Paysite CMS?
 

Anyone have any suggestions for a decent (affordable) paysite CMS? By affordable I mean, the awesome software put out by toomuch (carma) while being fucking awesome, and I love it, it's slightly outta my price range atm.

Anyone know any cheaper alternatives, that can do some of the same basic features? I.e. template driven members area, latest update module, next week's update module - blah blah

thanks in advance! and refcodes (if they exist for this sorta thing:P) are welcome :thumbsup


EDIT: if possible, owning it outright so I don't need to buy it again for each paysite would be nice :) thank you!

Check out Apex. You can get it now for 40% off.

http://www.calidi.com

I've been using it myself and am extremely impressed so far.

Hit me up on icq (#18466283), I will show you our brand new Apex CMS!
Note that we provide a fully working solution (CMS + Templates integration + Live training), so your paysite will be up in no time :upsidedow

http://www.calidi.com

40% off until the 10 of August :thumbsup

Really, if you can't afford carma for $150/month, you are in the wrong business.

I have no suggestions if you can't afford CARMA. Is "HotMeTaL Pro" still for sale?

There's a few other options as far as CMS goes... paying a rent for a CMS sort of sucks really, I'd rather just buy it outright but 3,500 is a bit steep if you have no members yet... so I see where he's coming from.

Apex looks wonderful, I made a thread a while back, might help: here

Other options are ElevatedX and there's another one that's also grey/orange and I believe has a fish in the logo I think, heh...

That would be MAS, by Mansion. I use it with a few sponsors, and it can hold it's own.

Even if their web page is very 1998.

use modern technology
 

anyone using smarty
doesn't know how to build a cms lol

a cms these days
should auto convert videos

check out http://www.porncms.com/ :thumbsup

Hey hey now ----- with my outstanding skill set, I STILL use HotMeTal Pro at times :1orglaugh

No suggestions!!

I just ordered ElevatedX since this month they waive the setup fees. Great group of people there.

You can always try little O and SiteDepth.

Smarty is a standard: ThePaysiteCMS, Carma, Apex (+ most major mainstream cms are compatible with smarty...)
That being said, maybe you should think of using it because your demo site is slow as hell :1orglaugh

a product/development company these days
should not have a site looking so 1998...


Joke aside, even if i don't think doing all the transcoding/conversions server-side is a very good idea, our cms is able to do it too.

Let's end with a friendly advice, you should lower your prices... your are more expensive than all other cms (renting) solutions on the market :helpme

Sitedepth is awesome

So far from this thread, the good ones look like:
http://www.elevatedx.com/
http://www.calidi.com
http://www.toomuchmedia.com/products/carma/
http://www.mansionproductions.com/mas/