Reoccurring Paypal Subscriptions

What this does (added in first post)

With the current vbulletin subscription set up, it only charges your members one time. So if you have a pay based site, or forum area they have to keep subscribing, and causing them to waste time and effort (and maybe you lose money)

What this does, is give you the option if you want one time payment (standard vb) or reoccurring payment.

When you choose reoccurring the script has them sign up for a reoccurring payment, as paypal sends you confirmation each time you get a subscription payment, your system will now update their access time.

This will save your members from having to resign up all the time and hopefully save you some money


For instance, say you have a paying member?s only area, and you want them to have to pay $10 a month.

With this you can charge per month and it handles all the charges, and every month they send another payment automatically your script gets updated and sets their new expiration.


This has been asked for many times and IMO should have been in to begin with.

Enjoy and I will help as I can.

Note from the new supporter: This hack is now being actively supported again. I have updated the install instructions to work for version 3.0.7, and we can now begin to work out any existing bugs. This code is still raw and has not been tested extensively due to the difficult nature of testing paypal transactions.

[version2]

Originally Posted by version2

Hey, uh, everyone...I think I might see a problem here.

When I installed this last month my subscribers started subscribing. In my paypal register I can see the 'Subscription Creation' line as well as the 'Payment' line for each new subscriber. Well, a month later it is *almost* time for renewal and I am getting 'Subscription Creations' as well as payments again. And the first subscription creation still look like they are active and are not set to renew for a couple of days now.

What do I need to do?! Is this a problem? I dont really want to wait a couple to find out I am doublebilling all my subscribers.

Well, its because vb is still sending out reminders and my members are re-subscribing. How can I stop this?!

[alkatraz]

vb3.0.3
didn't work for me

got this error in admincp \ clicking on subscriptions

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CASE in /home/alkatraz/public_html/board/includes/functions_subscriptions.php on line 410

may have something to do with my functions_subscriptions being different.. (but unmodified to my knowledge)

PHP Code:

        $form['hiddenfields'] = "
            <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" />
            <input type="hidden" name="business" value="$vboptions[ppemail]" />
            <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="$title Subscription" />
            <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="$item" />
            <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="$cost" />
            <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="$currency" />
            <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1" />
            <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="0.00" />
            <input type="hidden" name="return" value="$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome].php" />
            <input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="$vboptions[bburl]/subscriptions/paypal.php" />
            <input type="hidden" name="custom" value="$userinfo[username]" />
            <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1" />";
            break; 


uninstalled

[cosycole]

I installed this hack as we are a subscription site with downloadable linkware collection for the game The Sims. I never got it to work though, if anyone would care to give me a hand I would be most appreciative, as this hack sure is every subscription sites dream
NiCole

[nautiqeman]

I'm having a problem whereby when I have the recurring checkbox clicked it doesn't update the user info in vb -- but if I don't have it clicked it works just fine. Any Ideas???

[Godzilla MR2]

any issues on 3.0.3?

[hichew]

Originally Posted by Godzilla MR2

any issues on 3.0.3?

i think it's not working with vb 3.0.3
any response from the author ?

[hasan2k]

Originally Posted by hichew

i think it's not working with vb 3.0.3
any response from the author ?

I agree.

The one time payment goes through.
Reoccuring feature does not work.

I have double checked everything to make sure the hack is properly coded in the forum but NO luck. Can someone help?

I am using VB 3.0.3

[jcr]

Originally Posted by idslamyou

I have had this installed for a month or so. I am just starting to get some members. They are able to subscribe and I get the notice from paypal about their payment, but their usergroup is not changing. I have doublechecked to make sure I have checked the additional usergroup to add them too. Can anyone help?

I have the exact same problem :-/ Please we need help!

[amykhar]

The author can't support you guys. He is no longer a licensed user.

[kbadr]

Anyone get this to work on 3.0.3? I was all excited about this hack until I read the last few posts.