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Hi there
After some head scratching on how to make shipping work (all sorted now) I have a question for the gurus here :) Can I use e-junkie to allow my customers to make a subscription payment for a service , much like how we all pay for e-junkie.
Thanks in advance
Kb

KB,

I asked Robin the same question. Apparently there isn't a way to use e-junkie for this. www.amember.com seems to have what we're both looking for, although it is not clear to me how to set up a secure portion of my website that would be available only to subscribers. Let me know if you figure this out.....

Thanks trackmeister...
although I do not want to clutter up my rapidweaver site with pieces of code from amember and merging e-junkie and so on .... the easiest solution is probably to grab a piece of Paypal code in their subscription setup..but it is not very flexible. Any comments from the e-j gurus :)
Thanks again
Kb

We can manually convert an "e-junkie paypal buy now button" to a subscription button on our end but that will still not work with our cart and we'll treat the first payment as "purchase" and ignore rest of the payments, payment failures, cancellation etc. .. not really what you want if you are running a member site.

Thanks , if I find a suitable workaround I will let you know :D

to E-JunkieChef
I would be very interested in such a feature. Is there a workaround to implement this now?

Here is my situation:
I have been using the PayPal Recurring subscription buttons for about a year now. They do the job but they do not alow me to offer package discounts, pay affiliates, discount codes, etc.. Also my customers have to subscribe to each feature of the membership seperately. It would be nice if they can select the features (in a shopping cart) and do a single subscription. I can then offer incentive discounts to add features. PayPal subscriptions do not allow any of these marketing techniques.

I would be very happy if e-Junkie could handle the shopping cart aspects of the initial purchase and simply setup the recurring transaction with PayPal. Affiliate commissions would be paid only on the initial purchace, but customers would benefit continually from whatever discounts or incentives they signed up with.

Please consider a limited form of support for subscription payments. If there is a workaround I can implement in the HTML code now, I would be very interested in it.

Thank you for a great product.

We appreciate the suggestion, but we have no way to handle orders involving recurring payments at the moment and, indeed, PayPal may not even provide any way of integrating those into an outside e-commerce system such as ours.

As far as we know, all solutions using PayPal Recurring Payments system are just using PayPal's own solutions for those as-is; you might want to hire a custom development shop to investigate the possibilities of using that system.

Even our own subscription plans for the use of our services just use PayPal's solution, but it's one thing for our own, tailor-made and dedicated account-management system to simply passively receive notification of payments so we can keep a seller's account with us active, vs. entirely another matter to build a system from scratch that could be flexible and usable enough to support the myriad of things a merchant might conceivably want to do with recurring payments -- that's frankly just a massive undertaking, and not likely to happen soon with us, if ever.

We can see if there might be any way to use our cart to take the initial order that would start a recurring-payments schedule, but there would be no way for our system to do anything at all for any subsequent auto-recurring payments.