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Simple Member Pro & Credit Card Payment via Paypal

by Cynthia Mosher
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I have a membership site using Simple Member Pro as my script.
This is what shows on my site before the purchaser is taken to Paypal to login:


juji you are almost done signing up.

To complete your enrollment, please click on the "Subscribe" button below. You may make payment with your credit card or through your Paypal funded account.

Don't forget to click the Return To Merchant button once you complete payment.
TI click on Subscribe and go to the Paypal login page which gives me the option to login or click to sign up for an account. No where do I see the option to pay with a credit card instead. Isn't that an option on Paypal? I know I have seen it before but can't figure out why it is not showing for my test payment.
#card #credit #member #payment #paypal #pro #simple
  • Profile picture of the author Cynthia Mosher
    I tried again and got a different page this time. The first page tells me I can use a credit card if I don't have an account. The second one tells me I must have a Paypal account.
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher View Post

      I tried again and got a different page this time. The first page tells me I can use a credit card if I don't have an account. The second one tells me I must have a Paypal account.
      You cannot have a subscription managed by PayPal unless you have a PayPal account.
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      • Profile picture of the author Cynthia Mosher
        I understand that. But I thought Paypal would allow a single payment via credit card without compelling the individual to open an account. Is that no longer an option for a buyer? Or is it something I will have to manually ad on as another page as a non-recurring subscription?
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        • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
          Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher View Post

          Is that no longer an option for a buyer? Or is it something I will have to manually ad on as another page as a non-recurring subscription?
          It's something you have to add manually. When you bill for a subscription, it's just that - a subscription. It doesn't automatically convert to a single payment unless you explicitly permit that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cynthia Mosher
    Thanks for the info. Now I wonder what would be better - a Paypal page for a single non-recurring purchase or a recurring Clickbank product as a separate page to which I refer all those who don't want to pay by Paypal.

    Any thoughts?
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher View Post

      Thanks for the info. Now I wonder what would be better - a Paypal page for a single non-recurring purchase or a recurring Clickbank product as a separate page to which I refer all those who don't want to pay by Paypal.
      I'd do the Clickbank product, myself.
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      "The Golden Town is the Golden Town no longer. They have sold their pillars for brass and their temples for money, they have made coins out of their golden doors. It is become a dark town full of trouble, there is no ease in its streets, beauty has left it and the old songs are gone." - Lord Dunsany, The Messengers
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  • Profile picture of the author Cynthia Mosher
    What's the reasoning, if you don't mind explaining the pros and cons of the two.
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by Cynthia Mosher View Post

      What's the reasoning, if you don't mind explaining the pros and cons of the two.
      I'm not sure how to make a membership expire if the user doesn't make his next monthly payment and it's a one-time payment. If he cancels a subscription or a payment fails, that is something happening, and the software will probably handle it just fine. But if he makes a single payment, then doesn't make the next one, that's something not happening.

      So I can either try to figure out how I can make one-time payments work, or use a different recurring payment option. And the different recurring payment option is easier.
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      "The Golden Town is the Golden Town no longer. They have sold their pillars for brass and their temples for money, they have made coins out of their golden doors. It is become a dark town full of trouble, there is no ease in its streets, beauty has left it and the old songs are gone." - Lord Dunsany, The Messengers
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  • Profile picture of the author Cynthia Mosher
    Okay, that makes sense. But I'm still stuck on how to automate the registration since the whole thing is set up in Simple Member Pro. It will not create the account without the Paypal payment made. If I set up the membership subscription as a Clickbank product then I manually place the person's membership in the back end of SMP and send them their username and password that I created for them?

    I'm guessing it would be the same issue if I set up a single nonrecurring payment on Paypal.

    But then with Clickbank it will be recurring so at least I retain that element of the payment process and don't have to ask the person to pay again.

    Sure am wishing I had thought through this better and created the site differently.
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