Paypal Subscription with Initial Payment

Question

I am working with a customer to setup a paypal button to allow them to charge a customer an initial setup fee and then a monthly subscription. I am rather new to this, so I am looking for the best way to do this as I didn't see anything that seemed to stick out in the documentation on developer.paypal.com for this scenario. Do I use the restful api or classic api? The site is built in .Net, so if you also have any information to this as well, that would be appreciated. Now I am not looking for code, but just a nudge in the right direction so I can find out all the information I need to do this right. Thanks.

Wade

Answer 1

You can use a Payments Standard Subscription button for this. They're pretty simple to create and add to the site. They can be created through a PayPal account or from your own custom HTML form.

The PayPal button code is just a an HTML form so you shouldn't have a problem adding it to your customer's site. Here are some details on Subscription buttons: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/subscribe_buttons/

I wouldn't recommend using an API but if you want to learn more about them you can look around on Developer.PayPal.com