Paypal recurring payments

Question

I have a product which have one time installation cost & then onwards it will deduct as per customer's use from his account. I completed PayPal work for one time installation cost, which is fixed. But i have problem of deducting onward months which our site will calculate & deduct from PayPal site.Once customer gave his credit card & other info, from other month it will not required to collect this info. I want without payer's login deduct money from his account.

Is this possible? How?

Answer 1

Last time I looked (about a year ago) it did not seem to be possible. I chose to use Click & Buy instead, they have a richer set of features with regards to recurring payments.

Answer 2

This is now possible using the new API that paypal has developed at x.com. You can authorize a certain amount at first and then use that authorization to get payments from users as they use your website

http://x.com

Answer 3

I'm not sure how you would perform it with Paypal specifically, but it should be possible. The terminology you are looking for is 'recurring payment'. There are potential complications, such as issues with the card reaching its expiry date, or being lost and reissued (ie card number changing) - but most payment processors can deal with these issues.

Answer 4

Typically, a recurring payment through PayPal is handled with PayPal Subscriptions and Recurring Payments, which takes care of automatically billing your customers on a periodic basis without requiring any action from the customer.

However, the only way to modify the price of a recurring payment after it has already started is to create a "modify button", which requires customer interaction and would not suit your scenario very well (see this thread ). You might also want to ask your question in the Paypal Developer Community forums.

Good luck!

Answer 5

How about using Billing Agreement ( Pay List in your PayPal profile) like what iTunes and woot.com uses. I don't know too much about it from a merchant perspective but as a customer I know that once I authorize Apple/Woot, they can charge my PayPal account without me personally interacting with PayPal. And I can cancel the agreement at any time.