Member subscriptions
Member subscriptions are how your community pays for itself: members subscribe to a plan you design, get the perks you attach, and the money goes to your own payment account. Patreon energy, but native to your board and without the middleman's cut.
yourboard.forumspark.net/admin/member-subscriptions
Settings, plans, dashboard and coupons under Monetization.
Setting it up
Connect your own Stripe or PayPal under Monetization, then Payment Providers. Subscribers pay you directly.
Create your plans: price, billing period, and what subscribing grants, typically membership of a subscriber group that carries the perks.
Shape the perks through that group: access to a subscriber lounge, a shiny username style, bigger limits. Everything the permission system can grant, a subscription can sell.
Publish your pricing page and let the board handle the rest: joining the group on payment, the grace period and reminder emails when a payment fails, removal when a subscription truly lapses.
Running it
The dashboard shows your subscriber base and revenue at a glance, and coupons give you discounts for launches and win-backs. The machinery, renewals, failed payment dunning, access changes, runs itself.
Basic subscriptions come with Launch; the full toolkit (coupons and the complete monetization suite) comes with Earn and up. And the golden rule of paid perks: sell comfort and shine, never sell moderation outcomes or basic participation.