The Paid Plans app would be a hundred times more useful if it could be used with the Wix Forum. Customers with paid plans would have access to specific categories on the forum. They could also have a unique icon/symbol next to their username showing that they have a payed plan. I think this would be a great way to monetize the forum and to get more engagement, and it would give users more of a reason to sign up for a payed plan. Could this be done in a future update? I think it would prove to be very beneficial to not just me, but everyone else using the Paid Plans app.
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We totally agree! In your own example what categories you would make paid?
@Domas Sabockis -- this would be so much easier to allow the selection of MEMBER ROLES that can access categories in the forum. Paid plans, sure, but ROLES are so much more useful since free access could be granted for exceptionally helpful members (and you guys at Wix haven't created the option to have a free "Paid Plan" that can be "secret" or separated from the other Paid Plans.)
Example:
We have a mentorship (teaching) program where the primary forum has general discussion categories, but I want to put the mentorships into my Forum as well in categories that can only be accessed by MEMBER ROLES. E.g. "the XYZ Mentorship is ready to begin; only available to XYZ selectees!"
In truth, I'm having to pay some other forum website service to host my mentorships without the option to select MEMBER ROLES permissions with Wix.
Forget Paid Plans really; I'm moving away from those because I discovered you guys have prevented us from creating separate distinct instances of Paid Plans––I just created my own buttons for the payment options instead. MEMBER ROLES permissions options in categories is the way to go, just like you have them for pages.