Create a Paypal Subscribe Button for Recurring Payments

If you’re Setting up Paypal Integration With your Wishlist Membership Plugin you may need to create a Paypal Subscribe Button button and setup monthly recurring billing.

If you’re offering a one off membership, you’ll need to create a Paypal buy now button instead.

In this short tutorial, i’ll show you how simple it is to create a subscrine button in your Paypal account.

Firstly, navigate to the Merchant Services Section in your PayPal Business account.

Here you’ll need to create a button for each membership level using the Item/Subscription ID specified below.

If you only have one membership level then simply create a Paypal button for that level using the unique I.D generated by your Wishlist plugin.

1. Firstly, log in to your PayPal Business account at https://www.paypal.com.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
3. Under the Selling Preferences heading, click the My Saved Buttons link.
4. In the Related Items box on the right, click the Create new button link.
5. In the Choose a button type drop down menu, select “Subscriptions.”
6. Enter the payment details of your subscription. Subscription name – Enter a name for the subscription. For example, enter “Gold membership level”. Recurring amount to be billed – Enter the amount you want to bill subscribers for each monthly billing cycle. For example, enter “39.00”.
7. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the Create Button button.
8. Click the Select Code button on the Websites tab to select all of the generated HTML code.
9. Paste the code into your WordPress HTML editor and save the changes.

Note: If you’re creating a Paypal button which is integrated with Wishlist membership plugin, you’ll need to paste the code from Step 5 of the WL Member » Integration » Shopping Cart settings. Looks something like this depending on what URL you set for the ‘Thank You URL”.

You also need to enter a URL in these fields:

• Take customers to this URL when they cancel their checkout – Home page
• Take customers to this URL when they finish checkout – Login page for access to membership site

Paypal Subscribe to Checkout Process

When your subscribers buy a subscription from your website, they follow this process.

Once you’ve created a subscribe button for your website, your customers follow this process to the checkout.