XF 2.3 User upgrades with no payment profile?

peteGSX

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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