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.

[Erwin]

The only thing keeping me from installing this is that I am sure the next vB3 update will have this, and I don't want to muck up the database with extra fields. On the other hand, great job. I will press install in the meantime.

[Erwin]

Ah, what the heck, I installed it.

[Erwin]

By the way, if the member wants to cease the reoccuring subscriptions, how does he or she do that? I need to provide instructions.

[TheEDIGuy]

One little typo in Step 3:

<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ammount\" value=\"$cost\" />

Only one M in there...

[ranger2kxlt]

what about something like.....another drop down right under the price on the subscription page...that says one time or reoccuring? that way they can choose if they want to pay once or for life? I would install that :-D

Thanks...looks like a useful hack (wish i could use that)

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by Erwin

By the way, if the member wants to cease the reoccuring subscriptions, how does he or she do that? I need to provide instructions.

They log into their paypal, and hit cancle on that subscription. It will stop their payments , hence stoping the update of their time expire date.

Originally Posted by ranger2kxlt

what about something like.....another drop down right under the price on the subscription page...that says one time or reoccuring? that way they can choose if they want to pay once or for life? I would install that :-D

Thanks...looks like a useful hack (wish i could use that)

I may in the future, sounds like an interesting idea.

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by TheEDIGuy

One little typo in Step 3:

Only one M in there...

Actually that <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ammount\" value=\"$cost\" /> is useless any how

Subscriptions uses a3

[Majik?]

Excellent addition.. :up: I'll never know why some things weren't inluded originally.

[Erwin]

I agree... if you make the checkbox on the subscription page itself, it would make it easier to implement. Great hack nonetheless.

[insanctus]

I think that would be a sepperate hack, and the two would conflict.

Reason is, say you as admin want it to be reoccuring, then their check box is in effect useless.

Plus lets face it most members are not bright enough to read all of what they are doing in the first place.