This article focuses on earning money with your phpFox social network community. Many people want to hear the Cha-Ching of fast cash coming from their website. The great news is that the phpFox social network script offers many different earning opportunities. We’ll focus on those so you can see various ways to earn money from your website.

Before we jump right into the built-in features that allow you to earn, you need to have a way to get the money. Great news! phpFox has a payment gateway feature and is integrated with Paypal. Later on, we’ll show you some apps that integrate other payment gateways in case you don’t have or don’t use Paypal. For now, if you want to enable Paypal, just see this tutorial for enabling the payment gateways.

Built-in Features for Monetization

This part of the article does require you to have a Pro license as these features are available in that version.

Ads

There are two ways to earn from ads. This ad tutorial shows each method.

• You can earn with user-submitted ads that show in a “sponsor” ad block. You would set up your ad placements and then the users would purchase an ad based on your pricing.
• You can earn with ads you place yourself. Perhaps selling ad space to local businesses. The tutorial shows how to manually create an ad.

Sponsor Items

You can earn when users sponsor their content such as photos and other things you set the user group settings for. Each user group has settings for sponsoring various things in the user group manager. You set the price for each thing and each user group. An example is you could set Photos to the Registered user group to allow sponsoring for $2 CPM and perhaps a Pro user group to pay $1 CPM.

Subscriptions

You can activate subscriptions and charge for access to various areas of the site. You can allow free and paid membership. Each user group can be set to allow or not allow access to various features, space allowed for uploads, size of images allowed, pricing for ads, etc. This allows you to customize the site and earn from recurring memberships, one time, etc.

Marketplace

You can sell items in your marketplace. This is a good way to earn if you have products or services. You can even set it up so that some members can sell things and some can’t. It is all set in the user group settings.

E-Gifts and Points

The E-Gift system and the Point system also allow you to earn. You can set prices for the E-Gifts and earn. The Points system allows you to let users purchase with points on the site, and it allows them to purchase points. They can even gift points to their friends if you allow it.

Third Party Products

If you need other ways to earn, this part of the article focuses on some third party products that might help you earn from your site.

Payment Options

In case you need more options or advanced gateways, here are a few apps offering that.

• Advanced Payment Gateway
• E-Money

Stores, Auctions, Marketplace Additions

Here are some different ways to sell or allow things to be sold.

• Advanced Marketplace
• Auction
• Amazon Store

Other Ways to Earn

• Courses – sell access to courses.
• Movies – with subscriptions enabled, you could allow paid users to share movies.
• Advanced Comments with Stickers – use with subscriptions to allow paid users to access special options.
• Desktop Notifications – use with subscriptions to allow paid users to access special options.

As you can see from the above suggestions, you can find many ways to earn money from your website if that is a goal. Built-in features and third party apps, combined with your imagination and efforts, can help you build a successful business venture, charity site, or even just earn a little side money.

Disclaimer: For any of the third party products listed here, please contact any of the developers that make them if you have questions. We’ve not received any compensation for them appearing here, it is just a general listing and not endorsements or official recommendations. It is a courtesy listing only and for informational purposes.

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Just so you know, our store also features a listing of all third-party developers, complete with ratings! This will help you find a developer if you need custom work done.

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Applications

There are a lot of different types of Applications (Apps) that you can get to spice up your site and offer your users a unique experience.

From Content Blocks to Social Media, it’s all there. Perhaps you want to engage your users with more advanced comment options – no problem! Add more payment gateways – it’s covered! From Movie apps to Instagram integrations, it’s all there too! To find the various categories covered, just go to the store and click the Applications drop-down menu at the top left of the app’s listings.

Here’s one example of a cool app to add to your site, Movie System:

Needing an App and not finding it? Post your ideas in the community forum as third party developers are actively seeking ideas.

Not sure how to get the Apps? Our tutorial will walk you through purchasing and installing Apps – a one-click easy way to get them for your site.

Themes

Theme developers have been busy getting their awesome creations in the store as well.  Just take a look at some of the beautifully creative designs waiting to make your site sizzle! From Twitter© and Facebook© style themes to Music and Food-focused, there’s bound to be a theme to fit right in with your site focus. Prefer a fixed header? No problem as that’s a focus for one developer’s themes.

Here’s one of the top selling themes, Convo:

Not finding a theme you need? Ask any of the developers that already have themes in for custom work or give them your ideas for themes for the store. We’re sure they’ll be happy to have your feedback.

Languages

In addition to Apps and Themes, you might want to go international and get some Language packs . Language packs can help give your users a better experience if you have users from various areas or if your site is located in an area that speaks a language other than the default English language that comes with the script. It’s always a great idea to offer localization to your users. The language pack developers work very hard to translate the thousands of phrases that come in the phpFox script. Each pack, from Spanish to German, Arabic, French, etc all offer humanly translated phrases. This can be a big advantage over the online translators as those can have errors with local terminology.

Here’s one of the top selling language packs, French !

Are we missing your language pack? You can earn money by translating the phrases yourself and offering it for sale in the market, if you desire to do that. If not, feel free to post your language pack request in the Feature Requests area listed above.

Customizations

Perhaps your needs are not met with the various store offerings. You may need some special custom work done so that you can realize your website vision and make it unique to suit your Niche. No problem! Our Developer listing offers a listing of all of the third-party developers that have current store listings. Many of the developers on the list also do custom work. You can see their ratings on their profiles. This should help you discover just the right developer for your project!

Store Reviews

To wrap up this inFocus, we want to remind all of you to post your reviews. Free apps, paid apps, themes, and languages all need reviews. For anything you use, please review it. This helps the third party developers know what you like, what you don’t like, what they are doing well and how they need to improve. Please also rate each developer’s profile if you have used their apps/themes/languages/customizations/support as each one of them relies on good ratings in order to earn. If you like a particular developer’s products and service, the best way to get them to make more, and to keep them around, is to provide your feedback.

Disclaimer: For any of the products listed here, please contact any of the developers that make them if you have questions. We’ve not received any compensation for the following, it is just a general listing and not endorsements or official recommendations. It is a courtesy listing only and for informational purposes.

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Monetizing with the phpFox Marketplace

There are ways to monetize with the marketplace without you even having to sell any products in it. You could set up subscriptions and only allow those that pay a subscription fee to be able to sell things. This helps you earn and helps your users earn too. With subscriptions, you can make different user groups with different subscription prices as well.

Here are some tutorials for user groups and subscriptions so you can learn how to manage them.

• Creating a User Group
• Changing User Group Settings
• Creating Subscription Packages

Our video tutorial will walk you though setting some of the marketplace settings for the user groups. You’ll see how to make, edit, and translate categories so your Marketplace will be unique for your site and site niche.

Once you have your Marketplace set up and the user groups as you want them, you might want to add some extra features. Our next section deals with useful Apps and Themes you might want.

Adding Features for Your Marketplace

This is a brief list of a few things we see in the phpFox store. You would want to go search for things as well since we can’t include everything you might like to have. This should help get you started to see what other options you have for features. For any of these listed here, please contact any of the developers that make them if you have questions. We’ve not received any compensation for the following, it is just a general listing and not endorsements or official recommendations. It is a courtesy listing only and for informational purposes.

Apps:

• Accept more payment types with Advanced Payment Gateway . If Paypal isn’t your thing, or maybe doesn’t work in your area, the Advanced Payment Gateway allows you to offer a wide variety of payment methods.
• Advanced Marketplace app gives you more features for your Marketplace with ratings, reviews and more.
• Maybe make the next E-Bay© competitor with Auctions!
• Marketplace block to show off the listings. This helps to get folks interested in the listings.
• Let your users add listings easier with a link right on the member home page using Uplinks.
• Desktop Notifications might be useful for those that need to keep updated quickly for notices.
• Perhaps spice up the profile About section if you want to show more info for buyers/sellers. You’ll need to ask that developer if it shows listings but it looks like it has some good features.

In addition to Apps, you might want to go international and get some language packs!

Themes are always a great way to spice up a site too and there are several you might find interesting!

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