Pre-sale question – Pay Per Post / Reply to?

I am very interested in S2 and heard many good things about integration to systems like BuddyPress.

Specifically, I was hoping for some kind of confirmation if it can handle the following scenario. I went through a few videos, but did not find a conclusive answer:

1. I want an initial registration fee to exist to have individuals become members (that I may choose to gift). The difference between a member and guest is simply ability to access ‘free content’.
2. I would like the ability for people to pay to POST a new thread (similar to this one I am typing now), or reply / expand on a topic in a current thread. Can this be accomplished / integrated in a fairly seamless manner?

I understand “seamless” is developer responsibility really, but I do appreciate the clarity and confidence on the capability of this technology to be deployed in this manner.

We will certainly be purchasing the solution if we can sort out these questions.

Best,

James

Hi James.

1. I want an initial registration fee to exist to have individuals become members (that I may choose to gift). The difference between a member and guest is simply ability to access ‘free content’.

Yes, you can do that. You can have Open Registrations for free users, and they’d have access to what’s public or protected at Level 0.

The paid content can be protected at Level 1 or higher, and those would be the levels you sell to the users to gain that access to content that isn’t free.

You can give a user any access manually editing their profiles without having them pay.

2. I would like the ability for people to pay to POST a new thread (similar to this one I am typing now), or reply / expand on a topic in a current thread. Can this be accomplished / integrated in a fairly seamless manner?

Here we’re using a customized installation of bbPress. WordPress normally doesn’t allow users to create pages/posts, and s2Member doesn’t add that ability.

s2Member can be integrated with bbPress to have some control over user’s access to the forums, although it’s not full control yet. You can read more about it here: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Other Integrations -› bbPress®[/hilite]

Video » s2Member (bbPress Bridge Integration)

I hope that helps. :)