[Active Merchant] Recurring billing and PayPal express checkout

[Joshua Partogi]

Dear all,

I am still new with activemerchant. I have got a few questions about
how it works. How does activemerchant implement recurring billing?
Does it poll the gateway every month to charge the customer's credit
card? I want to use PayPal express checkout, because it is the
simplest I can get in my country here, but when I look at the
comparison matrix, the recurring billing is not implemented. Is this
something that the user can implement by themselves by using
scheduler?

Thank you very much in advance for your assistance.

Kind regards,
Joshua

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[Andrés Mejía]

I've never used recurring billing before, but I have used PayPal Express.

I don't think you could implement automatic recurring billing with PayPal Express, because it requires redirecting to the PayPal site where the payer approves the order and then gets redirected back to your site (In other words, it requires the payer to log into PayPal and you can't do that automatically without his consent).

On the other hand, you could use PaypalGateway to make an automatic payment but that would require storing the payer's credit card.

[Scott Windsor]

You actually don't have to redirect to Paypal to use recurring billing.  They have a SOAP API, and it's implemented with Active Merchant in rayvinly's fork of active merchant.

http://github.com/rayvinly/active_merchant/

http://github.com/rayvinly/active_merchant/blob/master/lib/active_merchant/billing/gateways/paypal_express_recurring.rb

I've used it before, and it works quite well.

- scott

2010/5/14 Andrés Mejía <and...@gmail.com>

[Joshua Partogi]

Thanks Scott,

I am going to try it out.

Kind regards,
Joshua

On May 15, 1:23 am, Scott Windsor <swind...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You actually don't have to redirect to Paypal to use recurring billing.
>  They have a SOAP API, and it's implemented with Active Merchant in
> rayvinly's fork of active merchant.
>

> http://github.com/rayvinly/active_merchant/http://github.com/rayvinly/active_merchant/blob/master/lib/active_mer...

>
> I've used it before, and it works quite well.
>
> - scott
>
> 2010/5/14 Andrés Mejía <and...@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> > I've never used recurring billing before, but I have used PayPal Express.
>
> > I don't think you could implement automatic recurring billing with PayPal
> > Express, because it requires redirecting to the PayPal site where the payer
> > approves the order and then gets redirected back to your site (In other
> > words, it requires the payer to log into PayPal and you can't do that
> > automatically without his consent).
>
> > On the other hand, you could use PaypalGateway to make an automatic payment
> > but that would require storing the payer's credit card.
>

> > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Joshua Partogi <joshua.part...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> Dear all,
>
> >> I am still new with activemerchant. I have got a few questions about
> >> how it works. How does activemerchant implement recurring billing?
> >> Does it poll the gateway every month to charge the customer's credit
> >> card? I want to use PayPal express checkout, because it is the
> >> simplest I can get in my country here, but when I look at the
> >> comparison matrix, the recurring billing is not implemented. Is this
> >> something that the user can implement by themselves by using
> >> scheduler?
>
> >> Thank you very much in advance for your assistance.
>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Joshua
>
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