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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 1
Introduction to PayPal Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
How PayPal Subscriptions can help you
offer subscriptions-based content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PayPal-Supported Currencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2
How It Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
A Visual Tour of PayPal Subscriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
What Your Customer Sees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
What You See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Automating the Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 3
PayPal Subscriptions
Button Factory23
A step-by-step guide to generating your PayPal
Subscriptions Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 4
Timing of Scheduled
Payment Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Payment Time Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Payment Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 5
Subscription Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Cancelling Individual Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Cancelling Multiple Subscriptions At Once. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 6
Modifying Active Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Allow buyers to modify the terms of an active subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Subscriptions and Recurring Payments Guide
May 2005
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