We operate a company directory. We create profiles for companies and let a member of the company claim ownership of the profile, assigning them as author and giving ability to edit their company's profile.
We currently use woocommerce attached to Forms to enable companies in our directory to claim their company profile. The way it works now is a user who is authorised by the company completes an form to claim ownership that edits the company profile post and sets its status as Pending... the form has a payment associated with it ((for which our charge is $0) when the user completes the transaction on Woocommerce the authorship of the company-profile post is automatically assigned to the user completing the form. The company profile post in question would be reviewed by us before being republished with the new author.
That used to work well for us as we were planning to roll out a freemium model where companies would have the option of paying for premium services. We are no longer looking at doing that and are looking for an easy alternative to Woocommerce to automate the transfer of authorship to a person claiming a profile.
What we want to achieve is basically removing the transaction component. so that the form is completed and when the form is submitted authorship is transferred, the post goes to Pending, we get a notification (I know how to do this) and we must approve and republish the profile.
