About: t2media

Same here, hopefully PayPal is quick. I’m 2 weeks out from my 1st monthly recurring to kick in and we have a few dozen members now. Thanks

OK, I have more info. I had to go live because I had an event that needed to be covered, so I currently have my logging disabled.

Now the below is info from going back and forth with PayPal:

In looking deeper into my Paypal manager reports, it is showing all my members as recurring, though it is too early before the 2nd payment has been pulled from any account. Now I did do some tests at the 1 week recurring period and neither of these recurred after 1 week. In checking the PP mgr reports it shows that both of these were trying to recur but they were both declined. One of these I did with a PayPal account and the other was an Amex card.
Result code is coming up: 7

I also tried this morning to force a payment to both of these and they came up:
Field format error: 10411-This Express Checkout session has expired. Token value is no longer valid..

I looked at a lot of the profile IDs I have so far and they all look correct, that they will recur. It seems the info is getting into PayPal Manager correctly, but that there is sort of error to complete the recurring payment. Maybe things are coming from my site via S2Member correctly and there is something not getting logged into the accounts?

Paypal came back with:
“It is good that they are trying to recur, this means the profile was created properly. But the Result Code 7 you are seeing is happening when there is a formatting error. The other code you are seeing is when you try to use a token after it expires. Tokens expire after 3 hours. When you are using recurring billing, you should be getting back a BAID (billing agreement ID). You can then use that to run the transactions. I did not see any BAID fields in the log you sent over.” (I sent PayPal the Payflow API logs from before the site went live)

“Compare the code on this page to see what I am referring to. https://www.x.com/node/2761 Check your requests to make sure you are following the correct example. It looks like the initial payment is being done, but the wrong info is being referenced when it comes time to recur.”

My question back to S2… is what doing I do now, seems something is not getting to PayPal.
Also, I just ran 2 more tests today using a PayPal acct & this is the receipt the end-user would have gotten:

Description Unit price Qty Amount

$5.99 USD 1 $5.99 USD

No description….

Like I said, I am live now and have a little time to get this sorted out, but I am due to start recurring with my members in 3 weeks.

Any further help is much appreciated.

This is for the tests I’ve been running with no trial, $2.00, recurring weekly

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form level="4" ccaps="" desc="$2.00 USD / Weekly (recurring charge, for ongoing access)" ps="thecushion" lc="" cc="USD" dg="0" ns="1" custom="thecushion.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="2.00" rp="1" rt="W" rr="1" rrt="" rra="2" accept="paypal,visa,mastercard,amex,discover,maestro,solo" accept_via_paypal="paypal" coupon="" accept_coupons="0" default_country_code="" captcha="0" /]

The opposite. This option will have Users see their first payment as part of the subscription. However, since you’re running a free trial it doesn’t work the same way. Your Users aren’t actually signed up for the subscription until the trial ends.

In reading thru the log files, I am pretty confident these payments will recur on the start date given. But, I did just run a test payment, with no trial, and it still showed up as a regular payment and not part of a subscription. Did the test for a 1 week subscription and the log file shows start date a April 20th, so I’m still taking it that the 1st payment is not part of a recurring subscription until that 1st time period runs out and the 2nd payment is processed (the one a week later on April 20th).

Any help with this?

Is S2 set up to do the 1st payment as basically a single purchase and then it sets up the recurring to start at the next period of the term? I ask because if you look at one of my log files below, it shows the “Start Date” as May 13, but the original date the buyer paid for membership is April 12th. So I’m thinking the 1st payment is processed as just that, a regular payment, and then the recurring payment billing will start at the date the log show (next month or next year, based of what type of subscription the person purchased).

Just trying to confirm this is how it works as I am concerned we launch and we get a bunch of members who get billed initially, but then the recurring doesn’t kick in.

Here is some more info pulled from my paypal payflow api log. This is from a monthly subscription purchase that has a 30 day trial at $5.99, then recurring each month after at $9.99

array (
‘RESULT’ => ‘0’,
‘RPREF’ => ‘RLC58E8A1***’,
‘PROFILEID’ => ‘RP0000000***’,
‘STATUS’ => ‘ACTIVE’,
‘PROFILENAME’ => ‘1368420762:30 D:1 M~*****~1’,
‘START’ => ‘05132013’,
‘TERM’ => ‘0’,
‘NEXTPAYMENT’ => ‘05132013’,
‘PAYPERIOD’ => ‘MONT’,
‘FREQUENCY’ => ‘1’,
‘TENDER’ => ‘P’,
‘AMT’ => ‘9.99’,
‘ACCT’ => ”,
‘ABA’ => ”,
‘ACCTTYPE’ => ”,
‘AGGREGATEAMT’ => ‘0.00’,
‘AGGREGATEOPTIONALAMT’ => ‘5.99’,
‘MAXFAILPAYMENTS’ => ‘2’,
‘NUMFAILPAYMENTS’ => ‘0’,
‘RETRYNUMDAYS’ => ‘2’,
‘EMAIL’ => ‘*****’,
‘NAME’ => ‘*****’,
‘LASTNAME’ => ‘*****’,
‘CURRENCY’ => ‘USD’,
)

Is term correct at: ‘TERM’ => ‘0’, ?

Thanks for any input.

Different IP’s. I can even go to the Single-Page Link Generator ( for Customer Service ) under Single Page “Buy Now” Access and generate a link and then send that to 10 people in 10 different places and they will all get to view that page with the same link. Works the same way when someone buys it and then gets redirected to the restricted page. That user can then just copy the generated url string and send it to other people.

No, I can take any link with that string and open it on another computer or email to someone and they can open it. Hopefully I can find a solution to this loophole as I have one person sending a PPV link out to others and we have people watching our video for free.