Gift options

[mototom]

I understand that there is a way, albeit clunky, to gift subscriptions and content by purchasing while logged out. It sounds like an email will come with instructions for activating a new account.

Does this also work for renewing as a gift? How would we add time to someone else's subscription as a gift? I'm considering paying for my party as apprentice subs and upgrading to Patron, but I really don't want to start a complicated arrangement where I have to reimburse them every 4 months once their account is active.

 

[BJ]

We currently don't offer plans for sponsoring people's memberships, but we are discussing implementing such features in the future.

 

[mototom]

That's great news.

Eventually it would be nice to offer something above Patron tier that allows free users to share my content, but I'd be happy with a very simple workaround that just lets us gift time or Hero Lab dollars to someone. Something as simple (and I realize in tech terms that simple almost always really means "simple") as a gift card system so I could send someone credit to renew their subscription would be enough.

 

[aellongm]

A gift card system using discount codes would indeed be a nice solution. Not just for membership either. being able to buy my players content would be nice too

 

[dacoobob]

if you want to buy your players stuff in the meantime, there's always Venmo, Paypal, and of course cash...

 

[mototom]

Of course. As I said originally, I really don’t want to have to regularly reimburse a half dozen people, each of whom has their preferred method for exchanging cash. I might, but it’s more likely that we just won’t use Hero Lab.

 

[dacoobob]

you can also just create accounts for the players yourself, and hand out the usernames & passwords to them.