Newbie Questions: Paypal and Recurring payment questions

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  1. montgojollc

    montgojollc New Member

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    Hi Forum, I recently purchased GeoCraft to play around with a project or two. I have some questions that are a little basic:

    1. For the PayPal merchant ID, I'm used to just using my free paypal account, do I need to sign up as a paid business?

    2. For recurring payments are the "Featured Listing" prices billed on a recurring basis?

    3. Is the system integrated such that if a payment is declined an ad will become inactive?
     
  2. akbar92

    akbar92 Support Staff Staff Member

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    Hello,

    Thanks for contacting us,

    Yes, You have to sign up as a paid business.

    Yes, the prices billed on the regular basis.

    Yes, if a payment has declined then an ad will become inactive.

    Hope you find the above information helpful.

    Regards,
    Akbar
    InkThemes.com
     
  3. montgojollc

    montgojollc New Member

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    Thank you, and do I simply use the email associated with my business account or use a different merchant ID or Number?
     
  4. montgojollc

    montgojollc New Member

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    Hi there,
    There is either a bug or the answer to the above question was incorrect. I set up a site with a daily cost of .50 and .50 for the banner inclusion as well. It looks like the only cost treated as recurring is the ad itself. This makes that feature not as worthwhile for recurring ads. Any thoughts? This is from PayPal:

    Payment details
    Trial Period $1.50 USD 1 0 Daily $1.50 USD
    Regular Recurring Payment $0.50
    Total $1.50 USD

     
  5. akbar92

    akbar92 Support Staff Staff Member

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    Hello,

    That for getting back to us,

    I didn't quite understand your query properly. Will you please elaborate it a bit more?

    So that we could deliver you an exact and appropriate solution to you.

    I look forward to hearing from you.

    Regards,
    Akbar
    InkThemes.com
     
  6. montgojollc

    montgojollc New Member

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    Thanks Akbar,
    I have two major issues that are "show stoppers" for my site going live. As background, I set up a test site where a recurring payment of $1 is charged daily. The user has the options to pay $1 for the homepage slider as well as $1 for the categories slider. So if someone placed a recurring ad with both sliders paid for I would expect a recurring payment of $3 daily. Here are the issues

    1. The recurring price is only for the advertisement at $1 and does not charge for the sliders after the initial payment period.

    2. Even though the payments are processed daily via paypal, the system is disabling the ads as expired. So the customers would continue to be charged, yet their ads would be disabled and they would receive emails asking them to renew their ad.

    Please advise ASAP. Other than these issues the site is ready to go live.
     

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