XF 2.3 User upgrades with no payment profile?

[peteGSX]

Our forum runs on donations, and I have a PayPal Me link setup in a sidebar widget for our members to use to donate.

We don't have a business PayPal account to upgrade to, so I can't enable the PayPal payment profile to setup the user upgrades that way, and all I really want to do is take advantage of the upgrade to automatically expire their group membership after a year (I have created a separate Supporters user group). Given our forum is pretty quiet, manually upgrading a user is perfectly ok.

Is there any way to take advantage of the built in user upgrade process without having a payment profile setup? I can't even edit the existing ones to suit without providing a payment profile.

 

[peteGSX]

Looks like no one has any input in this one. I might see if I can figure out how to do it when I get some time.

 

[Old Nick]

Did you tried to create a Stripe account?

 

[peteGSX]

Not at all, using an actual payment provider doesn't really work for what we need. Setting up a Stripe account requires a bunch of info that just isn't really relevant for this forum, we're a bunch of motorcycle enthusiasts and there's no business etc. associated with it.

 

[Old Nick]

PayPal (Legacy) does not work with your current PP account?
Anyway it's just to unlock the ugrade system right?

 

[peteGSX]

Ah I didn't even look at the legacy one! I noted it was deprecated so didn't even try it, but that might be worth a shot.

And yep, this is simply so I can do manual upgrades when people donate, and use the timer to remove the upgrade after a year to encourage them to donate again.

 

[Old Nick]

The risk, as it is deprecated, is that it could be removed in a future XF update...

 

[peteGSX]

Yeah definitely, might get us being able to use the upgrades for now at least, and if I can convince the guy looking after the PayPal account to upgrade to a business plan then we can use that instead and be future proof.