A friend of mine wants to provide a regional website in exchange for payment to access various boards. I am planning to suggest Elk for the project. I have not tried the paid subscription module yet. Is it suitable for such a project ?
At the moment I'd say it depends on the payment method he wants to use.
Currently Elk supports Paypal, Authorize and twoCheckOut payment gateways, any other one needs implementation.
I guess it will be easier for him to create group and receive payments via bank accounts as he normally do. Creating different user groups and adding members to user groups according to payments would be a good idea that suggesting him go the e-way. He is not very tech savvy.