User has to pay to post

Right - first off thx ever so much for all help, cant believe I've made it this far so quickly!!!

Anyway my question; now that I have got the members login setup I want them to be able to add posts as well.. however what I want to do is charge them per post, for instance £1.

I understand this in basic terms, so for instance they would hit 'post' and then it would go to some sort of authentication and then if the payment is made then it would post ok.

However I am not sure how to implement this or what would be the best option. I don't want to have to store credit card details on my own site due to the associated security risks etc. I would rather have them hit 'post' and then it goes to some sort merchant page, enter details, pay and then return to my site where it has posted.


Can anyone give me some help with this plz :ehh:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...erview-outside

There are fees, but you'll find that with just about any third party payment processing.

Hmmm cool - it actually costs to implement the Pro version so I cant really go for that yet --- I'm looking at the subscription idea instead.

Do you know if its possible to do a check each time the user logsin to find out if they are subscribed to my service? ie. if they are it logsin ok, if not goes to subscription page etc...


Paypal seems to be the best option do the free signup and no monthly fees so far...

Are you storing whether or not they are subscribed to your service? If so, then yes, it is possible to check.

How would I know if they are subscribed to my service? What I mean is that what if they unsubscribe to my service - I would need to pass that info to my website so it can record not to let them login etc.

I found it out - its to do with IPN, Ill post a link if I find a good one...

I have no idea what you're talking about. Shouldn't your system know if they are subscribed to your system? Sounds intuitive to me.

It's ok now, I just wasnt sure how the paypal would tell my system if a user is subscribed but I checked more about it and worked it out...