Hi Gypsy,
There's a really great Universal Currency Converter located
HERE
if you're interested. It comes out to about $50 US to get into their forums.
Look at what ScubaGuy says
in this post
. It only makes sense to do what he and king.lui are working on...
Think of it this way. All the fee-based membership components are tryint to intercept or interrupt either the login process or the registration process. This simply isn't required. Actually it's possibly the worst way to go about charging for memberships.
The JACL component works great and doesn't interfere with CB at all. If you can sell a subscription product and, after successful payment is confirmed, change only the JACL permissions level (group) -- you've accomplished your goal. The quality of the product or subscription payment routine is the only question, and one which I'm about to test.
Some people want to charge once, i.e. no subscription. Others want to charge a subscription that automatically rebills. I'm hoping that what king.lui and ScubaGuy are doing will fit the bill and that the payment solution is flexible enough to satisfy everybody.
If that doesn't work, I'm waiting for Beat. He's got his finger on the pulse of CB (obviously) so his seems like the next best idea.