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.

[Boofo]

Any progress on the new version?

[insanctus]

It is all done cept the look, I have been putting most my time into the gallery I sell, seems it is becoming a hot item.

But I hope to finish up the new version of this hack this week. Although it will be released in a seperate thread due to it does more then some may need...

[Boofo]

Please let me know when the new version is posted.

[sketch42]

i like this hack very much and have installed it but i would like to know if its possible in the next vers or if this is a paypal issue... but i offer access to a download seection and if they cancel their subscriptionafter one day they get what they downloaded and ended up not paying.. so is it possible to get the payments prorated upon cancelling subscription???

Great Hack BTW

[Jpax]

Originally Posted by sketch42

i like this hack very much and have installed it but i would like to know if its possible in the next vers or if this is a paypal issue... but i offer access to a download seection and if they cancel their subscriptionafter one day they get what they downloaded and ended up not paying.. so is it possible to get the payments prorated upon cancelling subscription???


Great Hack BTW

I would like to know also, I m running VB3.0.1 and would like to have a yearly subscription to allow into a forum for viewing content they paid for, ALSO is it possable to EDIT the USER that paid for the subscription to be able to UPLOAD attachments, like they pay and they can add attchments now.

[sketch42]

Originally Posted by Jpax

ALSO is it possable to EDIT the USER that paid for the subscription to be able to UPLOAD attachments, like they pay and they can add attchments now.

just set it up in the ACP ....
ACP >Forums and Moderators > Forum Permissions> Forum X(insert your forum here)> Usergroup X(insert the your usergroup here) > Edit > Post Permissions > Can Upload Attachments [x] Yes [ ]No

and save :classic:

EDIT: almost forgot ... goto your subscription manager and make sure you check off on the right by the usergroups the name of the usergroup you want to have access to that section... as well as setting the forums that they have access to

[insanctus]

^ Correct.

As for if they cancle well sadly if they buy then download and cancle there is little you can do but be happy you got the first payment.

Myself I use a first time payment on my site (price of software) then a reoccuring yearly (for updates on said software)

[sketch42]

Originally Posted by insanctus

^ Correct.

As for if they cancle well sadly if they buy then download and cancle there is little you can do but be happy you got the first payment.

Myself I use a first time payment on my site (price of software) then a reoccuring yearly (for updates on said software)

if they cancel after a day does it refund them the money?

[Yahhoon23]

Nope. Say they sign up for a monthly sub at $5 per month.

You get their first $5 payment, then they cancel the subscription. You still get to keep their first payment and they don't get any refunds unless they try to request a refund from paypal.

Then since their sub has been cancelled, after their first month of use is up, they go back to the registered group.

[Amzadi]

I offer subscriptions based on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly rates.
Daily - $4, Weekly - $21, Monthly - $60 & Yearly - $365
Now while the amounts may be excessive for your sites, look at the structure. It increases the daily cost for the shorter terms. If you're getting a lot of cancellations after the first subscription, this may be a good idea for you to use.