Integration Guide

PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide June 2012 175
Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Subscribe Buttons with JavaScript Disabled
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–In the Trial Period #2 dropdown menus for how long this trial period should last,
select a number and a unit of duration.
For more information, see “Specifying Trial Periods with Subscribe Buttons” on page 137.
7. Specify the regular billing cycle for the subscription.
– Subscription Price – Enter the amount that you want to bill subscribers for regular
billing cycles that occur after trial periods end.
– Under the recurring basis link, select the No radio button if you want the subscription
to expire after the end of the first regular billing cycle.
– In the dropdown menus for the length of each billing cycle, select a number and a unit
of duration.
– Under the text that reads stop the recurring payments after a certain number, select
the Yes radio button if you want to limit the number of regular billing cycles for a
subscription.
– If you select the Ye s radio button in the previous step, select the number of times you
that want the regular billing cycle to recur before the subscription expires.
– Under the text that reads if payment fails for the subscription, select the No radio
button if you want subscriptions to cancel immediately after attempts to collect recurring
payments fail.
For more information, see “Reattempting Failed Recurring Payments with Subscribe
Buttons” on page 144
The following example shows how to set up regular billing cycles for a year-long
installment plan with 12 equal, monthly payments.
For more information, see “Limiting the Number of Billing Cycles with Subscribe
Buttons” on page 137.
8. Choose a button style for your Subscribe button.
Select the radio button next to the image that you want to use, if you are going to be
receiving payments from your website instead of by using an email payment link. The
image that you select is hosted by PayPal.