Are there any of you out there that are running a Snitz site with paid membership accounts? I am considering adding a few levels of membership to my site, based on paid memberships. I would like to keep the free/open accounts but would like to offer premium accounts that give members added rights (like photo uploads) with their paid subscriptions.
Have any of you taken this leap? If so, how do you handle the account management?
What Snitz MODS or site features make good candidates for premium type services? So far, I was thinking photo uploads, site based email addresses, classified ads, etc.
Like many of you my Snitz site started small and has grown into something much larger. I sure would like to cover my site costs and put a little "pay back" money in my site moderators hands for their efforts.
User Groups mod would be good, put paid members in one group and other members in another. You would need to add code at the top of pages to secure them, it think there is an IsGroupMember function so
so
If Not IsGroupMember(MemberID, IdForSecureGroupHere) then
put message here to say page cannot be viewed
Response.End
End If
Thank you for your reply. I will lookup the User Groups mod to see how I could use that. I would like to give these premium members a special avatar in their mini-profile area. This sounds like a mod that would help in that area. Still looking forward to any other site owners who have done this.
I'm doing it, using the UserGroups mod. A guy helped me implement automatic PayPal payments, plus a manual payment (check, money order) processing/accounting system. Check it out and you can see that I'm diplaying a "Member" icon in the location where avatars would be displayed (I have avatars turned off)...
If you'll search the archives for this Mods forum, there are topics describing (in general terms) how I did it.
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Posted - 31 March 2004 : 03:04:32
