How can I have third party pay for premium?
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How can I have a willing third party pay for the premium renewal without granting Administrator privilidges?
Thank you!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Currently there is no way for another account to “gift” an Upgrade renewal to you
It is a common request, I have flagged this for the staff to add another check mark to the requests for this feature
they would need to be an Admin (only an Admin can access the store) and you would need to transfer ownership of the upgrade to them for them to renew it – then they would need to transfer the Upgrade back to you – yes not a friendly way
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Actually there is one way: have them buy you a prepaid credit card.
You used to be able to buy upgrades for other people directly, but alas I believe this was abused by hackers and discontinued.
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Thanks auxclass. Thanks raincoaster. Greatly appreciated. I am going to opt for paying individually and asking for reimbursement.
Thank you again for your input.
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@RC – did not think of the prepaid credit card –
I have suggested that Editors and above be for a blog be allowed to ‘gift” a renewal that did not change the owner of the upgrade – they could check a box that says “work like a renewal” – with more and more blogs having more than one person involved, seems to me that a way to share expenses for a blog among several people
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@raincoaster
@auxclass
FWIW I’m for the prepaid credit card.
I’m not for any convoluted process so that so-and so who does not own the blog can do this that or the other to purchase upgrades through the dashboard. That’s crackers.Reasoning: Many of the bloggers we deal with here everyday have issues following simple instructions never mind complicated ones. IMNSHO that these arrangements ought to be made by the bloggers themselves and not through the upgrade payment system at all.
Why?Because I can foresee a day when Admin, A who registered and who owns the blog and Admin B who pays for the upgrade have a falling out. So B contacts Staff to have domain mapping removed and every link in A’s blog is then a 404 (page not found) ie. broken link.
Don’t even going on what I think about the changing of usernames and changing URLs bit because I have seen people break all their links to indexed content in their blog (over a year’s worth) and have them contact me by email crying the blues because they did not know what they were doing.
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Any user at the Administrator level of a blog can purchase an upgrade. If you want someone other than the blog owner to purchase the Premium bundle, that individual will need a WordPress.com account and will then need to be added as an administrator to the blog. They can then request that the upgrade be transferred to another admin user, including the blog owner.
I would caution anyone planning to do this that anyone with admin level access to a blog has nearly full control over the content and visibility of the blog itself, so I would recommend only adding additional admins to a blog if they can be fully trusted with the blog itself.
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I should also note that if the upgrade owner disappears or is otherwise unavailable or unwilling to renew the upgrade, that is their call, not the blog owner’s.
If the upgrade is a domain and the upgrade owner doesn’t wish to renew it, the domain could be lost.
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And that’s why the prepaid credit card route is the best way. If you refill it (some are refillable, some are not) you can keep using it over and over. And there is zero security risk.
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