Integration Guide

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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Managing Subscriptions
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 Sunday, March 1= $25.99 USD
 Wednesday, April 1= $25.99USD
 and so on...
Notice that no recurring monthly payment was collected in February, but recurring payments
were collected roughly every 30 days.
How Subscriptions with Yearly Billing Cycles Work
For yearly billing cycles, recurring payments are collected on the same month and day each
year. If the initial recurring payment falls on February 29th of a leap year, PayPal adjusts the
billing cycle to March 1st the following year.
When Yearly Recurring Payments Are Due and Collected
The subscription terms are:
 $125.99 USD a year; the subscriber signs up on a Friday, February 29.
The subscriber is billed as follows:
 Friday, February 29, 2008 = $125.99 USD
 Sunday, March 1, 2009 = $125.99 USD
 Sunday, March 1, 2010 = $125.99 USD
 and so on...
Downloading Subscriber Lists
If you accepted your first subscription payment before October 15, 2009:
You can download a text file that contains all of your non-payment subscription history –
signups, cancellations, and ends of term. You can manipulate the download file to produce
these kinds of lists:
 All current and past subscribers – Exclude “Subscription Cancellation” and
“Subscription Completion” activity
 All active subscribers – Include activity with an “active,” “active-completed,” or “active-
cancelled” status
To download a file with your non-payment subscription history:
1. Log in to your PayPal account at
https://www.paypal.com.
2. Move your mouse over the History tab and then click the Download History link.
The Download History page opens.
3. Specify the time frame for the subscription activity that you want to download.
4. From the File Types for Download dropdown menu, select “Subscriptions.”