"I can't help but wonder.....why has no one from Ning joined this conversation and offered some help/insight as to where they stand concerning this matter?"

"Hi John Thanks for your reply and the information to your link. I will have our IT person take a look and we will take it into consideration. I must say however, that this is very frustrating and the fact that Ning is not chimming in here is…"

"Hi Charles, I just wanted to follow up with you regarding ESM. I saw in your post that you weren't able to get it to work and that you weren't able to get support.  I remember speaking with you back in August regarding ESM and said…"

"Just a quick note regarding recurring payments.  We do have a solution. Someone posted a link to our website earlier and then Eric made a comment in a later post so I hope my comment is received well. We created Enterprise Subscription…"

"As I mentioned before we love the ease of use with Ning but were astounded to find that no recurring option was included in the paid access module. Not so bad if it was just a free option on Ning for everyone but we are required to pay…"

"They recommended I try it. I found it completely unworkable and there was no support for it from the provider -- it seemed to me like he was getting out of that business. I concur -- this is my #1 problem with Ning and I just don't understand…"

"I agree. We will be leaving NING very soon if an adequate work around is not found. Are there any Creators that use Enterprise Web Solutions' Subscription Manager? "

"Several options exist. We will be testing a plug-in called S2Member. "

"Recurring payments is a must"

"I don't have wordpress so just asking a dumb question here, does WP allow for paid access?  How do groups work on WP?  "

"Paid access features on a web site typically are more detailed in what they offer but that's not the case at Ning. We assummed auto renewal was inherent to the program and we were wrong so we accept some of the blame here. We really like the…"

"Yes we noticed that too."

"Yes, it would be nice to have some more transparency here around why certain items are prioritized over others.  It doesn't make sense that we can be billed with a recurring feature, but we can't have that feature to use on our own…"

"The only autorenewal that works on Ning is our monthly bill come to think of it."

"You can either leave Ning now (as it does not have this feature now) or look at workarounds. Whether you prefer a workaround so you can have the other benefits or not is up to you. I have had auto-renewal on my network for a couple of years and some…"

"I'd like to add a few comments here. We left Word Press because at the time (about 2 years ago) they had nothing in place that worked well enough for paid access. Since we were planning a subscription website we had no choice but to leave. We…"