway, working on my site, called 'ms_userpoints', which will allow users to use their userpoints to make purchases. You can choose which userpoint types can be used as currency, and what the conversion rate is (how many points equal 1 dollar/euro, etc). I'm also thinking about adding functionality to let users pay to purchase points, thereby adding credit to their accounts. That way you could do something like making 80 points equivalent to 1 dollar for selling, but 100 points equivalent to 1 dollar for buying, or vice-versa. But that would have to wait until after the gateway module has received more testing.

Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting

Abilnet
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This is absolutely great,

This is absolutely great, looking forward for the new payment gateway, your fast development highly appreciated as always!

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