I’m in the process of building my first standard cart with carthrob and I can’t rave enough about it. It’s brilliant. Thanks so much!

I have several more projects in the pipline that could really use the recurring payments feature I’ve read in other posts about. So I’m thowing up my hand to second (third? fourth?) the request for it. I’m crossing my fingers that it will be complete within a reasonable time period (end of summer? pretty please?)

I have these 3 upcoming sites to work on:

Site 1:
Annual membership dues. Recur billing every 365 days from original purchase. Send out reminder emails beforehand.

Site 2:
Private School. Pay tuition online - monthly, quarterly, full year.

Site 3:
Charity, sponsor a child in need: donate full year amount, or split that amount and bill quarterly, or monthly.

That’s 3 more licenses, waiting to be purchased. Does that help motivate a faster release? j/k

Thanks for the great module. I really appreciate it.

We’re currently almost done with an implementation of recurrent billing using Authorize.net’s Automated Recurrent Billing system. It’s a good first step.

Working with non-profits and charities is tough. Every penny raised is needed, so we’ve been using Paypal Standard because there’s no set-up fee or monthly fee. I know that if the volume was there, then the 2.9% + $.30 per transaction would get more costly than to go with another gateway that offers lower per transaction, but a monthly fee. A high volume would be a nice problem to have. But in the meantime, Paypal Standard is the cheapest and easiest for my clients to use.

One particular merchant I found had a pretty good rate for a non profit (2.09% + $.25 + $10 merchant monthly + $10 Authorize.net (no setup fees)). But then this client of mine would have to do more than $2500 a month for that to be cheaper than Paypal. Yes the direct deposit to a bank account instead of a 2 day waiting period and better reporting for Quickbooks is nice, but again - pennies are more important.

Anyway, I digress.

Glad to hear an Authorize.net option is in the works, but I’m stuck on Paypal for the time being (If anyone has a reliable and cheap alternative to Paypal, I’m open to suggestions).

Thanks again for all your hard work. It is a great product.

Hi ender. This is something you should probably call me about to discuss. I’ll PM you our office phone number. We might have something that will work for you.

Any updates on the Recurring Billing option?

Contact me directly Jason to discuss if you’re looking for recurring billiing.

Is there an update on the recurring billing feature?

We have a recurring billing (different than subscriptions mind you..) systm that works with Authorize.net and Paypal Pro only currently in beta.

Chris, what are the differences between your beta recurring billing with authorize and subscriptions?

Subscriptions imply membership, and membership related benefits in the context of the website.

We currently have a recurrent billing system… which is great for stuff like charging hosting or maintenance payments, or billing people for the book of the month club.

Let me try to undrestand that with asking a simple scenario.

Can I have a user sign up and have CT create a member (I know that part works, as I have done that before) and then this member gets billed every month? And I can target content on the website with ‘if logged in group =’ in order to show particular content to paying members

and then this member gets billed every month?

yes.

And I can target content on the website with ‘if logged in group =’ i

Yes.

However, if said user cancels the subscription, their member group would not be converted automatically to a different group. That’s the difference. We’ll eventually get our subscriptions system built… but we’re consumed with CT 2.1 right now.

ok, I understand. So if member cancels, I’d have to manually go in and change group. gottcha

Chris:

Here’s what I think you’re saying:

1. Your beta recurring payment thing works with both Authorize.net OR Paypal Pro.

2. Use CT to create a member during checkout, which allows specifying member group. Then use standard EE tags to show content.

3. Beta recurring payment thing will charge user’s credit card at specified interval, but if user cancels, member group not switched.

Right?

Question 1: Is there some “unsubscribe” notification?

Question 2: Can coupon codes be used to affect recurring price?

Question 3: Can I please be a beta tester? Pretty please?

1. yes.

2. yes.

3. yes.

Just to preface. The beta recurring billing system was initially built for a client, that needed to manage “vault” data, as well as to initiate recurrent billing for medical related stuff. The maintenance of which is done completely offline. We plan to use this system to build a more full-fledged system to handle member subscriptions, but it’s really not a good fit for that now.

Question 1: Is there some “unsubscribe” notification?

No. In a full subscription billing system there would be something like this, but this isn’t finished.

Question 2: Can coupon codes be used to affect recurring price?

They can be. The system to make a recurrent bill is basically the same as the checkout. Whatever the total is… that’s what becomes the recurrent bill. Currently the recurrent billing system doesn’t process products and recurrent bills together in the same checkout… if you tried to do that… whatever the charge for the products was, that would become the monthly bill.

Question 3: Can I please be a beta tester? Pretty please?

I suppose… but have you considered Membrrr? It’s an actual subscription billing system.

Chris, can the recurring billing with Authorize.net have an end date set?

e.g. charging customer for 3 months only