PayPal Recurring payments GPL Overview

A tweak that allows you to create subscriptions and accept recurring payments via PayPal-integrated forms.

Collect PayPal recurring payments

Go past commonplace one-time payments. Use PayPal Recurring Payments to create custom subscriptions subject to a specific billing cycle.

The addon supports fixed, quantity-based, volume-based, and tiered payment types. It’s fully JetFormBuilder-ready, so you’ll be able to accept recurring payments through the PayPal gateway added to the form. Monitor all payments and subscription statuses via a handy separate dashboard.

PayPal Recurring Payments Use Cases

• Streaming service subscription
  Give free access to video content for the first 30 days after signup. Then offer the client to subscribe and pay every month.
• Online business courses
  Provide subscriptions for individual courses like the Leadership program, or a yearly plan for all courses on the platform.
• Social Media Marketing services
  Add plans based on the number of weekly published posts or connected accounts for advertising agencies.
• Licenses subscription plans
  Sell a product Basic, Pro, VIP licenses. Such plans will give access to a different number of services and additional products.
• Fitness training subscription
  Create subscriptions priced based on the difficulty level. Allow users to pay for workout programs on a monthly and yearly basis.
• Claimed listings plans
  Sell website space to advertisers and set tier-based plans for claimed listings. Thus the price will be lower after the fifth, tenth ad, etc.

Explore Functionality of PayPal Recurring Payments

• Subscriptions dashboard
  View and edit all the subscription-related details like subscriber email, billing cycle, status and date through a dashboard.
• Refund support
  Carry out the refund requests right from the Subscriptions dashboard by adding the needed refund amount and note.

• Cancellation button
  To discontinue a subscription, go to single page and click the “Cancel” button. The status would be updated automatically.
• Suspend plan
  To suspend a subscription, go to its single page and press the “Suspend”. Add notes to it if needed.
• Activate subscription
  You can activate a recurring subscription in the PayPal account, but its status will be visible in the dashboard.

Unlock All Addon Options of PayPal Recurring Payments

• Gateway Action
  Choose between “Pay now” and “Create a subscription” options to create a PayPal scenario.
• Request ButtonClick the button to sync Access Token data and the PayPal account.
• Subscription Plan Field
  Choose “Manual Input” to save the selected plan or copy its ID and save it as a Hidden field value.
• Subscription Plan
  Choose the needed PayPal subscription plan from the drop-down Select field.
• Quantity field
  Enter the quantity field by hand or let the addon copy it from the PayPal account.
• Use redirect URL from Redirect notification
  Enable this toggle to send users to a Redirect page after successful payment.
• Available macros list
  The %gateway_status% and %field_name% macros will help you create custom payment success/failed messages.
• Payment success message
  Add a custom message confirming the payment was successful.
• Payment failed message
  Use macros to create a message indicating the payment error occurred.

How to Configure PayPal Recurring Payments

• To configure PayPal subscriptions, you need to complete four steps:
  Set up the PayPal Recurring Payments addon;
• Log in to the business account on the PayPal sandbox website;
• Create a subscription plan;
• Customize a form.