When someone starts a recurring subscription, i pass on the custom variable which contains the User ID of the user on my system. After the payment I receive two IPNs, subscr_signup and subscr_payment. Both have the custom variable in them which lets me identify the user. However, for future recurring payments, will the IPN continue to p...
I wanted to use Paypal's IPN service to verify payments for a recurring subscription charge for my website. How do you tie the IPN confirmations to a user in your site? The IPN confirmation message has a name, email, paypal ID, recurring payment ID, but it seems to not give a unique identifier since I don't know where the paypal ID or ...
I’m trying to implement the following scenario: User approves a recurrent weekly payment (subscription) for a selected package size Every week the user can: a. Cancel a specific week delivery and avoid paying for this week b. Modify the package size and pay less/more for this time only c. Add additional items and get charged for them i...
I want to sell online. and I tried to create a Paypal account and surprise, surprise : Paypal doesn't support my country. so what can I do ? i checked out 2checkout.com and it does support my country. and 2checkout seems to mention they accept payments from Paypal account. what do you think i should do ? ...
I am wanting to create a fixed term membership site (12 months) that drip feeds information each month to paid members via an autoresponder. I am wanting to use Paypal as the payment gateway. Does anyone know how I trigger the delivery of the first month's content once payment is received and cancel delivery when they cancel? I know how...
Hi guys - this is a follow up on my question on paypal integration. I'm working ona membership site for racing fans. My membership site has 3 membership levels - free, gold and premium. When a user signs up he/she can gets a free membership on the spot but has the option to upgrade to a gold membership for 4 Dollars a month or a premium ...
I am adding subscriptions to a site using Paypal IPN which works very well, I can successfully create a new subscription and verify it. The subscription has a two week free trial. The guide was unfortunately a little vague on subscription statuses. At the moment, the users account gets subscribed status once subscr_signup or subscr_paym...
I'd like to test paypal subscription IPNs, both the ones received when a subscription is created, and the ones sent later with the next payment (such as monthly if the subscription is $x per month). However I'd prefer not to wait a month or a day to receive the second IPN. Is there a way to have an IPN sent quicker, such as hourly, usin...
Situation: Selling $9.99 subscription service billed monthly. User will be able to pay through the site via credit card or paypal (Paypal Pro). Will use reference ID to automatically charge account every month. Question regarding Paypal process: I want to offer users ability to cancels their account through the website's "my accoun...
Hello, I am trying to implement a recurring subscription service on a website using PayPal however I would like to offer a free trial period before the user is billed and the subscription is started. Is this possible using PayPal's API? I have very little experience using the PayPal API and cannot seem to find any useful documentation ...
I am working on e-commerce application using asp.net MVC with C#. I need to authorize the users who signs up with the application with the credit card. 1). When the user sign up, i need to get the credit card details and authorize the card by either Paypal or Authorize.net without saving the credit card details except subscription id o...
I am using the Paypal standard (HTML 'API') to integrate Paypal to my website. I have managed to display 'subscribe' buttons for recurring payments, using HTML variables as specified in the Paypal documentation. However, there is one serious "show stopper" problem: I am unable to get Paypal to recognize sales tax amount for RECURRING P...
Could anybody recommend a up-to-date class (or payment system) for handling paypal recurring payments with PHP? Thank you! UPDATE: I ended up using the PaypalNVP class by Peter Reisinger. Unfortunately, that was a very long time ago and I can't seem to locate it online (the readme and class files had no URL - just the name). If you c...
Hello, I'm trying to research how to add a subscription based pay model on an existing site of mine, but am running into a lot of conflicting information and caused me to be a bit lost. All I need is a very simple way to set up recurring billing (per month) by credit card. I just need a simple solution, but am having a hard time findi...
It's not a problem but i don't know how to do this; let's say that I have a sign up form with some fields: username, password, email, as you know the user clicks on the BUY BUTTON and pay's up. Well, how can I know the username that just made the payment, I mean how can I link those two things together, one idea it's to use the email ad...
I'm using website payments standard to create recurring payments for subscriptions. I need to find out when the next billing date is, so it looks like I can use GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails nvp api with the recurring payment profile id. But when I send the recurring payment profile id I get a failure back: {'ack':'Failure',.... ...
I would like to set up a premium subscription service for a PHP/MySQL based site. The site is Wordpress based, but highly customized and I'm not looking for a plugin solution necessarily. To oversimplify, I need to query the signed in user's subscription level (paid or free) and tailor the content that gets presented accordingly. I'm lo...
I have been reading alot documentation surrounding recurring payments and paypal. It can be frustrating at times to setup paypal especially when you are not told of the requirements and restrictions that apply to the paypal service you are trying to setup. I wanted to setup recurring payments because I would like to provide options for m...
I am trying to design a web application(using php and mysql) in which I will ask my clients to pay via paypal subscription, which detects money from the clients paypal account automatically and transfers it to my paypal account. Now when a client logs into my web application after 3 months of time, is there a way my web application to k...
I've been researching eCommerce payment gateways and service offerings, but I'm an eCommerce novice, so please excuse my ignorance. I wish to set up an eCommerce solution with the following requirements: User "subscribes" to the service on a yearly basis. This service includes a single product subscription for a set amount (let's sa...