Setting up Recurring Billing - Newbie questions

Sounds interesting, but a Google search> site:shift4.com i4Go yields no results.

Billing Orchard hooks into authorize.net's ARB (recurring billing) nicely. It has an easy API and also something called Checkout Pages which you can use so you don't have to worry about PCI compliance. I use it with a merchant account from PayQuake.com.

- BillingOrchard.com

HTH

Hi S,

I was going to add my plug (via very subtle means ;) but you did it for me. It's been a while, we have a very new complimentary service called i4Go. It completely hides the card information from your servers without limiting your payment options -- book & ship, recurring payments, two-click check-outs (Heaven forbid I say "one-click").

I've set up a site like this, where all of the rebilling takes place behind the scenes. It's a dating web site that uses a custom tag from http://www.shift4.com/. Each morning, using CF Scheduler, the batch process runs and either approves and cancels members based on credit card approval. One of their developers took thei C.F. custom tag and turned it into a batch process for me. Shift 4 has thier own payment gateway system, which I'm tapping into. After the tag has run and the members are either approved or denied (based on their credit card), I wrote queries to update their status based on the results returned from Shift 4.

I, too, am looking for a way to set up reoccurring billing through PayPal
while keeping my users on my site.

PayPal has not been able to point me in the right direction, but constantly
refers me to the Web Payments Standard to use their system...which always
wants my users to go to their site to 'signup'. They won't tell me if the
subscription service is available with their PRO version.

I would like to set up 5 different reoccurring billing options. but keep the
sign up on my site and just send the important cc / billing information to
their processor.

I too would like to know if ANY information is out there is this can be
done. I am at the point where I am just going to set it up manually....

PayPal has a Recurring/Subscription model that can be fairly easily tied
into a website. As well as looking at their Subscription option you
will want to understand their IPN (Instant Payment Notification) for
passing your data back and forth with PayPal

WickedPenguin wrote:
> I'm working on a web site which will require a paid subscription for access to
> certain services. It's been a long time since I've worked on any kind of
> ecommerce, and I've never done anything that required recurring billing.
>
> What I'm looking for is the simplest solution to getting recurring billing
> going. I've done some searching around here for related keywords, but haven't
> gotten the answers I need. So, here are my questions:
>
> * Are there any solutions where I can just send the customer on to a third
> party site that processes the CC, stores the info, and then deposits the funds
> in my corporate account?)
> * If I have to do this internally, what do I absolutely need in order to start
> this up? (in other words: Merchant account? Secure server certificate?)
> * What kind of fees are typically associated with both setup and transaction
> (just ballpark figures)?
>
> Any fingers-pointing-in-the-right-direction are appreciated!
>