Figuring out how to generate revenue from your forum can be a challenge. We’ve combined some of the tools you need to make monetizing your forum easy. Show your users upgrades at the right time, in the right place, in a way that appeals to the right users. Set up a paywall to require a subscription before accessing your forum. Display sponsors for specific nodes. Replace words with different words or a link, and change links posted in your forum to affiliate links. Plus, set schedules for alerts, emails, and automated messages. No matter which method you choose to generate revenue or a combination of methods, Monetize will help.
Affiliate Links and Keywords Features
- Add affiliate data to links posted in your forum so you can earn commission for your affiliate links
- Replace words or phrases with a link to a URL or text
- Choose the maximum number of total keyword replacements to make per page
- Choose the maximum number of keyword replacements to make per word per page
- Determine who will use the affiliate link when it is clicked or who will see the replaced content with user criteria
Sponsors Features
- Add a sponsor to specific nodes
- List sponsors in a sponsors directory
- Add the sponsor’s URL and an image to the node
- Determine the width and height of the image
User Upgrade Features
- Set up a paywall with the option to require users to purchase an upgrade as a part of the registration process
- Create multiple upgrade pages so you can display different upgrades to different users and on different dates with user criteria and page criteria
- Display individual features next to each user upgrade so users can understand what is included in each upgrade
- Create attractively designed upgrade pages to encourage users to purchase
- Style your user upgrades with colors, shapes, and icons
- Suggest upgrades to users instead of showing no permission errors, including the ability to exclude specific permission failures or content types
- Adds new user criteria for number of active upgrades and expiring upgrades
- Create a free user upgrade option
- Allow guests to view user upgrades
- Allow users to override above the cost set in the user upgrade when they are purchasing the upgrade
Communication Features
- Create automated alerts, messages, and emails
- Schedule sending automated communication, from daily to monthly
- Choose who will receive the automated communication by setting user upgrade criteria and/or user criteria
- Set limits to how many alerts, messages, and emails a user can receive in a given period
- Default communications include sending users an alert to thank them for purchasing an upgrade, a message to let a user know that their upgrade is about to expire, and an email to let them know that their upgrade has just expired
Monetize Figuring out how to create revenue from your forum can be a challenge. We’ve combined some of the tools you need to simplify monetizing your forum. Display your user upgrades at the right time, in the right place, to the right users in…
Version 1.0.2 released !
Changes :
Added a number of keyword replacement options to fine-tune keyword replacement (match case, match in word and match accented letters).
Resolved a number of unknown getters and non-object errors.
Added user criteria for user upgrade last updated.
Resolved a number of issues with communication criteria.
Resolved a couple of permission inheritance issues.
Added a “share upgrade link” to allow linking user upgrades externally
Added the ability to purchase user upgrades multiple times, stacking duration.
Version 1.0.2 Patch Level 1 Changes :
Resolved an issue that would cause free upgrades to receive payment receipts.
Resolved an issue that would cause the keyword replacement counter to increase per post even if no replacement took place.
Resolved an issue that would prevent custom user upgrade costs to not work if a minimum amount was defined.
Resolved a styling issue with the “upgrade is required” message on uix based styles.
Version 1.1.0 Changes :
Resolves potential error when upgrading
Resolves issue with incorrect upgrade link on no permissions page
Adds the ability to enter notes in the ACP for sponsors
Adds the ability to filter user upgrades by monthly and annual
Adds the ability to enter additional information for upgrade features
Version 1.1.1 Changes :
Fixed a bug with upgrade feature descriptions not always expanding properly
Fixed a bug with communication entires redirecting to the wrong location after saving
Fixed a bug with communication entires not pre-selecting the type field when editing
Improved the upgrade page filters so they only show if upgrades are broken down by monthly and annual
Added the ability to disable the monthly/annual filters completely
Added free upgrades to show as a card but will not be set up as an upgrade when a user selects it
Added an optional redirect URL to send the user to after upgrading
Version 1.1.1 Patch Level 1 Changes : Fixes several issues relating to the Communications functionality
Version 1.1.2 Changes : Make monetize data available on API
Version 1.1.5 :
1.1.3 – User criteria for upgrades
1.1.4 – Set routes for showing upgrade page on no permissions
1.1.5 – Exclude forums and usergroups from keyword replacement
Version 1.1.5 Patch Level 1 : Adds an option to show upgrade notice to guests.
Version 1.1.5 Patch Level 2 : Keyword replacement content type exclusion.
Version 1.1.5 Patch Level 3 : Fixes keyword replacement performance issues
Version 1.1.5 Patch Level 4 : Fixes legacy upgrade step issue
Version 1.1.5 Patch Level 5 :
Requires a “From user” for Message communications
Fixes issue with “From user” being auto-populated on edit if it was intentionally left blank before
