Help with a Use Case: Metered Posting to CBActivity Stream for CBSubs Subscriber

Hi! I have a use case, and I was wondering if the Joomlapolis mods/admins/developers, or other users here in the forum, could help provide feedback for the direction I should take to hopefully enable this specific use case:

I have a local news website that sells "Sponsorships" at four different tiers, using CBSubs. The higher the tier, the more available features, including more frequent access to post to a "Sponsors News" area. I was planning to set this up via a Sponsors-only GroupJive Group, then use a CBActivity stream module to display the wall posts from this Sponsors group to all users. From what I understand, this is all supported with the latest CB software.

However, I would like different tiers of Sponsors (CBSubs subscribers) to have their Sponsors News updates metered by tier: able to post/publish 1x/month, week, day, etc. This is what I don't know how to enable, or whether it's possible as-is within CB software.

I'm open to any direction as to how to approach metering CBActivity stream posts, or even using a different method within/leveraging Joomla. Likewise, some manual production is fine, however, automation is ideal.

I love how CBActivity will make it easy for my sponsors to "publish" ala how they're already doing it on social media. If I can get timed access to this feature set up by tier, it would be awesome!

I welcome any feedback and questions as to how I might approach this. I appreciate your consideration and feedback. Cheers!

There's no post limit functionality in CB Activity. So I'm not quite sure how you'd go about this. The only thing I can think of is some complicated permission swapping by giving them a usergroup and taking it away once they hit the limit, which is doable using CB Auto Actions but again a bit of a complication to setup. Will review adding a create limit for a future release to allow support for this, but that might be pretty complicated as it'd need to be per-stream per-stream-asset. Sponsored posts are also a feature planned in a future release so that might be a better feature for you eventually.

Thanks much for your feedback, information and for considering these needs within your software development strategy. I agree that I don't want to get too bogged down with something too complicated ... I'll be able to find a middle ground by adjusting how we offer our promotions.

Can CBActivity streams be set to require moderation? This might be a solution for me, as I could handle the production and tracking overhead manually for metered access, since we're of a small size. (E.g. I watch for new Activity posts to approve, and do so if the Sponsor hasn't hit their quota.)

Can CBActivity streams be set to require moderation?

Absolutely! Edit the stream, or create a new one, that you want post approval on. Then under the Create tab set Approval to Enable.

Approval can send a notification to stream moderators to let them know a post needs approval. In addition to that you can configure a stream filter so you can filter the stream to posts pending approval using the below.

Filter: Pending Approval
Access: Public
Restricted: Stream Moderators
Assets: pendingonly