IS CBSubs right for me?

Hello all,

I think that CBSubs may be the right solution for my requirements, but I thought I'd ask some questions to find out for certain. Hopefully, one of you kind folk will help me out.

I am building a family website, where people can put up articles and sell them to each other. However, as the prices will be measured in pence, rather than pounds, I am looking to use a credits system. Initially, users will be able to buy credit in £10 lumps (via paypal), and then they can top up as they go. They will also be able to cash those credits in again, when they reaches a minimum of, say, £15.

Anyway, the point is that they will not be paying a subscription, nor will they be paying, via paypal, for each item they buy.

I am therefore looking for a system which means that people MUST buy £10 of credits when they register. This will also help me to prevent spam (I hope), which, on a family website could be disastrous.

So there you go. I’m looking for a system that will insist the person registering pays before using. They will be buying something with their “registration fee”, but that something will be credits. I suspect that I will have to have the credits system written for me, but would like to have it added on to CB, which I presently use.

As an afterthought, would it be possible to make that initial fee £0? Would that be a way of checking that the user has a paypal account, without costing them, or me, any money?

Sorry for the essay, and thank you in advance for your help!

Garford.

Maybe this question should be more at home in the "Presales Questions" rather than here?

Good point. I failed to spot that part of the forum. Perhaps a moderator could move it for me?

Thank you!

Garford.

GarfordJB wrote:

Good point. I failed to spot that part of the forum. Perhaps a moderator could move it for me?

Thank you!

Garford.

Done.

Hello again,

Is there anyone able to help me with this? I'd be much appreciative.

Garford

I am building a family website, where people can put up articles and sell them to each other. However, as the prices will be measured in pence, rather than pounds, I am looking to use a credits system. Initially, users will be able to buy credit in £10 lumps (via paypal), and then they can top up as they go. They will also be able to cash those credits in again, when they reaches a minimum of, say, £15.

No, CBSubs is not a store. Users can not sell produces via CBSubs (this includes subscriptions, etc...). The best approach for such scenario is to have subscription based access and use an affiliates commission system for your writers (iDevAffiliate and PostAffiliatePro official supported).

I suppose you could also setup a payment gateway to each writers paypal account (would require you having access to their accounts or set them up accounts for them). Then using Owner ID link such gateway to a plan which gives access to that authors articles.

I am therefore looking for a system which means that people MUST buy £10 of credits when they register. This will also help me to prevent spam (I hope), which, on a family website could be disastrous.

I suppose you could use CBSubs Fields to update a CB Field based on subscription thus providing users the ability to purchase points. You'd still need an extension to assist in expending said points on articles.