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I'm looking for a subscription model so unless PayPal has a recurring billing, I can't use it. Thanks for the tip anyway.

by shadowz 17y ago

qeorge 17y ago
Perhaps you could combine it with something like Spreedly? http://spreedly.com/info/payment-gateways/ http://spreedly.com/info/payment-gateways/ I haven't used them before, but I am looking for an excuse to try them out.
njl 17y ago
If you're looking at doing subscription stuff, check out spreedly, http://spreedly.com/ http://spreedly.com/. They'll handle all of the subscription and billing stuff for you, and abstract away whomever you end up using as a gateway. They do support Paypal as a backend.
rscott 17y ago
I'm pretty sure Paypal does have recurring payments. I think they call it a subscription payment.
- qeorge 17y ago
  AFAIK this is not available through their gateway - you have to send the user to PayPal.com and even then I believe they have to use a PayPal account to subscribe. If there's a way around this I would love to know.
  - jcoby 17y ago
    subscriptions are available through the direct api (your site) and express api (paypal hop) if using websites payments pro. however, if you offer direct, paypal requires that you offer express as well. payments standard only supports something similar to express, although it's a totally different beast.
    - qeorge 17y ago
      That is awesome, thank you.
  - braindead_in 17y ago
    They have a NVP API for subscription payments. https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_nvp_NVPAPIOverview https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c... I haven't tried it yet though.
100k 17y ago
My experience with payment gateways (note: I have not tried the new subscription services: Chargify, Spreedly, etc) was that their recurring billing support was rather inflexible. We had to implement it ourselves to get the customer experience we wanted (30 day free trials, that kind of stuff). So this may be less of a downside than you suppose.

I'm looking for a subscription model so unless PayPal has a recurring billing, I can't use it. Thanks for the tip anyway.

by shadowz 17y ago

I'm looking for a subscription model so unless PayPal has a recurring billing, I can't use it. Thanks for the tip anyway.

qeorge 17y ago

Perhaps you could combine it with something like Spreedly? http://spreedly.com/info/payment-gateways/ http://spreedly.com/info/payment-gateways/ I haven't used them before, but I am looking for an excuse to try them out.

njl 17y ago

If you're looking at doing subscription stuff, check out spreedly, http://spreedly.com/ http://spreedly.com/. They'll handle all of the subscription and billing stuff for you, and abstract away whomever you end up using as a gateway. They do support Paypal as a backend.

rscott 17y ago

I'm pretty sure Paypal does have recurring payments. I think they call it a subscription payment.

qeorge 17y ago
AFAIK this is not available through their gateway - you have to send the user to PayPal.com and even then I believe they have to use a PayPal account to subscribe. If there's a way around this I would love to know.
- jcoby 17y ago
  subscriptions are available through the direct api (your site) and express api (paypal hop) if using websites payments pro. however, if you offer direct, paypal requires that you offer express as well. payments standard only supports something similar to express, although it's a totally different beast.
  - qeorge 17y ago
    That is awesome, thank you.
- braindead_in 17y ago
  They have a NVP API for subscription payments. https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_nvp_NVPAPIOverview https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c... I haven't tried it yet though.

100k 17y ago

My experience with payment gateways (note: I have not tried the new subscription services: Chargify, Spreedly, etc) was that their recurring billing support was rather inflexible. We had to implement it ourselves to get the customer experience we wanted (30 day free trials, that kind of stuff). So this may be less of a downside than you suppose.