Paypal Subscriptions

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Dan,

It is possible to do recurring billing with paypal and activemerchant if you are have a Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition account w/ recurring billing enabled. This type of account isn't a standard offering on the paypal sites. I had to call a sales rep and specifically request this to get a special "token" I could use to apply. Activemerchant has built in support for doing recurring billing via Payflow using the Payflow gateway (which uses Paypal's XMLPay apis).

- Robin Curry

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This is a complicated topic, especially with Paypal. They're going through a branding transition, so it may not make sense right away. I wrote up how I'm handling this in Lighthouse:

http://activereload.net/2007/5/17/dealing-with-subscription-payments http://activereload.net/2007/6/6/follow-up-to-subscriptions