Step 4:<\/strong> Once you have the setup done you can place a subscription button for a WP eStore subscription product using the following shortcode:<\/div>\n[wp_pg_eStore_subscription_button id=\"1\" gateway=\"auth_arb\"]<\/pre>\n1 is the eStore product ID in this example so change it to your product ID.<\/div>\n
Important Notes<\/h2>\n
Authorize.net ARB doesn’t offer the same level of flexibility that PayPal does when it comes to creating a subscription\/recurring payment.\u00c2\u00a0ARB has lots of restrictions for recurring payment which we have to abide by in our plugin.<\/p>\n
\n- 1.<\/strong> ARB doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any option to set a different \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trial period\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (e.g. 7 days) from the one specified in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Recurring Billing Cycle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (example, 1 month). So \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Trial Billing Period\u00e2\u20ac\u009d will always follow the values specified in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Recurring Billing Cycle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (under Subscription\/Recurring Payment settings <\/strong>section).\u00c2\u00a0Basically\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>you can’t set a different period for trial and recurring. For example: Trial Period: 10 days, Recurring Period: 30 days won’t work. If you set Recurring Period: 30 days, Trial Period will also have to be 30 days. Please note that you will only need to worry about this option if you choose to offer a trial.<\/li>\n
- 2.<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Recurring Billing Cycle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cannot be more than 1 year or less than 7 days (as ARB only support a Subscription Length of 7-365 days or 1-12 months).\u00c2\u00a0The term “Recurring Billing Cycle” refers to how often it will be charged. For example: once every 7 days, once every month (30 days), once every year (365 days). Here, 7 days is the minimum value that ARB accepts and you can set it up to a year (365 days).<\/li>\n
- 3.<\/strong> A Once off payment doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t apply on ARB. So entering -1 in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Recurring Billing Count\u00e2\u20ac\u009d field will not work.<\/li>\n
- 4.<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reattempt on failure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d option is not applicable for Authorize.not ARB since it doesn’t send any notification when the subscription is rebilled or a payment fails. They do claim that they have a silent post feature to notify a remote script when a particular event occurs on their site. But it doesn’t seem to work and they don’t have any official documentation on it either.<\/li>\n
- 5.<\/strong> A free trial can be offered by specifying \u00e2\u20ac\u01530\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Trial Billing Amount\u00e2\u20ac\u009d field. For example -\u00c2\u00a0If you set Trial: 0.00 for 1 Month and Recurring: 5.00 for 1 Month, Authorize.net will not charge any initial amount when the user subscribes. When one month runs out it will charge 5.00 (recurring) and will keep doing it every month unless you limit the number of occurrences (By specifying a value in the “Recurring Billing Count” field).<\/li>\n
- 6.<\/strong> If you are using a trial amount then the number of occurrences\/installments (Recurring Billing Count) need to include the trial one too. For example – if you specify “4” in the “Recurring Billing Count” field then ARB will charge 1 count as the trial and 3 count as the actual recurring subscription. That means Authorize.net will charge the initial amount (trial amount) and rebill 3 more times (recurring amount). If you don’t have any trial then it will charge the initial amount (recurring amount) and rebill 3 more times (recurring amount).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Here is a screenshot of how the eStore subscription settings section looks like:<\/p>\n
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Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n
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2.<\/strong> Can I use both PayPal and Authorize.net at the checkout and they can choose which option that they want?<\/p>\n-\u00c2\u00a0Subscription buttons work like “Buy Now” buttons. Once you click it takes you to the checkout page. So the users don’t get to select any checkout method. They click on a button and it takes them to a page where they make the payment using their credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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