PayPal Subscription

[HD1512]

Hi there,
I've just installed the S2Member plugin and activated a PayPal business account. I want subscribers to my site to be able to have a monthly subscription which they can pay for either with a PayPal account or credit card. I've upgrated my PayPal account to have the premium subscription features. Here in the UK it appears you don't have to pay a monthly fee but you do have higher transactions costs.

In any event when I generate the PayPal button from S2Member it generates a "pay now with PayPal, the safer way to checkout" button (or something like that), but if I go in from PayPal and generate a Subscription button it has the icons for credit cards and says "Subscribe", which looks much cleaner and lets subscribers know they can use a credit card. However, I imagine I need to generate the button from S2Member in order for it to be linked up properly? Is this correct? Or can I use the button generated from PayPal? If not is there anyway to get the cleaner looking "Subscribe" button through S2Member?

Many thanks

[Eduan]

Try using pro-forms.
You'll find them under WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal® Pro Forms.

[HD1512]

Unfortunately I don't seem to have that option in the s2Member menu. I imagine its for s2Member Pro. Considering i don't need a paypal pro account nor an s2member pro to charge a subscription rate is there no other way to do this? changing a piece of the button generation code or something?

[Eduan]

It is for s2Member Pro.
Changing a piece of the code won't help, since the button must be integrated in WordPress.

[HD1512]

Okay thanks, so basically the answer is no - I can't use the "subscribe" button with s2member, the standard version?

[Eduan]

You can, but not the pro-forms, that basically ask all the information needed without the need to go to another page.

[Cristián Lávaque]

You can use the PayPal button generated with s2Member's shortcode and change the image to the one you prefer using the image attribute. WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Buttons -> Shortcode Attributes -> image

I hope that helps.