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ClickBank or PayPal for Reoccuring Membership Payments?

by ZaphodBeebleBrox
8 replies
Hi all,

I've been using WishList Member for several years now on various sites, and always with PayPal. I'm setting up a new member area and am thinking of integrating ClickBank this time instead. The main reason is to leverage affiliate promotion for my membership program.

I wonder if I can get a quick thumbs up or down on using ClickBank for reoccurring payments, both from the vendor side and also from the user end.

Opinions?
#clickbank #membership #payments #paypal #reoccuring
  • Profile picture of the author highrank
    As I customer I've experienced both.

    It may be becuase I am not a Clickbank junkie, but I was very aware of the fact I had active recurring payments and it made me feel a little un-easy.

    I think recurring payments from Paypal just feel safer, from the consumer side.

    So, from personal expeirence I'd say your memberships will last longer with Paypal.

    I can appreciate you want to get into the affiliate side of things, but as your aware that there are plenty of scripts and services that support affiliates through Paypal.

    I guess it depends on how badly you want to be a part of the Clickbank marketplace.
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    • Profile picture of the author ZaphodBeebleBrox
      Thanks for reply and sage advice, most appreciated. Now that you've verbalized it, I suppose that might have been why the question came to me in the first place...because I just feel safer (as a customer) with a subscription through PayPal.

      I could do both I suppose, and have two sales pages, use some A/B testing then track the difference between the two reoccurring payment stats.

      Then I get the best of both worlds...unless there's something I'm missing with that thought process...

      I'm doing this now with an ebook I have (sans the tracking) and am seeing sales through affiliates there so I wouldn't want to bypass it all together.

      Thanks for your feedback, it helped me decide
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  • Profile picture of the author Ruth P
    I will also admit I like having recurring memberships in PayPal from a customer point of view, it's always very easy to cancel it myself without relying on contacting support. But then again ClickBank does offer PayPal as an option as well as credit card payments (I guess they do for recurring payments too?), and I do think it's a good idea to set up an affiliate program as soon as possible so that's the obvious benefit there.

    You could try some other solutions that work with WishList member for the affiliate side. I don't use it myself so can't offer specific ideas but know that Clickbank is definitely not the only option.
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  • Profile picture of the author NateRivers
    I use Clickbank for my membership sites and I like it because it's so easy and it always works- not to say that paypal doesn't- I started with Clickbank and I've always been happy with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
    From an affiliate program perspective, here's a recent thread that has some good points about using CB and Paypal on the same site (not Paypal via CB, but direct CB and direct Paypal), and how it could potentially impact your affiliates.

    While the thread is really discussing it from a DAP user's perspective, I believe the comments apply to anyone considering publishing separate Paypal and CB buttons on their web site.

    Full thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-together.html

    Hope this helps.

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