Thread: Paypal Subscription

I am planning on making a site where members need to pay a monthly fee to be a part of. But I can't figure out how to let paypal tell me if they are paying it each month and that they need not cancel it. So, if they don't pay or cancel their subscription there account would be locked automatically. Because it would drive me crazy each month to go throw my billing info and make sure that people are still paying.

Does anyone have any ideas for me? I was planning on not using a script and just writing the full thing myself.

I think you should use paypal product "Recurring Payments for Website Payments Pro"

Here is link for documentation

Hope this helps

But the person wants that once payment is release than no one can cancel it and in paypal any one can cancel the payment so he want some other option for that.

Originally Posted by rahulbagal

I think you should use paypal product "Recurring Payments for Website Payments Pro"

Here is link for documentation

Hope this helps

Thanks a bunch!

if your going to write your own script, use. Paypal's IPN, response systems. Here's an example code of it: (Every account, above Standard, can access this system, some standards can).

PHP Code:

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
        $value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
        $req .= "&$key=$value";
}

$header .= "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";

$fp = fsockopen ('www.paypal.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

if ($_POST[txn_type] == subscr_cancel) { RUNYOURCODEHEREIFTHEYUNSUBSCRIVE }

// you have the following variables, in subscriptions (dealing with payment)

if ($_POST[txn_type] == subscr_signup)
if ($_POST[txn_type] == subscr_eot)
if ($_POST[txn_type] == subscr_failed)
if ($_POST[txn_type] == subscr_cancel)
if ($_POST[txn_type] == subscr_payment) 


o, yeah. and to make this work with paypal, depending on your settings,
add the following to a subscription buttons code:

<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://www.yoursite.com/ipn.php" />

It's very detailed, the paypal documentation on this. So,
it's on you to get it done, if your not looking to hire
someone or buy a script.