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I wanted to know if there was ever a chance that E-Junkie will support a recurring payment option. I would like to create this option for purchase to my users, and it's a huge inconvenience to me that I can't.

Is there any way?

The main issue is that there's nothing at our end set up to fulfill recurring payments, no way for sellers to manage subscribers/memberships, no way to schedule different mailings or downloads or shipments on a periodic basis, and really nothing we have at present could add anything of value to what PayPal's Recurring Payments solution can already do as-is, either by itself or combined with existing solutions to manage email newsletters (e.g. Aweber) or memberships (e.g. FrontDeskApp).

Presumably sellers don't want to keep issuing every buyer the exact, same download and/or thank-you email on a periodic basis; just letting buyers set up a recurring payment plan is one thing, but those buyers would expect to get something for their periodic payments, and we just have no way to manage doing anything for those repeat payments. Sellers inquiring with us about recurring payments have described a pretty wide variety of completely unrelated things they want to do with recurring payments, so building a system to accommodate all of those possibilities would be a massive undertaking that would divert our Development resources away from other projects of benefit to all or most existing sellers using our system.

Thanks - appreciate the reply. Here's my situation, maybe that would shed some light. I currently sell WordPress themes, which are packaged with support. As of now, it's a one time fee - but we'd like to make it more of a recurring revenue/membership purchase. They wouldn't have any reason to be sent the download link more than the initial time. While I know that we can set this up with Paypal directly, our current affiliates would have no way to receive credit for any referrals to this particular package.

Make sense?

Understood, and that's one of the many possibilities we'd need to account for in all the programming we'd need to do to start supporting recurring payments. We can keep that in mind as a wishlist item, but quite frankly it's not likely to happen in the foreseeable future.