[LRUG] Recurring Payments and subscriptions

[Paul Campbell]

Paypal Payments Standard is really a fantastic, fantastic solution,
for what it is.

With some coaxing, you can also get Paypal Payments Express up and
running, which is slightly less obtrusive, and lets you use their API
rather than IPN to be sure a payment goes through:

http://www.codyfauser.com/2008/1/17/paypal-express-payments-with-activemerchant

+1 for RealEx with a merchant account, but getting a merchant account,
for me, isn't really worth the hassle when it's an MVP. I have one,
but I'm paying monthly for the privilege and not making enough back to
cover it!

—P

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Chris Parsons
<chris at edendevelopment.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31 January 2011 13:54, Tim Harding <tim.harding at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's a shame you've had a different experience, it was a very easy way to
>> get up and going on day one for us.
>
> Same here: I got Paypal up and running a few years back very easily
> using recurring payments. We did go through the same process that Tim
> did, verifying our bank accounts etc, but it wasn't much hassle. Our
> implementation is a very simple subscribe button which redirects to
> Paypal's payment pages, so that might explain the difference.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
>> On 30 January 2011 16:40, George Palmer <george.palmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I've had numerous problems in the past getting PayPal to turn recurring
>>> > billing on. You need to pay for their Website Payments Pro account,
>>> > which is
>>> > not a simple transaction: it's pretty much a full merchant account
>>> > application, and the bar they ask you to jump over is relatively high.
>>> > You
>>> > need to have been trading for 3+ years with them, and have a reasonable
>>> > trading history with them on their standard package before they'll
>>> > really
>>> > consider you, in my experience.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if that's still the case, or if it is, we seemed to have
>>> slipped through the net.  We setup on a new business account and at
>>> the time of applying for recurring payments, had been a company for
>>> less than 2 years.
>>>
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