Sell subscription

[guestuser]

I want people to purchase a subscription to my cartoons and then be able to go in and download the latest weekly cartoon every week. If thier subscription runs out, then they would have to go to my site again and purchase the subscription again before they can begin downloading cartoons again. I hope this helps. I appreciate your responses.

[e_junkieexpert]

E-junkie is good solution for selling thing which require one time purchase. Say if you were selling a one time $15 pass which will let a buyer access your site for next 6 weeks and download anything you upload, in that case E-junkie can handle the sale and tie up with a

membership system on your end to add the buyer to your system's access list. However, you will need a system with which we will integrate.



Anyway, in you case however, it will be much better for you to use "recurring" payments.



I will suggest using http://www.amember.com/ for your requirements.

[orange_roughy]

I also want to offer software download that requires annual subscription to continue working. Do you still recommend amember.com? Your post is from January, almost a year ago, so I thought maybe e-junkie might offer this by now? If not, do you recommend anyone else besides amember.com?



thank you, I hope to use e-junkie instead! Love the service.

[orange_roughy]

Looking at the amember.com demo, digital download with subscription doesn't appear to be supported--even though they say it is. Looks like it is geared towards websites with subscription content, not shareware software.

[E-junkie_Chef]

With subscriptions, people usually sell memberships (in case of digital items) and for that they need to have a membership system in place and we'll need to send subscription start, cancel and end-of-term notification to that system. However, you can do that by using PayPal directly. So it does not make sense for us to offer a service in which we are not playing any role.



Unless we host the core membership system which deals with authenticating and granting access to whatever to the buyer (which we don't really plan to), we really have no business dealing with subscriptions.



Sorry

[michellevan]

Is this still true? I was hoping to have a subscription so I can use the affiliate feature on ejunkie

[E-junkie_Ninja]

Yes it is, we have no way to send an order to checkout that would initiate auto-recurring payments, and even if we could, our system has no useful way of handling subsequent payments after the buyer's initial checkout anyway.



You may wish to investigate PayPal's Recurring Payments solution, which is what we actually use to manage subscription payments from sellers for the use of our own services. That sets up an automatic payment schedule in the payer's own PayPal account, instructing PayPal to send us the same amount every month, so we just passively receive payments and IPNs to keep each seller's account active for another month.

[michellevan]

yes I'm using that, but then I have to go find another affiliate program. unless I can use ejunkie somehow to integrate with the paypal reacurring?

[E-junkie_Ninja]

I'm sorry there is not a way to integrate our service with PayPal recurring payment system.

[trafficmystic]

is this also true if your handling subscriptions elsewhere.. ie via your web site?



So if i wanted to have a subscription setup but not handled on a monthly basis could tyhis be done through e-junkie?

[E-junkie_Guru]

E-junkie has no way to process orders for recurring payments. However, you could ask buyers to send you a one-off payment manually every week/month/quarter/etc. You may also want to look into using PayPal's own Recurring Payments solution, either as-is or combined with a purpose-built membership management system such as FrontDeskApp, and that would be completely unrelated to anything you might be doing with E-junkie.



While we do use PayPal's Recurring Payments to manage subscriptions for the use of our own services, that isn't integrated with our cart or sales-processing system at all. We just help our sellers set up a payment schedule in their own PayPal account, telling PayPal to send us the same amount every month, so each payment we passively receive just pushes back the seller's account expiration date by another month.