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Many, many thanks!

happens when clicking on a listing.

OK – we’re keeping our vendors from accessing the backend, so I suppose they’ll need to navigate to their listing to edit/change, if necessary.

Thanks.

Quite to the contrary. I restate in my prior post that I believe the end user should be allowed to withhold from payment. Nowhere have I shown that I “forgot” that Paypal allows cancellation of payment.

Apparently, my point is not well taken. So, I will restate.

There is a distinct difference between the expiration of a listing with recurring payments, and a payment due date.

This is not a function of Paypal, but rather a function of the way that Geodirectory is written. To say there is nothing we can do about it disregards basic logic that should be considered in the design of the program (certainly CS 101…). At the payment deadline, Geodirectory should determine whether the payment due date is the expiry of the period for which recurring payments occur (i.e., the 12th month), if it is then the “Expiration Notice” notification should be provided to the listing owner, and if it is not (i.e., recurring payments are still scheduled to be made beyond the current payment deadline), an “Upcoming Payment Deadline” should be provided to the user (it would also be complimentary to provide a notice of how much longer the recurring payments are to occur).

Should Geodirectory truly aim to be the plugin of choice for director listings, this is certainly a consideration that should be made by the development team. I truly fail to see how this is not apparent, and to believe this was not a mis-step during the design phase is beyond me…

I understand, though I would figure two separate e-mails should be provided. One as a notification of upcoming payment due, with language that their account will be charged, and another notifying of expiration.

These are two separate notifications.

If a business signs up for a 12 month term, agreeing to monthly payments, is is not correct to provide an “expiration” notice. The expiration of the term is 12 months.

It should be a given that you allow the customer to cancel the agreement/scheduled payment, and at no point did I indicate that it was desired to avoid reminding the customer of a payment coming due.

Guust – you mention a yearly package made in 12 monthly installments, but from what I see with the back-end, if a recurring payment option is set to renew yearly (thereby establishing a 1 yr. expiration date), it’s not going to give me an option to charge monthly.

If the recurring payment is going to be provided, the “expiration” date of the listing should not be set for any time other than the full term, and a “renewal” date should be a part of the system, each having their own notifications to the user.

@purpleedge – Theme-My-Login seems to be a fantastic solution, but I am hoping you can provide some clarification regarding where to dump that code for the login redirect.