Paypal, Recurring Billing, and ActiveMerchant

Question

I\'m trying to research how to add a subscription based pay model on an existing site of mine, but am running into a lot of conflicting information and caused me to be a bit los

Answer 1

If you're using Paypal subscriptions then you will probably need a Paypal business account. Nothing scary it's just a case of supplying a business name to paypal and requesting your existing account to be converted over.

I also looked through a few Paypal subscrition solutions for rails and eventually just created my own.

I've written it up here Adding PayPal subscriptions to your Rails App with 1 Controller.