Forums Feature Requests Thread

[New Feature] Paid community access and subscription gating

Patrick Bass · May 24 · 26 · 1 Locked

[Deployed to Production]

Patrick Bass 🚀 OP May 24, 2026 7:52pm

Type: New Feature

Priority: P1

What: Gate individual forums or categories behind a paid subscription (monthly/annual). Integrate with existing tenant Stripe setup. Members pay to access premium content spaces.

Who benefits: Creators (revenue), members (exclusive content). This is the core business model for Skool, Circle, and Mighty Networks.

Why: Without this, Mobieus cannot compete for creators whose business model is "paid community." Course sales cover education but not community monetization.

Complexity: Extra Large

Patrick Bass
@mobieus

Patrick Bass 🚀 May 26, 2026 6:59pm

Resolved. This shipped as part of the paid access forums feature. Individual forums can now be gated behind a paid subscription (monthly, yearly, or one-time). Configuration is in both the create-forum form ("Paid access" section) and the forum settings page.

Key points: uses the tenant's own Stripe keys (zero platform skim), non-admin creators require tenant admin approval, subscribers tracked in forum_subscriptions, access enforced via Forum::canView/canPost, landing page shows price + subscribe CTA, lock icon on paid forums in the directory. See the related thread "Feature: Paid access forums (Stripe)" for full technical details.

Patrick Bass
@mobieus

[New Feature] Paid community access and subscription gating

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