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.

[insanctus]

Updated File If You Already Installed Do The Following.

Open /subscriptions/paypal.php And Find

if ($_POST['txn_type'] == 'web_accept' AND $_POST['payment_status'] == 'Completed')

Replace With

if ($_POST['txn_type'] == 'web_accept' AND $_POST['payment_status'] == 'Completed' OR $_POST['txn_type'] == 'subscr_payment' AND $_POST['payment_status'] == 'Completed')

Sorry about that, darn power.....

[Boofo]

I don't mean to sound simple here, but what does this actually do?

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I don't mean to sound simple here, but what does this actually do?

Ok vbulletin paypal subscriptions only charges one time, so if you set up a monthly fee your users have to redo it every month or loss there forum access or what ever else you give them.

This takes it and turns it into reoccuring payments (if you choose that option)

This way they pay you every set ammount of time you picked for that subscription and it checks to see if it gets paid every month

For instance, say you have a paying members 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 automaticly your script gets updated and sets their new expiration.

The vbulletin subscriptions before only worked one time per click now you can do reoccuring

Hope that makes sence, if not I will drink some coffee and try again

[Boofo]

No, you explained it very well, thank you. I don't have any paypal subscriptions set up on my board but I will click install and install it anyway as this should be default in vb3. Good job!

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by Boofo

No, you explained it very well, thank you. I don't have any paypal subscriptions set up on my board but I will click install and install it anyway as this should be default in vb3. Good job!

Many thanks , I prolly should write a better explination in first post.

Never know they may toss my code in the next update

[high]* insanctus laughs and dreams on.[/high]

[Boofo]

If this working in this version then?

Originally Posted by insanctus

I have mine set up to do monthly reacuring on my personal site, the only thing it does not have so far is a check to see if paid monthly, so if they cancled I have to change it manualy.

This quote is from the other thread.

[insanctus]

Yes it is working in this version hence why the release.

I had to get some data built up on it.

[Boofo]

I thought so but I wanted to be sure. Again, excellent job!

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I thought so but I wanted to be sure. Again, excellent job!

Never hurts to ask and most welcome.

I learned 'alot' about paypal in last 4 days or so, and I wanted to make sure I had the payments tight

[TheEDIGuy]

Excellent job. Clicking Install, and installing it right now, much to the delight of my monthly subscribers.

Thanks!