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Groups of Supporters

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I have a situation that is probably not different from edublogs: My supporters could be individuals/students, or they could be a group with a leader/teacher/administrator that is responsible for a single larger monthly payment.

For example:

$10/mo for an individual supporter

$100/mo for a group of up to 25 supporters

Right now, I can handle the billing, I’m just not sure how to manage the users. Near as I can tell, there is no way to associate the users such that I could renew their supporter functions as a group when their billing period is renewed. Could the "Blog and User Creator" plugin be useful in this scenario? If so, does it integrate with the functionality of the Supporter plugin?

All advice on how to deal with such groups is appreciated!

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 1:11:48
  • christofire
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    If I understand "Bulk Supporters" correctly, it puts a considerable administrative burden on the individual who is paying. So much so, in fact, that anything less than annual payments is impractical.

    In my case, while the group is perpetual, the 100+ bloggers (each with their own blog) that they are paying for will come and go with a 40% turnover rate during a given year.

    What I’d like is a way to accomplish what I think is being done with edu-blogs Campus, but on a much smaller scale and without creating a separate blog network to maintain. A group parent will pay a monthly flat fee to have the potential to engage <200 child bloggers with supporter privileges and those users can pretty much come and go at will. No need to customize the blogging platform beyond the segmentation.

    For me, it is a simple matter of taking a larger discounted payment from the group parent, rather than many smaller payments from the individual child bloggers. The issue then becomes how I can activate/deactivate the *group* supporter privileges depending on the account payment status.

    Maybe I’m approaching this the wrong way. Is there a plugin or something that allows a single WPMu install to act as though there are several–sort of a virtual hosting account? That would accomplish what want to do as well.

    Sorry for rambling. It turned out to be a bigger question than I originally thought.