PayPal 20% Rule Links Broken

The links on the panel “PayPal Subscr Modification Buttons” regarding the PayPal 20% rule appear to be broken. The first one throws a 404 error on X.com and the second doesn’t seem to address the 20% rule at all. Perhaps this rule, whatever it is, is now defunct?

Thanks for reporting that, Randy. I’ll forward it to Jason to fix them. :)

Thanks for the heads up on this. PayPal appears to be moving lots of things around right now. I’m not aware of this rule having been changed. It’s still in all of the most recent API docs.

The 20% rule still applies. It is still mentioned here in the latest docs. Although it is no longer mentioned specifically for PP Standard, it does impact both PayPal® Standard and PayPal® Express Checkout (in my sandbox testing).

However, it does NOT impact s2Member® Pro Forms because we workaround this issue by retiring the previous Recurring Billing Profile during an upgrade/downgrade; and simply replace it with a new one. Therefore, this is not of concern w/ s2Member® Pro; only with PayPal Standard Buttons where an existing customer is upgrading/downgrading through a Subscription Modification Button.

We will have the inline docs for s2Member® updated in the next maintenance release. Thank you!

UPDATE: I received word back from PayPal about this. It does NOT apply any longer to PP Standard Buttons. Removing mention of this limitation in the inline documentation. This will be updated in the next maintenance release. Thank you!