Thu 10 Jul 2008
Announcing a NEW PLUGIN from Zack Design!
Paypal API Subscriptions is designed to allow your users to register on your blog and subscribe all at once. The Paypal API keeps them on your blog and means that you simply have to skin the Wordpress Admin to suit your site theme. Because it is fully integrated with Wordpress you can keep track of your users easily and effectively.
This plugin defaults to the Paypal Sandbox for test results so you can test it for yourself.
It’s important to realise that you won’t be able to test Express Checkout until you use your own developer API credentials.
Features:
- Subscription button shortcode tags for your posts
- Use your Paypal API credentials
- Integrates with Wordpress registration seamlessly
- Use a Wordpress Admin Theme to make the user transition completely transparent!
- Adheres to all Paypal Guidelines and Requirements
- Uses Wordpress-supplied error checking in the registration form for both transactions and fields! This means no registered users by accident.
- Wordpress-MU compatibility!
- Choice of Express Checkout or Direct Payment for your users (so that ones with Paypal accounts can use that). Automatically generates both, separating each with ‘OR’. Each type of checkout uses the API calls and sends users through your Wordpress registration page.
- When Direct Payment is used the ‘Register’ button is hidden and replaced with ‘Please wait…’ so that users are unable to submit it twice while waiting for the API transaction to take place.
List of possible future features:
- Ability to cancel subscriptions directly inside Wordpress
- Further Paypal Profile changes inside Wordpress from both yourself and your users
- Additional subscription stuff like initial payment and trials
Download: Paypal API Subscriptions


(20 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5)
July 30th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I have to say this plug-in is totally awesome!
At last, a talented coder has shared quality code to handle subscriptions, using PayPal.
Hurray!
July 31st, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Thank you very much! I’m a little worried though about the votes. Nobody is giving any criticism though…?!?!
I’ve recently updated the codebase so that ‘processing your transaction’ is not shown upon clicking the ‘login’ button for Wordpress when this plugin is installed. That might be why some people didn’t like it.
Also I’m wondering whether or not the barrier of entry to paypal subscriptions is still too high even with the benefit of this plugin…
August 5th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
How do I vote for you? Quite frankly, I don’t understand PHP at all and PayPal I understand less. I think this is a cool plug in
August 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
P.S., where’s your real site BTW, if I need to contact you
August 6th, 2008 at 1:54 am
To vote, go up and click on the stars at the top of this page.
My website is at http://www.zackdesign.biz
August 6th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Great plugin!
I was wondering if this works for one off payments ie donations as well?
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August 7th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Thanks slee! For one-off payments I would assume that you could do it as-is… though I haven’t checked it to be sure. Maybe I could add that feature later…