Allowing a user to ask someone else to pay

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Hi all,

I’m using Wix Studio Editor.

I sell pricing plans that give access to members only pages.

I would like to give one user the ability to buy access for another user (e.g. a parent buying access for a child. or a friend for another friend).

Let’s call the person paying, the Buyer and the person receiving the access the Recipient.

I had thought of using gift cards, but these do not work with pricing plans.

Then I thought of creating a form for the recipient to complete (who are you? who’s buying you access? what’s their email?). That could then send a payment link to the buyer. However, when the Buyer purchased they would be buying it via their own account.

I wondered if as a work around I could create a Wix Store, then a digital product, then associate that product with a contact label and use that to allow access to the pages. Then I could possibly use gift cards? That does all seem a bit long winded though.

Does anyone have an idea of how to achieve this or something similar?

Basically the option for a user to ask someone else to pay!

Nathan

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Wix doesn’t currently support purchasing pricing plans for another user natively, all purchases are tied to the logged-in member (the Buyer).

It may be possible to use code (I havnt tested this flow yet)

  • Create a Digital Product in Wix Stores - like " 3 months Access Token" or what ever.
  • Create a Form for the Buyer with all the details of the person they want to pay for. You would need Name, email at a minimum.
  • Set Up a Custom Confirmation & Trigger
    On payment confirmation of the digital product you create a new contact for the recipient in the backend, then send an email to the recipient with access instructions, possibly create a temp password for them
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That’s a really interesting idea thanks Dan.

What I’m trying at the moment is the Gift Card route. Then a digital product exactly as you have described. The only piece I’m stuck on is the automation. When the recipient buys the digital product, I need Wix to give them access to the membership pages, meaning they need a member role (unless there’s another way).

I have not yet found a way in the automation suite to apply that action.

I can Trigger the purchase easily enough, but I then need them to get access to the pages.

Don’t suppose you have a thought on that?

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Hey Nathan,

As Dan mentioned, no matter whichever flow you choose to go with, you will need to use custom code in some or the other steps for the entire thing to be automated.

And if you are using code, then there’s a much more simpler and easier flow that will help you accomplish exactly what you’re looking for, that is:

Here’s how this flow would work:

  1. Buyer enters recipient’s email.
  2. The code checks if the recipient is an existing site member, and fetches their details.
  3. The buyer chooses the plan that they would like to buy for the recipient and makes the payment.
  4. A subscription for the recipient is generated based on the plan that the buyer selected for them, and is directly linked to the recipient’s account, using which they can now access the member’s only pages and other benefits that come along with the plan that has been bought, for the specified duration.

This is a much more streamlined flow and you can also have email notifications, confirmation checks, and renewal notifications set up both for the buyers and recipients, as required. This would be much easier for your site users to understand and navigate - as compared to digital products, gift cards, etc.

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