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.

[Q-v-n-s-Q]

Originally Posted by Anarchy

I'm having trouble now with both my forums and they were working fine. Did paypal change the way it sends back its info?

Its making the subscription, but not adding the subscription to the subscriptions in vbulletin.

i have the same problem too, when i install this hack work perfect , but i have to add new members subscription manually.

* wondering is there anyway to fix it?? im running vb 3.0.7 ** thanks

[kmike]

I, too, had to uninstall this hack because of missing PayPal callbacks. Not sure if it ever worked for us.

[sunnycher]

any answers on this?

Originally Posted by sunnycher

This thread is very confusing.
I am running VB 3.07 and VBA 1.0
so the paypal subscriptions I have set up (without this hack) are not going to automatically renew? BUT they will get a notice that their subscription is getting ready to expire though, right? And they have the option of renewing.

BUT, with this hack, it will automatically do it for them? Mine are annually.
also, when it automatically renews it, does it do it at the CURRENT rate or the rate they paid a year ago?

Thanks for helping me understand!

[Apophis]

Originally Posted by sub_ubi

Anyone up for porting a bunch of old "reocurring" subscriptions to 3.5? The new payment system is much better, so having both work at the same time would be wonderful. Old people keep their subscriptions, new people sign up with the new system.

I started a thread in the 3.5 Modification Request Forums that addresses this very issue. I'm willing to pay a coder to pull this one off for me.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=94843

It will be near impossible for me to get all of my subscribed members to cancel and resubscribe through the new system so I would love a way to be able to upgrade to 3.5 while maintaining backwards compatibility with 3.0.7.

[Apophis]

Has anyone managed to work out a vBulletin 3.5.0 backwards compatible hack yet? My offer still stands, if anyone can develop this, I will certainly be willing to pay for your efforts!

[ashley53680]

I would love this for 3.5!

[contemptx]

anyone managed to get this working or is this hacknow dead and we dont have a recurring payment hack for 3.0.x?

it would be great to get this hack working as i find 3.5 hogs cpu usage.

[mfarmerhi]

Originally Posted by contemptx

anyone managed to get this working or is this hacknow dead and we dont have a recurring payment hack for 3.0.x?

it would be great to get this hack working as i find 3.5 hogs cpu usage.

For 3.0.x versions, I believe there's an error in the instructions for Step #3 Open includes/functions_subscriptions.php

I believe it should read:

		case 'paypal':
		$form['action'] = 'https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';
		$form['method'] = 'post';
		/// Add In For Reacuring Payments
		$paypalextra = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "subscription AS subscription WHERE subscriptionid=$subscriptionid");
		if($paypalextra[reoccur]==0){// It is one time
		$form['hiddenfields'] = "
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_xclick\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"$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\" />";

		}else{
		$form['hiddenfields'] = "
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_xclick-subscriptions\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"$vboptions[ppemail]\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"$title Subscription\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_number\" value=\"$item\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"$currency\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"a3\" value=\"$cost\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"p3\" value=\"$paypalextra[length]\">
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"t3\" value=\"$paypalextra[units]\">
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"src\" value=\"1\">
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"sra\" value=\"1\">
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"no_shipping\" value=\"1\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"return\" value=\"$vboptions[bburl]\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"notify_url\" value=\"$vboptions[bburl]/subscriptions/paypal.php\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"custom\" value=\"$userinfo[username]\" />
			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"no_note\" value=\"1\" />";
	
		}
			break;

As it was written, non-reoccurring subscriptions were not being updated by vB for Paypal users not using IPN; and subscriber were charged shipping. Further, as it was written Emails to the Admin didn't include the subscriber's names.

The updated code was taken directly from vB's original coding and, for the life of me, I can't see why it would have been changed in the if/else statement. The if/else statement takes care of non-reoccurring/reoccurring, but the coding for non-reoccurring should remain the same in either the hacked version or the non-hacked version. (Hope that makes sense...)

~ Mark

[mfarmerhi]

I'd like to ensure that this thread is linked to this thread discussing what the heck to do if you decide later to raise prices: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=73419

If you raise prices after installing the reoccurring hack, you'll have problems with everyone's subscription who subscribed BEFORE the price raise: because their auto subscription payments no longer match the new price, their subscriptions will fail, requiring them to re-subscribe.

In that linked thread I describe a down and dirty hack to prevent some of the problems.