How to switch between paypal recurring payments and subscriptions?

Question

I am migrating paypal subscriptions from old working paypal account to a newly created one. We have a standard subscription form on a site similar to described here .

The problem is once I switched subscriptions to a new account (by changing

<input type="hidden" name="business" value="me@mybusiness.com">

to a new email on the form) subscriptions started to behave differently.

Once I subscribe I get a completely different email saying:

You set up an automatic payment profile to Company Inc.

Instead of:

Subscription Receipt for Product

My paypal payment history also says Recurring Payment To instead of Subscription Creation To , and subsciption ID is now in I-XXXXXXXX format instead of S-XXXXXXXXX .

What do I need to setup on the new paypal account to make it produce regular subscriptions again?

Answer 1

That's no longer possible. As of October 2010 (I think ) PayPal will no longer create S-type subscriptions, and new accounts are creating 'recurring payments' (starting with I-) by default, regardless of whether or not they have been created via the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API call, or via the HTML form.