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]

Originally Posted by ThePowerPig

i know it's not a bug, but novice users would be confused with this, so I thought I'd update it

Yes if they read down the thread, I think making two instructions would be more confusing.

Originally Posted by rick

I have a yearly membership system. Can this be setup to make yearly transactions?

This looks like a great hack. Thanks.

Yes just pick one year, those who subscribe after you set it up will be reoccuring

[corsacrazy]

what about all the members who are already subscribed?

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by corsacrazy

what about all the members who are already subscribed?

This will not effect them until next time they subscribe.

[corsacrazy]

Originally Posted by insanctus

This will not effect them until next time they subscribe.

any query i can run to make them already have the auto subscribe option?

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by corsacrazy

any query i can run to make them already have the auto subscribe option?

No due to that is all paypal side, when they paid they agreed with paypal one time.

Now with this they are agreeing to reoccuring. So next time they subscribe, it is all set.

[spence2]

Thank you very much for this hack!

Can you say how your testing with offering an initial payment & reoccuring subscription payments is coming along?

BTW, just because you would know and getting a question answered at vb.com is like waiting for the icecap to thaw...in the SM, there appear to be options for currencies:

Could anyone tell me whether I can enter payments in all three currencies? Or do you choose one? (Say, either dollars or pounds?) To accept all three currencies is there any back-ending that I need to implement at Paypal?

Thanks again for sharing your work.

[insanctus]

Originally Posted by spence2

Thank you very much for this hack!

Can you say how your testing with offering an initial payment & reoccuring subscription payments is coming along?

BTW, just because you would know and getting a question answered at vb.com is like waiting for the icecap to thaw...in the SM, there appear to be options for currencies:

Could anyone tell me whether I can enter payments in all three currencies? Or do you choose one? (Say, either dollars or pounds?) To accept all three currencies is there any back-ending that I need to implement at Paypal?

Thanks again for sharing your work.

As for types of currencie I can only assume it would work, I have never used them so there I am at a loss, but from what I have 'seen' I would say they would be ok.

As for my initial it is doing a hit or miss, and with my gallery taking up more time I have yet to fine tune it.

But I can assure that hack to do an initial will be out soon

[insanctus]

The new one I am working on is almost done, that will allow for you to choose an initial payment and a dif reoccurring

It is working, just a bit of work to do on the look

[corsacrazy]

slightly off topic:

any way to make the system move the user from the paid usergroup back to the standard one as my vb3 doesnt do that mate

[insanctus]

It should do it in the cron job, due to it sets how long it is active for....