Paypal subscription expires after initial payment

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I am trying to integrate a subscription button into one of my pages, but currently getting stuck understanding how the button works.

According to https://www.paypal.com/en/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_pdn_subscr_techview_outside, I have to set the following to make a donation per month

a3  5.00
p3  1
t3  M

Explanation as follows:

a3 - amount to billed each recurrence
p3 - number of time periods between each recurrence
t3 - time period (D=days, W=weeks, M=months, Y=years)

With the options stated above, a subscription is started, a payment made and shortly after the subscription expires. Paypal's detail page for the subscription says, max cycles is 1.

My assumption is that p3 sets the recurrence to 1. The payment is made, and the subscription expires as max cycles has been hit.

Another theory is, that this auto expire behavior is caused because I verified my paypal account earlier the day (~3h ago). Maybe it needs some time to propagate my new status?

I am wondering why this behavior is caused, and how I am able to set the cycles to a higher amount (permanent?).

My button code is available here http://pastebin.com/vSxVq4tf

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2 Answers

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All right, it looks like this is a bug (or missing feature?) in the paypal javascriptbuttons SDK. This behavior is caused since the src parameter is missing, that doesn't appear to be documented anywhere.

After adding src=1 to the button, subscription change from for one month to each month. I submitted a pull request and currently wait for approval by the paypal folks.

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Here's a basic PayPal Standard open source subscription button setup for $10.00 once a month and never ending.

a3 = amount
p3 = number of times to bill ie 1= once a month
t3 = (when the billing takes place) ie Monthly

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick-subscriptions">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Testing Subscription">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="src" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="a3" value="10.00">
<input type="hidden" name="p3" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="t3" value="M">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-SubscriptionsBF:btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif:NonHosted">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_subscribeCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>