Membership fees

john34

Hi all, I hope I have put this question in the right place – if not Sorry! I am in the process of making a website and have decide to make it a members only site and to charge a small monthly fee to join. However I don’t want users to have to input their details each month. So is there service that will take a monthly reoccurring fee ? I was reading up on EPDQ but it all sounds a bit big business for me ! I only want to charge a tiny amount (possibly £1 per month per member) but just need a simple way to make this charge each month ! I don’t want to be responsible for the transaction myself – the security problems with customer details would scare me. Any ideas ??? Thanks John

Johnny

You'll probably not find many payment processors setup for such small fees. You would be better off grouping payments together so people have to buy 3 months, but each month is only £1. PayPal have a recurring membership and is likely to be the easiest option.

badgrs

For £1 a month it will hardly be worth your while, any online payment service will probably charge you around 50p just for the transaction, you'd be better off billing yearly. You can do subscription based payments with PayPal (I've payed my web hosting like this for a few years now), I think its pretty simple to do as long as you don't mind using the PayPal payments screens.

badgrs

Beat me to it damnit! ;)

john34

Thanks all !!! I will definatly have a go with paypal ! and grouping the payments does sound like a good idea ! Thanks again :-)

Tauseef A

what the shit is that ? what the hell is this goin on ?

hello

john34

Hi, I am not sure what you are referring to ? :confused: ?

ghumman63 wrote:

what the sh*t is that ? what the hell is this goin on ?

Please feel free to reply with a more specific question Thanks ;)

intonet

Using PayPal as your merchant will cost you 23.5p on a £1.00 transaction (3.4% + £0.20p). Potentiall not the end of the world if you can then upsell to your clients. Using the PayPal PayFlow Pro .NET API it's a piece of piddle to integrate into your web site. It's about £20.00 a month for the PayFlow subscription, with a further charge for recurring payments. www.paypal.com