I’m not a technical person and setting up your payment processor through paypal for your membership site sounds technical and hard to do if you haven’t done it before, but it isn’t that bad. You would be amazed at how quickly you can get it done. I’ll walk you through the whole process in this article.
The first thing that you need to do is get a Business or Premier paypal account. You need to verify bank information and fill out some information. You have to have this to accept payments.
Once you have that done, while you’re logged in and on the main page click on the tab where it says merchant services. You will see a section where it says create buttons, under that there is a link to subscribe. Click on that.
Make sure that the subscriptions and recurring billing is check. For the item name, just put your membership name or something similar. You can then customize the appearance. I have graphic design guys come up with graphics for my payment buttons and link to them, but you can use the basic button.
Your membership site creator should be set up to let them pick their login and password so leave that box empty, you shouldn’t need paypal to create user names or passwords. Then put in the amount you charge and how often they are billed, the standard is one month. If it is every month for life, then leave the box empty.
You can leave the next option as yes and the next box open if you aren’t offering a trial period. Then you can keep the next area checked yes. You shouldn’t have to worry about the tracking section.
Click on the last section customized advanced features. You shouldn’t need their mailing address if you are delivering their content to their e-mail address or through your web site.
You can put a link to your sales page if they decide to cancel the order, it will give them another chance at completing the transaction. If you want to take them to a specific page after completing the transaction, like the sign up page, then specify.
That is it, click on create your button. Then you copy and past the code and put it on your sales page and you have yourself a payment button and the rest of it is hands off, paypal will automatically bill them each time that you have specified.
