Have a points shop?

[The Cat Lady]

Do you have a points shop of sorts on your forum? If you do, what do you have to offer? What would you offer if you have one?

 

[Cory]

I have a points shop, but it has barely gotten any use in all the years it has been available. I made the shop more noticeable recently by making it a redirect forum instead of a small link in the header menu. Here are some of the items I have to offer:

• Larger Avatar Dimensions
• Featured Advertisements
• Featured Resource Topic
• Change Username
• Colored Username
• Add a Hidden Smilie

Along with those, being a resource board, I have some coding-related items available.

 

[Page]

same here, but nothing been setup for a very long time since it crashed and lost it all

 

[Yoda]

For those of you with shops set up - is your virtual currency quite easy to earn or is your shop set up that members need to pay actual currency for items?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

When I've done points/credits, I'd have little buys here and there but I never really used the default items of the shops.

Now this was way back when. I'm sure those features have evolved since then.

 

[Cedric]

In my experience, shop items are hardly bought. A credit system is only valuable when you can offer services like FP, Administrata, …

 

[Ravenfreak]

I had a points shop on only one of my forums. It was a gaming forum, and I honestly don't know what I had planned for it but the forum didn't really go anywhere. I didn't promote it much and I was still somewhat of a new admin at the time so I didn't really know what I was doing lol.

 

[Baw$e]

I will be adding one. My forum does have a points system. I just been busy with a lot of other aspects of my site.

 

[Page]

For those of you with shops set up - is your virtual currency quite easy to earn or is your shop set up that members need to pay actual currency for items?

Post to earn currency 😉 no buying or selling or faking it

 

[BeautifulAngel]

We do not currently have a points shop however it is something worth talking about as we are about to relaunch the forum in December. I think it could be a great idea to help keep the members encouraged and something to look forward to receiving. Plus, I love to reward the members who are posting and helping us create the community we strive to have.

 

[Cory]

In my experience, shop items are hardly bought.

This is my problem, which I don't entirely understand. I don't have the most traffic on board, but I have a decent amount where our advertising options in the shop could help administrators gain more traffic. However, the In-Forum Advertising forum was added semi-recently, and before that, I had premium advertising options available that I was offering for way too many points. I reduced the In-Forum Advertising featured advertisements significantly compared to the premium advertisements I used to have, so perhaps people will notice and use them eventually.

It was to the point where I considered retiring the shop, but most of the users were against that, so I suppose they found it useful after all. It's getting people to use it that's the problem.

 

[Jason76]

Not at the moment. PhpBB seems to not have an extension, so you'd have to pay a developer. I wonder how much that would be?

 

[Ashley S]

Not at the moment. PhpBB seems to not have an extension, so you'd have to pay a developer. I wonder how much that would be?

Possibly a lot of money, a lot of hours going into making the add-on.
Is phpBB still lacking in mods, styles just like MyBB?