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Perhaps you want to allow your users the option to purchase things from your site with their Activity Points. This tutorial deals with that feature.
First, you'll need to enable the Purchase Purchasing with Activity Points feature and set up user group settings as you want them.
Please note that once Purchase Purchasing with Activity Points is enabled, it is a sitewide site-wide setting and will allow users to purchase anything that is at a price on the site - ads, marketplace Marketplace items, subscriptions, etc.
This is for the default product and not having to do with third-party products as those vendors would need to deal with Purchase with Points for their products. If looking to use this with third-party products, please contact those vendors.
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This assumes you are already logged in with as the Admin user and are logged into the AdminCPAdmin CP.
Enabling Purchase with Points Setting
Go to Settings and choose Settings in Users section.
From Admin CP> Installed> select Activity point app
Scroll down to the settings for Allow member to Purchase with Activity Points
- Activity Points Conversion Rate - Set the Conversion rate per currency. If you add currencies later, you need to remember to come back here and set it for any new ones added.
- Purchasing with Activity Points - Yes to allow users to purchase with points and No will disable this feature.
- Purchase Activity Points - This allows users to buy points from you. It requires you to have a payment gateway set up.
Enabling and Managing User Group Settings for Purchasing with Points
Each user group has its own settings for the Purchase with Points feature. You will need to check each user group and set it how you want it. Please see the User Group Settings tutorial for how to manage user groups.Once Once you are in select the user group you want to change, scroll down to the User settings, click that and to the right will be the see the list of settings . Find Can purchase with activity points? Click where you can manage and set permission for a specific user groups. Click Yes to enable or No to disable.
Note that there are default values for how many points are purchased. This is hard coded hardcoded and if you want to change that, you will need a developer to customize it.
Gifting Points
You might want your users to be able to gift points to their friends as well. Once you enable them to be able to purchase with points, do the following:
When in the user group settings for this user group, select Core settings and to the right, find 
Allow to use Activity Points for exchanging items - Yes to allow users to purchase with points and No will disable this feature.
Allow member to Purchase Activity Points - This allows users to buy points from you. It requires you to have a payment gateway set up.
Can members of this user group gift activity points. Set to Yes for enabled or No for disabled.
?- You might want your users to be able to gift points to their friends as well.
Setting Points for User Groups
Once you are in the user group manager, and editing a user group, you can set the amount of points allowed per feature You can set a number of points users will receive when doing things such as posting a blog, photo, etc. As an example, we will change the points for photo uploads.In the user group setting for your user group you are changing, select Photo settings and to the right, scroll down to the input box for Activity Points and change it how you want it. We changed ours to 10. That means for each photo From the Activity Point App setting page> click on Point Setting tab.
We set the number to 1. That means for each blog/attchment uploaded, the user will get 10 1 points. 
You can edit the number of your choice by clicking on the number.
Purchase Activity points
After enable enabling the setting Purchase Activity Points, users can purchase activity points following these below steps:
- Go to their user profile page.
- Click on the profile's drop-down menu, choose Activity Points.
- Click on Purchase Points link, the same row as Activity Points.
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- Packages button on the right side of the page
- By clicking on the button it takes user to the Point Packages list where user can select package then make the purchase.
- After purchasing completely, Activity Points will be added to the account of the user.