Posted by jameshclark on January 19, 2010 at 1:25pm
I'm looking at a couple of different pay models for our online news venture. The most intriguing is metered access where each user is allowed access to a certain number of articles before they have to subscribe.
I'm leaning toward using Ubercart but was wondering if there was an easy way to set this up. Perhaps there's a module that tracks how many times specific CCK content types are viewed by each user before kicking it over to the subscription page.
Tall order, I know but many thanks in advance for your insight.
Categories: subscription, Subscription Management, development, howto, support
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I did a little more digging
I did a little more digging and hashing through the idea. I guess in simplest form I would need to limit the number of nodes a user/role can view before being redirected to a "Subscribe" page.
E.g. The registered user role can only view 10 nodes of any content type before being asked to become a subscriber thereby allowing access to the entire site.
I've found several modules to limit node creation based on a user role but none that limit number of nodes accessed.
Any ideas?
Journalism Online
Journalism Online is planning to support the "soft paywall" model and is looking at specific Drupal support.
See my blog posting for details on the real technical problem: cookies.
http://www.yelvington.com/content/cookie-monster-versus-soft-paywalls
Good post. Plays into my
Good post. Plays into my repeated statements at our organization that anonymous "web stats" will always be inaccurate.
I had indeed taken cookies into account. We've been requiring registration (no anonymous access) for a couple of years now with no real consequence so I don't a reason to discontinue that. This, of course, sidesteps the cookie problem.
In looking at Ubercart further I've found you can limit the period of time a role is allowed full access before being asked to pay and then automatically kicked into another role.