Exsiting Paypal Subscriptions, Will they work?

[gordonrp]

So I have a ton of existing paypal subscriptions.

 

If I:

• add clients to whmcs using their paypal email
  
• add product for each client
  

 

Will their account be credited when their EXISTING paypal subscriptions process, or do I need to cancel each subscription and have them resubscribe?

 

If the latter, why? Is there a way to associate all payments from a certain paypal account to a certain account?

 

For example, I have some old (stone age, hard to use a computer) clients who I know will have a hard time signing into WHMCS for the odd services I provide them. I'd like to be able to send them a direct paypal link (which I can create myself in paypal) but still keep track of their billing in WHMCS.

 

This also applies for my corporate clients, the billing controller at Corp X is NOT going to login to WHMCS and pay via paypal, it is hard enough getting them to pay via a direct paypal link (which they do).

 

I remember seeing a thread here a while back about having invoice links work without having to login, perhaps using a long unique key. Did anything ever happen with that? Is there someone I can pay to implement that?

 

Cheers,

Gordon

[gordonrp]

Perhaps "subscription id" under the clients product section is where I can set pre-existing paypal subscriptions to have them credit that account?

[ITSNev]

HI Gordon,

 

I've been through this and before WHMCS I had users subscribing via a PayPal Button, this correctly setup the subscriptions. However, when Migrating to WHMCS I contacted PayPal and ask the Question if I was to load all the subscription details in my WHMCS DB would PayPal correctly send the payment details through to WHMCS, the answer was a resounding NO and that all subscribers would need to subscribe again through the new GateWay. We already had over 2,000 user subscribed this way, but we managed to get them all to subscribe again through WHMCS by offering a small discount for their trouble.

 

Regards

Nev

[WHMCS John]

ITSNev is right, unfortunately PayPal don't allow you to change the IPN url on existing subscriptions, so there's no way to make them notify WHMCS when you've received a payment for them.

[gordonrp]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. Fortunately this did work! I did not previously set a call back URL in each subscription (but did have my paypal account level IPN url set to something, that wasn't even being used) which may be the reason it worked for me.

 

I simply changed the global IPN URL in paypal to mysite.com/modules/gateways/callback/paypal.php, and manually input each clients subscription id from paypal into whmcs.

 

Pre-existing paypal subscriptions are indeed posting to the correct user's accounts automatically, which is great and is saving me a lot of time!

 

Cheers,

Gordon

[RFEHosting]

I moved form Clientexec to WHMCS, it is using the same folder, so the address is the same.

 

I used the import tool provided by whmcs, and imported all my clients, then manually entered all their sub id's.

How can i check t see if mine will be working, or if i need everyone to resub.

 

IF so how do i get them to resub.?

[ninak]

When we went from clientexec to WHMCS we did not have a problem with the subscription service using PayPal. Each clients subscription was added manual to the product page. Changed notification URL to match the WHMCS and we do recieve all info and accounts get credited properly.

 

Technically you are not changing gateways, because you are still using the PayPal gateway.

PayPal gateway is PayPal gateway. The person who told you that you had to change gateways may have misunderstood and thought that you were changing something else.

 

We have been using Paypal since 2001 and have changed a few times. with no problem. The only thing that took long to change was the company name.

[Data 1]

I have to add, as gordonrp found out this does indeed work. The trick is as he stated is the IPN link you specify at paypal, it HAS TO include the full URL to the actual callback script (/modules/gateways/callback/paypal.php).

 

This will save me hours of time every month which I did have since WHMCS had already saved me tons of time.

 

Thanks-

[JerusaHost- Mark]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. Fortunately this did work! I did not previously set a call back URL in each subscription (but did have my paypal account level IPN url set to something, that wasn't even being used) which may be the reason it worked for me.

 

I simply changed the global IPN URL in paypal to mysite.com/modules/gateways/callback/paypal.php, and manually input each clients subscription id from paypal into whmcs.

 

Pre-existing paypal subscriptions are indeed posting to the correct user's accounts automatically, which is great and is saving me a lot of time!

 

Cheers,

Gordon

 

our paypal IPN notification url is currently empty. Will entering the above url you suggested correct the issue of unattached subscriptions without disrupting logging of current subscriptions?

[pawl]

We are doing this successfully.

 

When you add a product to a client, you can add a "subscription ID". This will make WHMCS automatically mark their invoice paid next time you get an IPN notice.