*SOLVED* PayPal "Recurring Donation" *SOLVED*

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*SOLVED* PayPal "Recurring Donation" *SOLVED*

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Hello,

I've got a website where I utilize the standard "PayPal Donate" system offered by PayPal, in WB8:

http://wildroserescueranch.com/donate.html

And they've recently asked me to look into a way to set up "Recurring Donations". Is this something that can be done with the PayPal tools on WB8-created site-level? If so, how could I do this?
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Re: PayPal "Recurring Donation"

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I'm seeing the WB8 "Help" information, which states,

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"Subscription Button

When you use PayPal Subscriptions and Recurring Payments, your customers can purchase automatically recurring subscriptions from your website.

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments is a low-cost way for you 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 your website in a few easy steps. Subscriptions and Recurring Payments are only available for Business or Premier accounts.

 

General

PayPal Account: Email address for your PayPal account.

Button Image: Specifies the button image that will be displayed on your webpage. Select 'Custom Image' if you want to specify a custom image.

Enable SandBox: PayPal provides a Sandbox to allow you to test your site without actually making payments. Uncheck this option when publishing the live version of your site!
More information about the PayPal's sandbox: https://developer.paypal.com/

Target Window: Specifies the browser window where PayPal's website will be opened. Default: PayPal. Make this field empty if you want the PayPal website to open in the current window.

 

Details

Subscription name: Enter the name of the subscription you wish to sell in the Subscription name field. If you do not enter anything in this field, your customers can complete it. 

Reference Item Number: If you have an ID or tracking number for your item, enter it in the Reference Item Number field. This field will not be displayed to your customers at the time of payment, but they will see it in their transaction details on the PayPal website.

Currency: Choose the currency in which you would like this payment to be denominated. This field will default to the currency of your primary balance.

Bill the subscriber for: Enter your regular subscription rate.

Length of each billing cycle: Specifies the regular billing cycle.

Would you like to stop the recurring payments after a certain number?

Enable this option if you would like to end your customers’ subscriptions after a certain number of payments at your regular rates. This means that once a customer has made the specified number of payments at your regular rate, his subscription will be completed. If you disable this option your customers’ subscriptions will continue unless it is cancelled manually or by payment failure.

Trial periods (optional)

You may enter a trial period and rates for your subscription. To create a free trial

period, enter an amount of 0. Trial periods can be entered as a number of days, weeks, months, or years.

Reattempt on Failure

Enable this option if you would like PayPal to automatically reattempt failed

payments. Payments will be reattempted three days after the failure date. After a second failure, PayPal will try once more five days later. A third failure will lead to an automatic cancellation of the subscription.

Payments made with bank accounts are automatically reattempted once, three days after PayPal notifies the user that the payment failed. If you select No, failed payments will result in the automatic cancellation of the subscription.

Require shipping information: Specifies whether to prompt the customer for a shipping address."
But is there a way that lets the user choose how often the donation will occur, how much money they can give for each occurrence of a donation, etc.?
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Re: PayPal "Recurring Donation"

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Please note that these are all standard PayPal features. All we did was create an easier way to add these feature to your website. We cannot chnage the way these features work.
I don't think PayPal supports what you want to do.
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Makes sense, support, thank you. And I truly *am* grateful y'all have created this type of thing for us to make it easier.
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Ok, I am working off of the "Help", and it is defining the various parameters in the "Subscription" button for me, in PayPal. But what does the "Length of each billing cycle" parameter mean, under the "Detail" tab of the Subscription Button Properties? The Help says that is means,

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Specifies the regular billing cycle.
But I don't really understand what it means. It sounds like it would mean, "How many times do you want them to be billed before it stops?" But the next parameter, "Would you like to stop the recurring payments after a certain number?" Seems to cover that. So I'm having trouble understanding what "Length of each billing cycle" parameter means. Since I am setting my schedules to be on a "Monthly" basis, is this question asking what day of the month the money will be pulled, or what..?
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Please note that these are all standard PayPal options. We did not make these up. They all came from the PayPal documentation.

In "Length of each billing cycle" you can specific whether the subscriber should be billed each day, each week, each month or every 10 day etc.
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