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I want to start charging for new members to join my forum. How do I set this up>? I have looked in configuration menu in ACP and set up paypal settings, but this doesn't work. Any ideas?

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[Michalis]

I have asked thi in another post in a different way
& found that I am still facing this prob that you
are. I know much of it is to do with group admin in acp

So I have found no pure instructions yet on getting this working.

[richiebgood]

set up all forums as being private

set up a usergroup that needs to be paid to join

this usergroup can see all forums

job done.

[MWE_001]

nice richiebgood

[richiebgood]

No bother lads.. I learned a lot so its my duty to give a little back.

Don't forget to check out my site.... you can't miss the link in my sig <img>

[shamroc]

THanks for your help Riche. I tried what you suggested but had a problem. I created a standard member group in Group Admin and then set forum to be private. Then if a member wanted to use that group, what you say worked and the user is advised to pay. However, i wanted existing members to be in this group and even tho I can modify forum access for all those in a standard member group , I have to go into each users profil;e individually to set it up.

However, I want to set up sub.scription for New Users only and at the registration stage, can this be done?

[richiebgood]

There is an option where you can set a min post count. I tried to set up a test group there with a min post of 1 needed. I think pressed the 'update users' buttom. Nothing happened.

I assume thatn this is ment to add all the users with a min of 1 post into the group. This may be a question for helter or other wise men

[Michalis]

hi guys unfortunatly it did not work for me for the following

set up all forums as being private

set up a usergroup that needs to be paid to join

this usergroup can see all forums

job done.

here is my post what else i have done so far to get this to work, can someone check this please to see if I am still on right track.

http://www.integramod.com/forum/viewtop ... highlight=

[Michalis]

can someone maybe help me out please I could even make a temp admin to my forum for the person who can help check my setting s& stuff <img>

any help will be very much appreciated..

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

If you have existing users on your site that you want added to the group, when you create the group, CLICK the box that says 'Add/Update new users '. This will transfer all the users into that group.

NOTE: I don't think you can set it up as once you pay your in. At least I tried,

The issue I find is setting up group permissions. It says you can set it up, but gives you no options other than moderator ON/OFF

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Something you could try is setup group and permissions. Make site private.
Leave one section open to guests and post a note that to access site, you require a $20 donation.

In the ACP>General Admin>Configuration

At the bottom, you can set donations minimum = 20
Once donation made, user joins group id = whatever the group id is.

There is an option for 2 group donations.

20 gets you in one group with partial access
35 gets you full access

Might be worth a try.

[Michalis]

this is what i dide before

Ok I am going into ACP then selecting Group Adminthen selecting the group i made subscribed membersok now in the details group status I have selected Payment Group

Number of required posts: I put zero
Number of max posts: I put zero

I also selected Add/Update new users

I pressed submit & went back into the group i created after a successful update & see that Add/Update new users was not selected.

I have also done a test where i made the forum all private & not registered hidden. made a new user and still it did not ask me to pay

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

I don't know what's going on.
I had setup a pay forum. Most of the site was free and the one section was setup for pay-group only access.
When trying to access this area, you were required to pay and couldn't view it.
It worked well. Now I can't get it to work anymore. Like I said, it won't allow setting up permissions in group permissions. Something changed since then.

[Michael Lundie]

I think there may be an error in the GroupCP form. My first idea would have been for you to create an Auto Join group. Automatically add everyone to this group and then change it to a payment group once you had current users in there.

I'm assuming you can't add members to a payment group yourself, since it is a payment group. But I didn't look in the code or try it, so I could be wrong?

If you create an autojoin group and in the 'Number of Req Posts' field put '0'. Then In 'Number of MAX posts' put '1'. Select 'Users Auto add When Posting' and Add/Update users. It will add everyone in your forum that have a post count of '0'.

I believe the 'Number of required posts' field may be causing the form to only update/add users with that amount of posts.

I didn't have a problem setting permissions for a paid group however.

I may be able to take a closer look at this the weekend comming up. In the mean time, perhaps this may help anyone else who wants to have a shot at figuring this out. =) Perhaps simply adding an 'Add all users' button might be a quick fix. Again, if I get the chance, I'll program one this weekend! (I need to do this for my own forum anyway. ^^)

Hope my waffling has been of a little help. Good luck!

[Helter]

I think there may be an error in the GroupCP form.

this could explain alot of other permission issues also. Ill be eager to see your results