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Refers to PayPal Subscriptions and Recurring Payments. Supports automatically recurring subscriptions from websites, or other links.

Subscriptions and Recurring Payments is a way for systems 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 websites.

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Subscriptions with Paypal IPN

I am adding subscriptions to a site using Paypal IPN which works very well, I can successfully create a new subscription and verify it. The subscription has a two week free trial. The guide was unfortunately a little vague on subscription…
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Testing Paypal subscription IPN

I'd like to test paypal subscription IPNs, both the ones received when a subscription is created, and the ones sent later with the next payment (such as monthly if the subscription is $x per month). However I'd prefer not to wait a month or a day to…
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How do I test Paypal subscription buttons with sandbox?

after 5 hours of research and reading outdated paypal documentation I finally give up! I need to test a simple paypal subscription button with the paypal sandbox. Button Code:
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Can you cancel a PayPal automatic payment via API? (Subscription created via Hosted button)

Can you cancel a PayPal automatic payment via API? It's a "Subscription" created via Hosted button. I have the "Automatic payment number" and the "Transaction ID".
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Changing the Amount of a PayPal Subscription

We are using PayPal subscriptions to automatically make ongoing monthly donations. The user initially creates a subscription with some pre-determined monthly donation amount (e.g., say $50/month). This creates a recurring subscription which we…
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PayPal button sending custom variable through IPN

I have tried to go through the jungle (really, PayPal, why don't you weed it out...) for a few days now to find the solution to my pretty simple problem. I have a website with membership subscriptions. The customer signs up with their email and…
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Android : Paypal Preapproval API operation (Example needed)

Is there any working example for PayPal preapproval API operation. I went through some tutorials,. But they are specifying some preapproval key for the transaction. How will we get this key?
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PayPal REST API and recurring payments

I'm looking at the new PayPal REST API and the examples. Does it work as of today to make recurring payments? (a.k.a: subscriptions with recurring payments with billing cycle and the number of times the recurring payment is made.) I cannot find this…
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Paypal, Recurring Billing, and ActiveMerchant

I'm trying to research how to add a subscription based pay model on an existing site of mine, but am running into a lot of conflicting information and caused me to be a bit lost. All I need is a very simple way to set up recurring billing (per…
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When to use IPN and when WebHooks in PayPal as a notification mechanism?

I'm looking at the documentation of WebHooks and IPN and I wonder: which one should I use my store where I don't need really real-time notifications? Even 1 hour delay will do. How do WebHooks and IPN differ for this matter?
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How do you cancel a PayPal subscription through their api?

On this page: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_ECRecurringPayments it says that it's possible to cancel a PayPal subscription using their API. Knowing the SubscriptionId can anyone give me some…
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Where are "My Selling Tools", "Website preferences", and "Instant payment notifications" in new Paypal website?

I'm pretty confused with new PayPal. I have sandbox accounts, but now I needed to create production (business) account for actual real payment. But all look and feel are different now and all the links are different. Seems Paypal changed their web.…
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Paypal rest API billing agreements webhooks

So I am integrating the Paypal Rest API with my django site so I can introduce subscription based billing, so far everything is going great. I have a interface for Billing plans, Billing agreements, Transaction history and everything to create and…
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When does Paypal send subscr_eot?

can we rely solely on subscr_eot to activate/deactivate an account? Assume we have the following scenario: On 9/16, a customer pays using Paypal for a monthly recurring service. With 24 hours, Paypal sends "subscr_signup" and followed by…
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paypal express checkout recurring profile start date

We are using paypal recurring payments programmatically using the Express Checkout APIs. Based on the docs, it seems that the profile can take up to 24 hours to activate. I'm trying to figure out how to setup the billing start date such that it…
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