Paid Listings or Memberships for this use case? πŸ™πŸ»

  • Posted 1 month ago

Hello, could you advise me on the following website use case? I’m struggling to work out whether paid listings or memberships is the correct way to achieve the scenario.

I have 4 different post types:
– Trade
– Professional Service
– Supplier
– Projects

I also have 5 different types of users for the website:
– Standard user – no account needed, they will just browse the front end of the site
– Homeowner user – can create an account for free and can create/publish a set number of projects. They can message other paying users of the site.
– Trade user – should pay $50 per month and should be able to create and publish 1 ‘Trade’ (post type). They can view projects and can message homeowners.
– Professional Service user – should pay $50 per month and should be able to create and publish 1 ‘Professional Service’ (post type). They can view projects and can message homeowners.
– Supplier user – should pay $50 per month and should be able to create and publish 1 ‘Supplier’ (post type). The supplier user should also have the option of creating more supplier post types, but at a different cost per post ($10pm).

I want all paying users to have a 30 day free trial to start with.

From what I can tell, this use case seems to be a mix of features of paid listings and paid memberships.

Previously, I think this could be achieved with memberships, where we have a monthly membership fee, with the option of setting additional prices for creating post type listings.

Can you help?