The title pretty much sums up this feature request nicely!
Instead of paying for a recurring subscription, people should be able to pay to access an individual article(s).
A list of individual articles that have been purchased could be listed in the members’ account.
This could even potentially be used as a simplified shop, allowing people to pay for downloads or other digital products!
Other ‘ideas’ have been suggested that are similar to this one but with more specific requirements. I have tried simplifying the general idea to give wider user case scenarios and simplify the technical requirements!
I hope this is integrated within the portal and not as a separate field. Users should have the opportunity to buy single articles, read top three articles, or subscribe to one of the paid tiers…something along those lines.
We actually built this feature for Ghost creators and have many folks using it successfully! Our integration, Acta, allows any creators to unlock individual content sales, set at the price you want. Feel free to check out our demo page for the full experience, or some other live examples too:
This would be especially helpful for me. You could think of it as pay-as-you-go, basically just an addition to the subscription options.
The use case:
I write long-form articles explaining complex topics. The topics covered are hard to find much good information on, so users are willing to pay. BUT…
If my output is ~1 article per month, then I think the consumer would be much happier with this option.