Results 1 to 6 of 6
Thread: Billing Upgrades/Downgrades
Hybrid View
-
08-16-2010, 04:34 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
- Join Date
- Jun 2009
- Posts
- 74
Billing Upgrades/Downgrades
Ok this may seem like a silly question, since normally this is just handled by the billing system. However I am not using any normal billing system I am opting to write my own so it can be intergrated with my custom control panel for a specialized type of hosting I am going to do.
That said, I will be accepting PayPal payments via Website Payments Standard and intergrating with IPN. Users may opt to pay each invoice as it comes or use a subscription to have it auto-paid.
Now my question is how do I handle upgrade and downgrades for those who pay by subscription?
-
08-16-2010, 06:21 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
- Join Date
- Sep 2006
- Posts
- 37
You probably can't. The only possibility is cancel the subscription manually at paypal if you have a upgrade/downgrade request and let your customer re-subscribe from the 1st invoice after the upgrade/downgrade.
That is how we do it anyway. I think there is no option to raise/lower the recurring price for a current paypal subscription. The customer has to agree to that first...
-
08-16-2010, 10:42 AM #3Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Aug 2009
- Location
- UK
- Posts
- 1,140
█ Hydro Host – Affordable UK Web Hosting - cPanel
█ Shared Hosting – Reseller Hosting – Domain Name Registration - Affiliate Program
█ www.hydro-host.net
-
08-16-2010, 11:39 AM #4Junior Guru Wannabe
- Join Date
- Sep 2006
- Posts
- 37
-
08-16-2010, 12:36 PM #5Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jun 2003
- Location
- Sheffield
- Posts
- 810
WHMCS does allow clients to change the subscription amounts, however due to limitations in PayPal's API it's not quite perfect: http://wiki.whmcs.com/PayPal#Modify_Subscriptions
-
08-16-2010, 02:45 PM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
- Join Date
- Jun 2009
- Posts
- 74
Thanks for the info. For now though I don't have access to PayPal API's as I am not using Pro, maybe as a grow it might be worth the cost to use API's to automate more stuff.
In the meantime When the customer upgrades/dpwngrades I'll just have it generate an email to me telling me to csncel their subnscription then I will manually do that and on their next non-prorated invoice it will provide the customer with a button to start a new subscription.
Thanks for the insight.
I am really starting to have an appriciation for what billing systems do. When I read that link about WHMCS modifying subscriptons elsewhere on the page it mentioned that it won't show the user a subscription button after the due date to avoid all future payments being late, thats something I probably would not have thought of until it happens to me unless I saw that.
Similar Threads
-
Knownhost 3 month review, upgrades, and downgrades
By trnt94 in forum VPS HostingReplies: 17Last Post: 01-19-2008, 06:52 PM -
*FREE UPGRADES* cPanel - WHMCS Billing Software - End-User Support - And more...
By nax9 in forum Reseller Hosting OffersReplies: 0Last Post: 07-24-2007, 12:42 PM -
*FREE UPGRADES* Free WHMCS Billing Software - End-User Support - And More..
By nax9 in forum Reseller Hosting OffersReplies: 1Last Post: 07-05-2007, 10:22 PM -
What happens when someone upgrades/downgrades/cancels in Lpanel/WHMAP/etc... and 2CO?
By nax9 in forum Ecommerce Hosting & DiscussionReplies: 4Last Post: 12-21-2004, 09:55 AM