Paypal charge via recrurring payment?

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In my online store i'm going to manage subscription for the products. Every product can be subscribed for some period of time, weekly, biweekly, monthly, semiannually. I'm going to use PayPal PayFlow Pro and PayPal Website Payments Pro gateways to recieve payments.

The issue is here how to manage getting recurring payments through this payment gateways? Any php code or smth else?

Here I'm including how this process works: 1. Customer adds reqiored products in his shopping cart. 2. In the cart there is a selectbox per every product for subscription.(options: just this one time, dayly, weekly...) 3. Customer checks out from the site paying with Credit/Debit card or PayPal account.

Question: How to charge automatically charge the fee for subscription in the selected period?

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I think the paypal do it automatically.. – Gabriel Santos
Ok, can you explain the wiferame of this process? – orif
Don't because I have not the manual or something.. I learned it some years ago.. – Gabriel Santos
Can you recommend any sites, blogs, links to put it on its way? – orif
See stackoverflow.com/questions/2398641/… – Gabriel Santos

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Why would you use Website Payments Pro and Payflow Pro? They're essentially the same (although Payflow Pro requires you to sign up for a merchant account, whereas Website Payments Pro doesn't).

What you need to do is:

  1. Sign up for PayPal Website Payments Pro (US, UK and Canada only).
  2. Once approved, sign up for Direct Recurring Payments
  3. Once approved, start integrating with PayPal via the DoDirectPayment API (one-off payments) and CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile (recurring payments).

DoDirectPayments lets you add in card details via the CREDITCARDTYPE, ACCT, EXPDATE and CVV2 parameters. This lets you charge buyers for one-off payments.
If you wish to set up recurring payments, you would use the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API instead.
This also lets you specify card details as detailed above, but in addition will let you specify terms for a recurring term on which the payment must recur.

For example; an example API call for CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile would look as follows: 

USER=Your API username
PWD=Your API password
SIGNATURE=Your API signature
VERSION=84.0
METHOD=CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile
DESC=Monthly recurring payment for MyStore Ltd
BILLINGPERIOD=Month
BILLINGFREQUENCY=12
TOTALBILLINGCYCLES=0
AMT=9.99
TRIALBILLINGPERIOD=Day
TRIALBILLINGFREQUENCY=7
TRIALTOTALBILLINGCYCLES=1
TRIALAMT=0.99
CURRENCYCODE=GBP
CREDITCARDTYPE=Visa
ACCT=4556699176680030
EXPDATE=122012
CVV2=000
[email protected]
STREET=12 Street
CITY=Beverly Hills
STATE=CA
ZIP=90210
COUNTRYCODE=US

This will set up a recurring payment profile which PayPal will bill for 9.99 GBP monthly, with a 7 day trial period of 0.99 GBP and run indefinitely. Once the API call is run, it will return a PROFILEID in response and the buyer will be charged 0.99 GBP. He will be charged 9.99 GBP after 7 days.

You must store this PROFILEID on your end, as this is the unique identifier which refers to this profile.

If you wish to test CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile, sign up at https://developer.paypal.com/ and create a preconfigured US, Website Payments Pro test account, and ask PayPal MTS over at https://www.paypal.com/mts to activate CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile for your test account (be sure to include the API username, but not any other API credentials).