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4 years, 5 months ago  Eduan

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Posted: Monday Aug 6th, 2012 at 4:47 am #21208
David Easeman
Username: deaseman

Just found this post which gives a comparison of PayPal services, just a bit surprised this information is not in the Knowledge Base.

http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2634
Posted: Monday Aug 6th, 2012 at 4:30 am #21207
David Easeman
Username: deaseman

Hi Eduan

Thanks for this info. The s2member help for PayPal IPN integration does say under s2member->PayPal Options->PayPal IPN Integration ‘… s2Member handles cancellations, expirations, failed payments, terminations ( e.g. refunds & chargebacks ) for you automatically.’ However, either I misunderstood, or the s2member documentation is not clear, on the difference between express checkout (buy now) and subscriptions. The s2member help for the IPN integration does only mention handling of subscriptions.

I did find this under s2member->PayPal Buttons->PayPal Subscr Cancellation Buttons; ‘Since all recurring charges are associated with a PayPal® Subscription; and every PayPal® Subscription is associated with a PayPal® Account; your Members will always have a PayPal® Account of their own, which is tied to their Membership with you.’

I am still at the point of evaluating s2member, we need to be able to take card payments but our ‘subscribers’ may not have PayPal accounts. I have been told that our PayPal business account is the basic version and not the pro version and it is unlikely we will upgrade to the pro version.

I guess it’s probably me, but I am finding it somewhat frustrating trying to work out what is required to make use of the various options within s2member.
Posted: Friday Aug 3rd, 2012 at 3:55 am #21072
David Easeman
Username: deaseman

Hi Eduan

Thanks for that. As you suggested, I’ve used our live paypal account to test the IPN feed. However, I seem to have hit a small problem with this.

If I generate the paypal button from s2member as a subscriber, paypal will not accept credit card payments; it says you need a paypal account. I’ve set the ‘paypal account optional’ to ON, and the paypal help says ‘The PayPal Account Optional Feature is available for merchants using Express Checkout and for ‘Buy Now’, ‘Donations’ and ‘Shopping Cart’ buttons within Website Payments Standard’. This implies that the optional paypal account feature does not work with subscriber buttons.

So I generated the button as a ‘buy now’ button, and this will accept credit cards, it returns to my registration form and they get registered OK. However, I did a refund, to test the IPN feed to cancel the account. Paypal sent the IPN but s2member did not cancel the account. So does, IPN refunds only work with subscriber accounts? Is there something else I need to do?
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