PayPal changes Subscription/Recurring Billing requirement

[alerttopia]

According to PayPal's website (https://merchant.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=merchant/erp_overview) they now offer an add-on ($19.99/mo) to their Website Payments Standard (free) plan, that allows for Subscription/Recurring Billing services. Looks like the Payments Pro ($29.95) is no longer required to add this feature https://merchant.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=merchant/wp_standard.

My question: If I initially don't want to integrate the payment forms into my site, yet simply want to offer a "subscribe" button that takes me to PayPal servers, processes the payment, returns to my site; do I still need to sign up for the PayPal Pro ($29.95/mo) account?

The link above makes it look like that PayPal no longer requires the Pro account, unless you want to integrate your payment forms into your site.

So, if I create "recurring billing/subscription" buttons with s2member, am I still required to have a Website Payments Pro ($29.95) plan AND the Recurring Billing ($19.95) add-on, or can I simply use the Website Payments Standard (free) AND the Recurring Billing ($19.95)?

Thoughts are welcome, especially from Jason

Cheers.

[peterhuk]

From what I understand the

add-on ($19.99/mo)

just allows your customers to pay by card without creating a paypal account.

I think you will still be limited to the 20% upgrade limit if you ever wanted to offer an upgrade route.

[Cristián Lávaque]

You can do recurring billing with PP Standard + ERP using s2Member.

You can actually do recurring with just Standard, but that'll require the customer to have a PP account. Peter is right (thanks Peter ): ERP allows you to have subscriptions without the PP account.

viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2634&hilit=erp

Does this answer your question?

Regarding the limitation Peter mentioned, s2Member avoids it when using Pro-Forms, which you can use without PayPal Pro, but you would need s2Member Pro for that feature. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2566&p=8891#p8891