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Cost of adding a subscription to website already designed

  • 18-08-2009 11:41AM
    #1
    Truss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Hello,

    Curious to know if anyone could give me a ball park figure on the cost a web design company would charge for adding a user login and paid subscription (setup with paypal) to an already existing website?

    I have designed and created the site but need to add a paid subscription to it - I know I could do Joomla etc. and use a plugin already created but i can't design Joomla sites.

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Adding the subscription and login itself is a doddle....

    HOWEVER what does the subscription give you access to ? Existing pages / content or new content ?

    What way is the current site set up (e.g. is there a controller/header file that you could check a session variable / login and redirect accordingly) ?

    How big is the existing site, and do existing pages need to be subscription-only ? Or are there lots of new pages to be added ?

    PLUS what happens if they forget their password ?

    PLUS what happens when the subscription expires ?

    Based on the above questions alone, you could be talking about anything from €400 to a couple of thousand, so there's no "ball park" without having an idea of the spec.


  • #3
    Truss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Truss


    Single payment access to the entire website for one year, a standard home/about us/terms etc. would be accessible to the public, but to gain access to the other pages would require subscription. Within the subscriber pages are pdf e-book downloads.

    Basically one payment access to everything, any new content added gets added without any extra charge.


    "What way is the current site set up (e.g. is there a controller/header file that you could check a session variable / login and redirect accordingly)" - not a notion what you mean...:o

    "PLUS what happens if they forget their password ?" - that would need an email option to email their password/change of password to them.

    "PLUS what happens when the subscription expires?" - ideally an email would be sent out informing them their account will expire in say 4 weeks, then in 1 week, then in 24 hours sort of thing - if it wasn't difficult or expensive to add to the site an optino for auto renewal then great, otherwise it would just have to be done manually.


  • #4
    randombar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭randombar


    You should check out paypal, I've that set up for one of my sites: www.medrevision.org


  • #5
    TheWaterboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 379 ✭✭TheWaterboy


    Would be handy enough to implement. Have one authentication file control what pages a user can or cannot view - if they are a paid up logined user they see everything. If not they only see the basic site.

    Payments probably best done through Paypal - Prob cheapest and easiest to implement.

    PM me if you want someone to implement this or need more advice. Isnt a huge job (providing the website is correctly designed in the first place)


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