Paypal IPN (subscription system) interest check:
 

Is there interest from this comunity for an automated subscriptions system ?
With automated payment with paypal ?

If yes, what features would be needed.

Greetings.

its already done with VB Trader ...
check out this site, The admin installed VB trader tonight

http://www.myfootballforum.com/index.php?s=

Only took him about 20 minuites and it was up and going

i think he would be providing a free script.. and not one at $60 lol
no offence to you trafix as i know u worked v.hard on vb trader.. but some folk may provide a lesser script thats free

I would definately install it if you were to create it.

You quoted Australian $$ not US

After a lot of investigation and research i found out that you should not have an automated donation script based on Paypal's IPN system. There are ways to cheat the system and its open to fraud etc. So i have my system working so that i manually set the donators up in the admin cp and then it automatically expires after the donation period is finished :)

- miSt

vb trader... huh?

I highly recommend aMember with it's vbulletin plugin:

http://www.cgi-central.net/scripts/amember/

Cost should not be an issue here if you are looking for payments anyways... well, within reason :D

It has many features that I think would be hard to find elsewhere and you do not only have to rely on paypal... many other payment processors can be used and offered as choices to your subscribers.

The coupons feature is invaluable if you are serious about a subsription model in order to produce time-based incentives. With some creative thinking and implementation, you can use the coupons as a type of affiliate tracking system and give your users seperate batches of coupons to use to get more subscribers :D

There is a free version you can use to test out certain features, though you have to purchase the pro upgrade and the additional plugin for vB for complete automation.

Additional plugins are available for hivemail, listmail, and a couple of other 3rd party scripts.

Anyways, food for thought in your searches :D

Cheers,

~Regs.

That amember script looks good. :)

I have added extra security measures to VB Trader so it cant be cheated :)