Monetize
Figuring out how to create revenue from your forum can be a challenge. We’ve combined some of the tools you need to simplify monetizing your forum. Display your user upgrades at the right time, in the right place, to the right users in an appealing way. Set up a paywall to require membership before accessing your forum. Display sponsors for specific nodes. Replace words with different words or a link and change links posted in your forum to your affiliate links. Plus set schedules for sending automated alerts, emails, and messages. Whichever method you choose to generate revenue or a combination of methods, Monetize will help.

Affiliate Links and Keywords Features

• Add affiliate data to links posted in your forum so you can earn commission for your affiliate links
• Replace words or phrases with a link to a URL or text
• Choose the maximum number of total keyword replacements to make per page
• Choose the maximum number of keyword replacements to make per word per page
• Determine who will use the affiliate link when it is clicked or who will see the replaced content with user criteria

Sponsors Features

• Add a sponsor to specific nodes
• List sponsors in a sponsors directory
• Add the sponsor’s URL and an image to the node
• Determine the width and height of the image

User Upgrade Features

• Set up a paywall with the option to require users to purchase an upgrade as a part of the registration process
• Create multiple upgrade pages so you can display different upgrades to different users and on different dates with user criteria and page criteria
• Display individual features next to each user upgrade so users can understand what is included in each upgrade
• Create attractively designed upgrade pages to encourage users to purchase
• Style your user upgrades with colors, shapes, and icons
• Suggest upgrades to users instead of showing no permission errors, including the ability to exclude specific permission failures or content types
• Adds new user criteria for number of active upgrades and expiring upgrades
• Create a free user upgrade option
• Allow guests to view user upgrades
• Allow users to override above the cost set in the user upgrade when they are purchasing the upgrade

Communication Features

• Create automated alerts, messages, and emails
• Schedule sending automated communication, from daily to monthly
• Choose who will receive the automated communication by setting user upgrade criteria and/or user criteria
• Set limits to how many alerts, messages, and emails a user can receive in a given period
• Default communications include sending users an alert to thank them for purchasing an upgrade, a message to let a user know that their upgrade is about to expire, and an email to let them know that their upgrade has just expired