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Setting Up Pre-Payments

by Trivum
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Is there an easy way to allow customers to buy a course and put their credit card down, but then not actually pay for the course until it's delivered (say two or three months later)?

Can this be done with PayPal?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author webmarke
    Yes...you can do this with paypal. I think it's done with their subscription payment option.

    You can set up a subscription payment with a trial period for as long as you want. Note: The subscription could be a lifetime subscription, yearly, monthly, etc.)

    After the trial period is over, then the payment will automatically be paid via paypal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    Great, thanks.
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    When I look in PayPal, it gives me the option to stop the billing cycle, but the lowest option is gives me is to stop the cycle after 2 times.

    If I use a trail period, does that count as one time?

    If not, it looks like I have to charge people at least twice.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
      Paypal assumes that you will have at least 2 payment cycles (after the free trial) simply because it IS intended to be a "subscription".

      Originally Posted by Trivum View Post

      When I look in PayPal, it gives me the option to stop the billing cycle, but the lowest option is gives me is to stop the cycle after 2 times.

      If I use a trail period, does that count as one time?

      If not, it looks like I have to charge people at least twice.
      Therefore, their wizard for creating a subscription button does NOT provide for just 1 recurring billing, and there is no way to override that with the use of their button wizard.

      However, after the button is created, simply save the underlying code (it's just an HTML form with a bunch of hidden variables) to a file on your local machine. Open that file with a text editor and simply change the value of the 'srt' field to 1.

      example:
      <input type='hidden' name='srt' value='1'>
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  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    Does anyone know how the cycles work in PayPal?
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    • Profile picture of the author agmccall
      Originally Posted by Trivum View Post

      Does anyone know how the cycles work in PayPal?
      Yes, paypal does. And, if you log into your paypal account there is a link to contact them. Use that link, get the phone number and give them a call. I have never had to wait more than a few minutes on hold to talk to them

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  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    Thanks, Sid.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trivum
    In case anyone else is looking for this, I found that Gumroad lets you set up prepayments. You can also change your release date, moving it forward or backward.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    Yeah you can do this with PayPal
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    • Profile picture of the author Trivum
      Originally Posted by michaelkoehler92 View Post

      Yeah you can do this with PayPal
      In the method mentioned above, or some other way?
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