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Simple. Send the customer to PayPal with a subscription request, the amount and customer id. They activate the subscription and pay. Get that id back via IPN af
by eruci 8y ago
Simple. Send the customer to PayPal with a subscription request, the amount and customer id. They activate the subscription and pay. Get that id back via IPN after each new subscription. Deliver the service. Done!
- detaro 8y agoHow does that match the use case here, with billing per minute? If the user has to confirm each subscription, you can't efficiently create new subscriptions for e.g. each call. You also can't know beforehand how much you'll need to bill. If you're at the end of the month sending a single "here's everything" request, I fail to see how that's different from what's described in the article.
- base 8y agoPaypal has APIs that support that. Example: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/ec_set_up_reference_transactions/ https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/e...