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

Question: First, does Paypal require a user to register for recurring billing with Website Payment Standard? Yes, I believe so. Paypal wants the user to be able to cancel the payments as needed.

Question: I planned to use ActiveMerchant but I found some blogs that says ActiveMerchant doesn't support recurring billing from Paypal. is this true? That's what I see, too. You can implement it through the Paypal SOAP interface, though. It's not too tough.

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