Integration Guide

Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Managing Subscriptions
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124 September 2008 Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
Tracking Subscription Transactions
Read the following topics to learn how PayPal helps you manage Donate transactions.
z Using Email Notices to Track Subscription Transactions
z Using Recent Activity to Track Subscribe Transactions
z Using Transaction History to Track Subscribe Payments
z Using Downloadable History Logs to Track Subscribe Payments
z Using Instant Payment Notification to Track Subscribe Transactions
Using Email Notices to Track Subscription Transactions
PayPal sends you email notices when:
z People sign up for new subscriptions.
z Subscription payments are made.
z Subscriptions end or are canceled.
Generally, PayPal sends email notices to the primary email address of your account.
PayPal can send email notices to an alternate email address, such as to someone in your
organization who handles accounting or manages access to members-only content. Add the
additional email address to your account profile. Then, use that email address as the value for
the business HTML variable when you write the HTML code yourself for your Subscribe
buttons.
For more information, see Appendix A, “HTML Variables for Website Payments Standard.”
Using Recent Activity to Track Subscribe Transactions
PayPal displays Subscribe transactions in your recent activity, soon after subscribers complete
their subscription signups.
FIGURE 3.9 Using Recent Activity to Track Subscribe Transactions
To view your recent history:
1. Log in to you PayPal account.