A: Hey, thank you for the question.

The community feature is a forum for discussions about your academy topics. You can have the community forum be open to anyone who signs up (free for all users) or limit it to only those who subscribe to any of your membership tiers. With the Scale plan, you can even create multiple community channels: some may be free, others limited to paying users, and others only for yourself and your team for announcements.

The Scale plan is sold as a subscription on our website. The Basic and Start plans can be acquired as lifetime deals here through AppSumo, though. With that said, the Scale plan is $149/month on our site for any default customer, but is offered for as little as $49/month to anyone who joins Forento from AppSumo with a lifetime deal license.

/Adrian at Forento