Subscription Model

I was just thinking and wanted to share with you guys here….

...have you considered some form of subscription service that allows for easy integration into 3rd party websites?

For example, if I ran a service website and wanted to generate a little income for the running of it, I might charge users X amount for feature Y. Pretty standard model.

But to put together the infrastructure to do this, handling payments, security, etc…. might be over some peoples heads?

A simple API system that can handle this might be useful (or may even exists, and if so please point me in the direction).

Many thanks

I’m not sure if this is going to be possible. How are you going to accept payment? Each app has a way to do that. Some uses PayPal, fastspring, process the payment themselves, or simply put the product in Envato markets.

The features you are going to unlock are tied to your application; It means that you need to change/hack your application core to limit/make access to these feature, and also follow payments or users that paid.

I think every application should develop its own system.

I have two sites that run subscription models through PayPal.

They are custom PHP sites I built myself making it a lot easier to integrate PayPal simply because I know the ins and outs of my code but PayPal is pretty simple to work with. The only area that it can get fuzzy is with cancellations etc.

It deff works too. I have a site I started last winter and since 27,000 people have registered and a lot of them have opted in for the $3 “Pro” accounts. Most of it is pricing and making sure you are not asking to much for the content. And if you plan on doing volume you can lower the price even more to look more attractive as in the end you will make even more.