Patreon integration: promote, sell, gift account upgrades

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Patreon is a popular donation platform which allows to:

1. Sell account upgrades to your members as well as to Patreon members.
2. Let members gift account upgrades.
3. Let members follow your site on Patreon.
4. Promote account upgrades and special offers to users that follow you.
5. Communicate with your paid members.
6. Give you a good overview of who is currently paying and who has previously bought account upgrades.
7. Sell content.

Patreon offers a good set of payment options to millions of users.

Integration with Patreon would offer really nice benefits. The functionality I'd like to see:

1. Let users follow us on Patreon. (add Patreon to the icons in the footer and in user profile)
2. Sell account upgrades on Patreon and automatically upgrade / downgrade members on XF.
3. Publish and sell exclusive content to Patreon.
4. Login with Patreon. Patreon uses Oauth login, which is also supported by XF.

Discourse forum software has Patreon integration. It would be nice to see it for XF as well.

https://www.patreon.com/developers

https://www.patreon.com/portal/start/oauth-explained

 

[Digital Doctor]

Let members follow your site on Patreon.

How would this work ?

 

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How would this work ?

Just like you have Follow us on Facebook' in your footer, you would have a 'Join us on Patreon'. When the user clicks it, they go to your sites creator profile and join it. The user can opt to join for free or to purchase an account upgrade. If the user joins for free, then you will be able to promote account upgrades, coupons, special offers, sell content to the user and you will also be able to send messages to the user trough Patreon chat. You can also send bulk messages and offers to your audience.