Baratta Design

How do you get a paid subscription component for Joomla? There are a few solutions coming for Joomla and AEC Paid Subscription Component is leading the small group of contenders. If you have come to the conclusion that there really isn't a paid subscriber solution for Joomla you would have been right if you were looking months ago. As of mid July 2007 there is a subscription component that will allow you to have paid subscribers.

AEC does work and will show subscriptions first and then the user can register. Once the registration  process is completed your subscriber is forwared to Pay Pal or the processor you have applied. Baratta Design has installed several AEC components at various sites.  It can be a challenge at times but in the end it was only my mistakes that caused my headache!

If your an average site administrator looking for a paid subscription component solution you currently do not have many choices. Most of us know there are paid subscription component's that do work, because we have used them and paid for products and services at a Joomla powered website. Most were custom made subscription components and not available to us end users.

The makers of Community Builder and the code guy 'Beat' have been working on one but,  like so many Joomla component makers they are very busy making opensource components for us. Although CB has been testing the paid subscription component at their site for a year now they have still not released anything for the paying subscribers to test or use.

The last 'guess' at the release date from CB was months ago in March 2007 and there have been a few updates at CB from Beat, who is a very busy guy. Many excited members have replied to the blog and Beat has replied to them for several month after his last 'guess date'. We hope he is doing well and still able to work on this subscription component.

Don't forget the old fashion way, just put a Pay Pal button on your site, you can use a button in a module or content item. The person links off to Pay Pal and pays for their subscription. Sure its a bit on the manual side but, for most of us it will be good enough. If a customer wants to pay for my services I'll do it manually!  No problem! and thank you very much!

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