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.

[MajorFm.com]

Its workin on 3.0.3 for me...!


http://www.majorfm.com/forum/subscriptions.php

[sub_ubi]

Working on 3.03 for me as well, but I paid someone for help :P

Anyone have any luck with the upgrade to 3.04? It doesn't seem to overwrite any of the files..

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124876

[MajorFm.com]

also what if the user e.g. its £1 a month

on the second month, paypal will take the money out automatially but how does vb know its been paid, and if the user cancels the paypal account, how does vb know to withdraw the subsciption?

[sub_ubi]

Paypal has a service called Instant Payment Notification (IPN). The information paypal relays to your site (aka, your forum) is handled accordingly.

If a person cancels or doesn't have enough funds to pay, IPN sends that information to vbulletin.

So has anyone done an upgrade with this to 3.04? I'm running 3.03 right now.

[MajorFm.com]

So if someone cancels payment, it will tell my forum this payment was not made, cancel their "vip" access...

Ok fantastic, i have IPN set up all ready so this will be automatic!

Thank you... perfect hack!!

[Sal Collaziano]

I''m sorry if this has already been noted but does the User have the option to pay with recurring payments or not? If not, I think it would be a good idea - and that's the only reason I wont install this mod.. Reason being, I think some people might get scared-away from the thought of being automatically billed.. If they're given the option to have the funds taken from their account automatically, that would be perfect...

[MajorFm.com]

When you set up the subscription, you can set it so its reoccuring or standard, so you can set up 2 options if you like e.g.

VIP Re-Occuring
VIP Standard

[Sal Collaziano]

Very good! I'm going to download this now and install it shortly.

[sub_ubi]

Anyone have this working with 3.06?

[Zate]

yes does it work with 3.0.6 ?

if not whats the errors?