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Sell view only access to a blog post using F Forms?

Can I use Fluent Forms to restrict viewing of a blog post to someone who has paid to view it?

Can I offer that access on a subscription basis?

I don’t want to offer the access to the blog post as a download—just viewing of it.

Thank you!

Charlotte

Sure - with the addition of something to control access. Off the top of my head this would be easy to create with WPFusion + your CRM. Following this logic - do you already have a plugin on this site that’s handling content/membership access?

Kaneisha G.

Charlotte D Sure Members! But in the case of also needing to use a membership plugin, I would just use Surecart + SureMembers to achieve this.

Charlotte

Kaneisha G. That combo should work (with the caveat that I use neither, but conceptually). To me, the functionality needed is payment (subs preferred per post) + conditional content access control. Then I look at what am I already using on the site with those abilities - or do I need/want to bring in specialized solutions.

So if you already have Surecart on this site + Suremembers, then you've got it. If Surecart is not already there, then FluentForms -> Flowmattic -> Suremembers is an option (cause I think you also have Flowmattic and I don't think FF+Suremembers talk directly).

Probably the content restrictions & access can also be done via code in Flowmattic, but we're way above my abilities now.

Charlotte

I haven't had a chance to watch your community walkthrough yet (thanks for sharing it!) so apologies if this question is answered there: is your FluentCRM install on a different website or the same one as the blog posts you want to sell access to?

If it's on 2 separate sites (eg. maybe SureCart/ SureMembers/ FluentCommunity/ FluentCRM all on one site - then blogs on another site), then the WP Fusion free version is all you need to bridge the gap between the sites.

Obvs if it's all on the same website your tech stack has it covered.

Kaneisha G.

Charlotte D all on the same site! I think my husband has built a plugin that uses Surecart’s Content Builder to make each essay a product and that reveals the essay after it’s been paid for.

Basically, I want to avoid creating 100+ SureMembers access groups or 100+ FCRM tags.

Charlotte

Kaneisha G. Awesome sauce!