recurring payment packages

1. I guess you mean you created listings in the backend and assigned a recurring package to them.
Because the payment plan is not agreed to from the frontend, there is no contract set up with the payment gateway, and nothing will happen.

Recurring contracts need to be entered into by users from the frontend, for things to work. You cannot do that on a user’s behalf.

2. If a user agrees to a recurring contract, then they will get confirmation and an invoice for each payment made. Admin will get confirmation that a listing is added and the user has paid the first time, and each time admin will get notification of the monthly payment.

If you create listings for other businesses, best practice is to create a free package and use that for admin added listings, and then use the Claim Listings addon to force business owners to upgrade to your paid packages.

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EDITED: some corrections made after checking with the developers.

I have set new listings to be ‘pending’ till the admin approves them – so, in a recurring package, does the approval just happen once when the listing commences? Or after each payments is received.

The listing will be “pending” once submitted, even if no payment is made. Approval happens by admin publishing the listing, so you would have to check if payment was made or not.

A recurring package will keep renewing unless the user cancels the contract at PayPal or does not have sufficient funds in his PayPal account. But normally it just keeps renewing as per your settings.

Just wondering though why you only set to monthly for 12 months. Will it expire after? And will people have to submit a new listing?

I hope that is clearer now. Thanks

Yes, that is correct: you only have to manually publish listings after first payment is made and then listings will renew automatically (each month) for the rest of the year.

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