Pay to Pin Topics

[Adriano Faria]

About This File

This application will help admins to monetize their boards by allowing users to pay to have topics pinned for a given number of days. Admin can allow topics to be pinned per forum and per group settings.

- Requirement:

• Commerce: https://invisioncommunity.com/features/commerce

- Per forum settings:

• Enabled
• Groups allowed to pay to pin topics
• Amounts
  • Amount to pin for 7 days
  • Amount to pin for 15 days
  • Amount to pin for 1 month
  • Amount to pin for 2 months
  • Amount to pin for 3 months
  • Amount to pin for 6 month

More:

 

Edited December 27, 2018 by Adriano Faria

[Adriano Faria]

What's New in Version 1.0.1:

• Fix error when adding a new forum.

[kmk]

Hi, I interest in purchase this application, I have some ideas need to be confirmed. 

1. Can add place option? Example, by 10 days, first place of pin list 15.00, second place of pin list 10.00, third place of pin list 5.00 etc. 

2. When purchase for pin topic, I suppose buyer is who started the topic, is possible after purchase, give some moderation actions automatically to the owner of the topic?

Actions:

A. The owner can set the topic not available for reply, because they only use the topic for publication of products purpose, obviously can set yes too. If someone pay for this topic, obviously should let him block others members use the same topic as advertising purposes. Right point? 

B. The owner can set all replies by default hidden and need unhide action if want public some posts. This feature convert the topic at the same time as support purpose. Good point? 

IF the owner have the Moderation permission, because he bought it, he can use the same topic for same purpose all the time, and can buy pin service all the time, he don't need open a new topic. 

[Adriano Faria]

25 minutes ago, kmk said:

Hi, I interest in purchase this application, I have some ideas need to be confirmed. 

1. Can add place option? Example, by 10 days, first place of pin list 15.00, second place of pin list 10.00, third place of pin list 5.00 etc. 

2. When purchase for pin topic, I suppose buyer is who started the topic, is possible after purchase, give some moderation actions automatically to the owner of the topic?

Actions:

A. The owner can set the topic not available for reply, because they only use the topic for publication of products purpose, obviously can set yes too. If someone pay for this topic, obviously should let him block others members use the same topic as advertising purposes. Right point? 

B. The owner can set all replies by default hidden and need unhide action if want public some posts. This feature convert the topic at the same time as support purpose. Good point? 

IF the owner have the Moderation permission, because he bought it, he can use the same topic for same purpose all the time, and can buy pin service all the time, he don't need open a new topic. 

This isn’t for you, sorry. 

[Adriano Faria]

Compatible with IPS 4.4.

[ahc]

I'm very interested in this.

Is there a way to set a limit to how many topics can be pinned in each forum section automatically?  Let's say I only want 5 topics pinned at a time in Forum A and there's already 5 topics pinned.  If someone attempts to purchase a pin in Forum A, the options will be grayed out.  Is this doable?

[Adriano Faria]

No, no limit currently. 

[ahc]

On 2/6/2019 at 3:05 AM, Adriano Faria said:

No, no limit currently. 

Alright, I'll just leave that here as a possible feature request.

I'm still interested in buying this, but I'll hold off until 4.4 releases before I add new things to our site. 

[Maxtor]

hello i get an error at registration. i got this reply from technical support:

 

[Adriano Faria]

10 minutes ago, Maxtor said:

hello i get an error at registration. i got this reply from technical support:

 

Post the error log. Ticket from support won’t help that much. 😉

[Maxtor]

[Adriano Faria]

Ok. I’ll release a version tomorrow in the morning to fix it. Disable the app in the meantime. 

[Maxtor]

24 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Ok. I’ll release a version tomorrow in the morning to fix it. Disable the app in the meantime. 

ok i have disabled app but still i cant register new member. i think ill have to wait for the update i guess

[Adriano Faria]

@Maxtor, the error is because you still have columns from this app for IP.Board 3.4. The current version uses its own table to store data.

First, take a look in ACP -> System -> Applications -> Out of date applications. If this app shows there, click to remove/uninstall (not sure if this will drop these columns). Otherwise, you will have to access your database via PHPMyAdmin and drop the following columns:

- forums table:

• paytopintopics_onoff
• paytopintopics_grupos
• paytopintopics_amount_sete
• paytopintopics_amount_quinze
• paytopintopics_amount_trinta
• paytopintopics_amount_sessenta
• paytopintopics_amount_noventa

- members table:

• paytopintopics_cantpin
• paytopintopics_tids

- groups table

• g_paytopintopics_r_posts
• g_paytopintopics_r_reps
• g_paytopintopics_r_days

- topics tlable:

• paytopintopics_date
• paytopintopics_pinnedby

 

Let me know if you need help to drop them. You will have to send database credentials (URL, user and password) via PM.

Edited June 7, 2019 by Adriano Faria

[Maxtor]

9 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

@Maxtor, the error is because you still have columns from this app for IP.Board 3.4. The current version uses its own table to store data.

First, take a look in ACP -> System -> Applications -> Out of date applications. If this app shows there, click to remove/uninstall (not sure if this will drop these columns). Otherwise, you will have to access your database via PHPMyAdmin and drop the following columns:

- forums table:

• paytopintopics_onoff
• paytopintopics_grupos
• paytopintopics_amount_sete
• paytopintopics_amount_quinze
• paytopintopics_amount_trinta
• paytopintopics_amount_sessenta
• paytopintopics_amount_noventa

- members table:

• paytopintopics_cantpin
• paytopintopics_tids

- groups table

• g_paytopintopics_r_posts
• g_paytopintopics_r_reps
• g_paytopintopics_r_days

- topics tlable:

• paytopintopics_date
• paytopintopics_pinnedby

 

Let me know if you need help to drop them. You will have to send database credentials (URL, user and password) via PM.

@Adriano Faria if I drop these tables manually it will affect new "pay to pin" mod too or settings? because I have already customers running now.

Edited June 8, 2019 by Maxtor

[Adriano Faria]

1 hour ago, Maxtor said:

@Adriano Faria if I drop these tables manually it will affect new "pay to pin" mod too or settings? because I have already customers running now.

If you drop only these above, no. They belong to the IP.Board 3.4 version. Do it carefully because there are columns from new version in some of these tables. 

10 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

Let me know if you need help to drop them. You will have to send database credentials (URL, user and password) via PM.

 

[Maxtor]

ok done that. 

i now get this:

 

[Adriano Faria]

If you dropped the RIGHT columns from a 4 years old and unsupported resource and still got some error, then reply to your ticket. 

2S129/1 is related to Spam Service. 

 

[Bluto]

If you decide to add the limit on the number of pins per forum, I'll purchase this mod. 

In my particular situation, my members would dominate the first page of a forum with pins if there wasn't something to limit the amount of pins.

In addition, limiting the number of pins creates competition if the pin spots were all taken.

[Maxtor]

i get an error while choosing 70€ option

only on 70€ option get this error:

Edited September 4, 2019 by Maxtor

[Adriano Faria]

The error message says there is no value for this number of days or there is a invalid value. Edit the forum and check the values. 

If they’re right, send a PM with credentials to your ACP. I’ll take a look tomorrow in the morning. 

[Bluto]

@Adriano Faria I was thinking about getting this on your black Friday deal.  Any chance getting a setting to limit the number of pins per forum?  Right now, the way it is, certain forums on my site I'll have members pinning 20 topics and then people will complain that there is an entire page of pinned topics.  Just checking if this was something you'd want to add to this app or not?

[Adriano Faria]

On 2/6/2019 at 5:06 AM, ahc said:

I'm very interested in this.

Is there a way to set a limit to how many topics can be pinned in each forum section automatically?  Let's say I only want 5 topics pinned at a time in Forum A and there's already 5 topics pinned.  If someone attempts to purchase a pin in Forum A, the options will be grayed out.  Is this doable?

 

3 hours ago, Bluto said:

@Adriano Faria I was thinking about getting this on your black Friday deal.  Any chance getting a setting to limit the number of pins per forum?  Right now, the way it is, certain forums on my site I'll have members pinning 20 topics and then people will complain that there is an entire page of pinned topics.  Just checking if this was something you'd want to add to this app or not?

@ahc and @Bluto, I can add a global setting that will affect all forums, not a per forum option.

Let me know if that helps. 

[Bluto]

30 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

 

@ahc and @Bluto, I can add a global setting that will affect all forums, not a per forum option.

Let me know if that helps. 

That would work for me.  I can't see me having any more than 5 pins for any forum.  So, a global setting would work for me. 🙂

[Adriano Faria]

What's New in Version 1.0.2:

• Added new setting to control how many topics can be pinned in forums (default to NO LIMIT).