Recurring Payments

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I know that e-junkie currently doesn't offer recurring payments, but I'm wondering if this functionality is on your roadmap.



This is the one feature that would bring e-junkie into parity with other solutions (i.e. 1shoppingcart)--and you all obviously understand the benefits of recurring billing vs. "pay once for a full year" since you offer recurring yourself.



Thanks.

[divamover]

Hey --

I have a history with 1ShoppingCart, and yes, they do everything. I found them infuriating to work with, AND they are much, much more expensive. I've been delighted with e-junkie.



I, too, needed a lump sum payment option as well as a monthly recurring subscription for one of my new projects, and hit this snag. HOWEVER: I think I've figured out a solution! It might not be pretty, but it works!



Download a web button image you would like to use. There are lots of free sources for these, search Google. This is the image you will use for the buttons.



For the "lump sum" payment option that uses e-junkie, just use the part of the e-junkie button code between the "" as your link. Example: https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&i=594991&cl=47053&ejc=2 You don't need the rest of the code.

Link this code to your button image. So far, so good.



Go to the e-junkie admin page and select "Send free download link." Select the product for which you want to have the recurring payment, and enter your email address. E-junkie will email you the URL for the product links page for that product.



Now, go to your PayPal account, Merchant Services, to design a button. I used the same button image as above for a consistent look. Set up the subscription/recurring payment.

If you click on "Customize Your Button," scroll down to the bottom where it says; "Step 3: "Customize advanced Features."



Check the box that says, "Take customers to a specific page (URL) after successful checkout." In the blank, enter the URL that e-junkie emailed to you for the product link.



Click on "Create Button." Instead of using their HTML code for their button graphic image, click the tab that says "Email." Copy that link, and attach it to your button image on your site for the recurring payments option.



I am thrilled with this solution, it's does exactly what I needed! I hope it will help you, too. AND, most of all, I hope e-junkie will share this info with their customers. It's always nice to be able to say, "YES -- we have a solution!" rather than, "Nope, there's nothing we can do."



Let me know how it goes for you!

[E-junkie_Guru]

Sorry to burst your bubble here, but there's a problem with the procedure you described:



When you "Send free download link", the link you receive is just like any other thank-you/download page link we would email to a buyer after checkout -- that URL is unique to that recipient, and it leads to a thank-you page where the download link(s) are only valid for the number of attempts (max. 9 possible) and hours that you defined in the product's settings. That's how we enforce your link expiration -- every buyer gets their own, unique download URL, and that URL becomes invalid for everyone once the max attempts to hit that URL have been made by anyone at all. If the buyer tries to share their URL with others, it can only be valid for so long before it's useless to everyone.



We have no fixed URL for a page where you could send all buyers to download, and if there were, buyers could share their URL with others, post it far and wide for anyone to use, so you'd wind up getting ripped off as people just visit that URL directly to download your product files without paying first.



We are not a payment processor, so we have no way of charging anybody anything at all, let alone on a recurring basis, and we don't even receive any actual credit card or bank account numbers, which are handled by the actual payment processor (PayPal et al.). This discussion goes into more detail about why we cannot support orders for recurring payments, even when the payment part would be handled completely outside of our system:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/180