Questions tagged [paypal-subscriptions]

Refers to PayPal Subscriptions and Recurring Payments. Supports automatically recurring subscriptions from websites, or other links.

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments is a way for systems to accept credit card and bank account payments for content site subscriptions, newsletter fees, club dues, or recurring donations, and can be fully integrated with websites.

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PayPal subscription: cost not shown at checkout?

I am using the PayPal SDK for php. And I "think" everything is working. Create plan -> activate plan -> create agreement -> redirect user to agree -> execute agreement. done? I find it very strange that when the user is redirected to PayPal, they…
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Count active subscriptions with PayPal API?

I need to use PHP to count the number of active subscriptions in my PayPal account (people subscribed to my service, not the counts of services I'm subscribed to). Does anyone know how to do this or can point me in the right direction? I can't find…
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Preapproval key in Android

How can i obtain PreApproval key for PayPal subscription? How the Preapprovals are working in Android?
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PHP PayPal Subscription with IPN

I am trying to learn how I can add PayPal Subscription to my existing PHP app using IPN and looking for a good article that explains the ins-and-outs. In my app, users can register for a free account and then they can select a membership type and…
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PayPal Billing Plan meaning of frequency, frequency_interval and cycles

It's not clear enough how these three parameters work for billing plan: frequency frequency_interval cycles I assume that it works in following way: (A) frequency=MONTH + frequency_interval=2 + cycles=3 + amount={10 USD} -> subscriber will be…
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PayPal Webhooks not working on Recurring payments

I have implemented recurring payments using PayPal Rest API. I have subscribed to some events of webhooks. When the subscription is created, I got a notification from paypal. But when the recurring payment created I have not get any notification,…
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PayPal recurring payment profile initial payment delayed

We are creating billing agreements for customers to access our online service. We are using the REST api to create the agreement like this: Initial payment of $10, 1 month trial period ($0), Monthly $10 fee starting after trial We expect that the…
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Simulate IPN for recurring_payment_skipped from developer.sandbox.com

I need to simulate IPN when a recurring payment fails. My application can then create create pending invoices and send it to the customers. I searched and found that I would need to setup IPN that will handle below…
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PayPal recurring payments: How to show transaction details in checkout page

I have setup recurring payments in Paypal for my website using REST API. For one time payment, I know how to display transaction details by providing values for item_list (as in https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/). However I don't know what…
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paypal subscription with recurring trial period

With paypal pdt subscription, what I want to achieve is this: I want users to subscribe on discounted rate for 12 months and later regular rate will start. Is it possible to charge $10 every month for 12 months and after 12 months $15 every month?…
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paypal - 'subscription profiles not supported'

I'm using website payments standard to create recurring payments for subscriptions. I need to find out when the next billing date is, so it looks like I can use GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails nvp api with the recurring payment profile id. But…
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PHP Paypal Class

Could anybody recommend a up-to-date class (or payment system) for handling paypal recurring payments with PHP? Thank you! UPDATE: I ended up using the PaypalNVP class by Peter Reisinger. Unfortunately, that was a very long time ago and I can't…
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Paypal HTML integration problems (sales tax not showing for recurring payment)

I am using the Paypal standard (HTML 'API') to integrate Paypal to my website. I have managed to display 'subscribe' buttons for recurring payments, using HTML variables as specified in the Paypal documentation. However, there is one serious "show…
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Implementing a free trial period with PayPal

I am trying to implement a recurring subscription service on a website using PayPal however I would like to offer a free trial period before the user is billed and the subscription is started. Is this possible using PayPal's API? I have very little…
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Paypal recurring payments IPN confirmation

I have encountered a problem with Paypal recurring payments. CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile() returns ID of created profile (ProfileID). At the same time, I receive the following confirmation on IPN url: payment_cycle - Daily txn_type -…
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