I was curious if there is a way to have paid subscriptions for users.

Say I wanted a user to pay like $50 for a year, is this possible? If so how? Will E-commerce do this?

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vm’s picture

not sure about ecommerce, i believe it will, however that may be more overhead then you want if subscritions is all you are interested in. lm_paypal module also handles paid subscriptions, and its HEAD version works on Drupal 5

xamox’s picture

Alright I will look into it, thanks. You know if there is a way to do it via Credit Card?

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vm’s picture

paypal handles credit cards so, yes there is a way. If you mean a way for you to directly handle storage and collection of CC#'s no. Trust that you wouldn't want that responsibility.

Anonymous’s picture

If you are looking for a straight subscriptions solution, I made a module to handle PayPal Subscriptions with recurring payment, but it is for 6.x only. I am planning to port it to 5.10 soon. You can PM me if you still need something like this.

ccdoss’s picture

Do you have a link to this module? I'd love to use it!!!

Anonymous’s picture

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't see your post. I have updated my Paypal Subscriptions module a TON and it is now a very robust system. I sell it on my site, and you can see screenshots and more info here: http://www.moneyscripts.net/drupal-paypal-subscriptions

-Leighton

ore’s picture

I too need this functionality and am interested in what people have done or would recommend. I achieved this in oscommerce and phpnuke by hacking the system. Works quite well but when I upgrade my site to drupal I do not want to do this ;-)

ore

Steel Rat’s picture

I'm currently setting up a subscription site using the lm_paypal module. Testing has shown that it works fine, and no need to store sensitive user information on your site. There are some things I wish the module would do, but so far the owner has not responded to my feature request.

Steel Rat
Drupal Site: RPGMapShare.com

xamox’s picture

What about CiviCRM? It seems that in conjunction with the eCommerce module it may be able to do what I want. I haven't dove deep enough into CiviCRM but it looks like you can setup reoccuring payments, membership lengths, methods of payments like Paypal, Google Checkout, etc. I guess we will find out because I may have a client who wants this type of feature so I will post the solution if I ever have to implement it.

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laryn’s picture

I'd love to see if you've implemented anything. I think ideally the membership groups of CiviCRM would be linked somehow to user roles in Drupal (even if it had to be through a cronjob or something like that)...so that, for example, when the membership expires the user is "demoted" to an "expired account" role in drupal...

xamox’s picture

I never got to do the site, so I never found a solution to it, sorry.

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ccdoss’s picture

Do any of these subscription modules allow trial periods? I'd like the user to say, have access for 1 week before they are charged.

esllou’s picture

Look into aMember. 3rd party script.

I think they have a Drupal tie up.

joshuajoshua’s picture

By using recurring products with ecommerce it seems subscriptions can be created when combined with role adjustment. Nicely- if members "renew" before their subscription is complete it kindly tacks it onto the end of the previous one.

duncancarver’s picture

Hi Guys,

I use amember.com to manage this. It is an additional script which manages member accounts, payment via multiple payment options (paypal, 2checkout, clickbank and a heap of others), and has affiliate program features. It works pretty well. They have a drupal module plugin to allow the two systems to "talk" together.

Best...

Duncan