Originally posted by Bryan Ex
That is basically it. Everytime paypal recieves a payment to that account, the IPN system will connect to the specified script (that comes with vBulletin) and update or add subscriptions. So to make sure I have all the info you may want (again, using paypal as the example
1) Fill in the info for my payment company (paypal) in the AdminCP.
2) Create my subscription plans via the AdminCP subscriptions section
3) Enable the IPN service via my paypal account and just put in the location of the script for my forums.
That should be it. Now depending on how I setup my subscriptions will determine what happens when a member of my forums makes a payment. The easiest way is to setup groups that relate to your subscriptions. Then setup what type of access that group will have and have users added to the group for your subscription plan(s).
And then as I stated before, you can use the vBulletin permissions to tie some of this into your website or just write your own code to verify which group a user is in.
So you don't really need to worry about what happens between your forums and the payment system as long as the forums support it. You just have to worry about setting up the various subscription plans and what you want to happen based on when someone pays for a particular plan.
Hopefully that helps. And the item that Regs posted looks pretty nice also.
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