How would you set up charging for categories?

[imported_DougM]

I intend to allow merchants to pay for storing images of products and links to buy them in my gallery. I thought this would be simple but now that I'm doing it, I am scratching my head a lot.

1) I am using vb's paid subscription to automatically manage payments.

2) I created one usergroup (Merchants) to manage Gallery permissions for these subscribers.

NOW, how do I set this up in Gallery so that they can do as they please with their category only? It makes sense to use the "Users Category" built in feature but it's not working for me. This group can still upload images to other categories and they won't want categories to have their username, but the name of their business, "The Red T-Shirt Store" not "Joe W"

Ideally I want this usergroup to be able to upload to only their own category and create sub-categories within that category.

Any ideas or better yet, examples?

Thanks

::: EDIT :::

It seems that in the end, my only problem is that the usergroup can still upload photos to any category even though I have "Act as members category" set to "no". I'm looking for a way to restrict this to only the category they created. Getting closer.

Set up a main category, set the upload and create new categories options to 'No' for all groups but your merchants group, and that should be it.