Whenever I see people talking about hiring developers to build membership sites, my eyes glaze over because this can be a treacherous road for the non-technical types.
Here's a quick synopsis to save yourself some heartache and money.
Not sure what you're using for your email service provider, but if you're using ActiveCampaign, this can get a boatload easier.
You can use Wordpress with the ActiveMember 360 plugin that integrates with ActiveCampaign. That will give you a full membership site in Wordpress which is a quick and easy solution.
You can get something like ThriveCart to handle payments and subscriptions - it's designed to integrate fully with ActiveCampaign and uses Stripe, Paypal and Authorize.net for card processing (it also lets people use Apple Pay).
If you want to do a forum like this one, you can integrate that with Xenforo, but it's not entirely clean - I know someone who does this kind of thing and can refer you if necessary.
You should be able to get this up and running fairly painlessly and if you want to fully outsource the setup, you can do that as well.
Just be careful that people don't try and soak you for like $5000 or something to setup a membership site.
Good luck.
Here's a quick synopsis to save yourself some heartache and money.
Not sure what you're using for your email service provider, but if you're using ActiveCampaign, this can get a boatload easier.
You can use Wordpress with the ActiveMember 360 plugin that integrates with ActiveCampaign. That will give you a full membership site in Wordpress which is a quick and easy solution.
You can get something like ThriveCart to handle payments and subscriptions - it's designed to integrate fully with ActiveCampaign and uses Stripe, Paypal and Authorize.net for card processing (it also lets people use Apple Pay).
If you want to do a forum like this one, you can integrate that with Xenforo, but it's not entirely clean - I know someone who does this kind of thing and can refer you if necessary.
You should be able to get this up and running fairly painlessly and if you want to fully outsource the setup, you can do that as well.
Just be careful that people don't try and soak you for like $5000 or something to setup a membership site.
Good luck.