Dear 2checkout,
We are using the system for over 2 years now and are really happy with it. Next to 2co we have paypal running as a payment option.
With Paypal you can create a recurring product like you create a normal one-time product, only difference is that you provide a few extra parameters like billing interval, billing period and till when recurring should take place (in most cases this would be forever i guess).
As far as I know now it is only possible to create a recurring product in the admin area and pass the product_id in the form when having a customer signing up in 2co.
The problem is that as we are a hosting company we have customers being billed every month but invoices are almost never the same with over 500 customers. Importing recurring products with a CSV file will also not be ideal as you can have the scenario where you a customer is signing up and will pay for their first invoice while adding a recurring product (either manually or via csv import) will happen later in most cases.
It shouldn’t be too hard to implement form parameters which allow recurring products to be created real time right?
Just wanted to know if this is already being implemented or if there is any ETA.
Thanks !
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You are correct all plug and play products including recurring products must be created in your 2Checkout supplier account and the price must be defined prior to the sale. The products must then be passed into our purchase routine using our plug and play parameter set. Your request for additional parameters which would create recurring products on the fly has been noted and will be passed on to our developers. At this time we have no ETA and cannot confirm whether or not this feature request can be implemented but we will update the post as any information becomes available.
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Hi Craig,
Thanks for the update.
Funny question, is there a limit on products i can load with CSV?
Because as temporary solution I am going to generate a CSV file then with products from 0.01 till 9999.99 and keep a local file with the amount and product_id, I just need to know if I can load 1 million products
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I tried it but it is not working, I spent over half a hour to import 3000 products and with 996000 products still to go i would call it a no-go.
Other and much easier feature for you guys to implement would be a postback url which people can call to add a product, it can be secured with a hash code for instance and should be no to hard to build.
Example:
https://www.2checkout.com/script/productadd?hashcode=blabla&product_name=blabla&product_price=100&recurring=true&period=1_month&cycle=forever
something like that, then we can call that url to add a product, fetch the product_id and generate a payment form code
Such or even beter with form parameters would be highly appreciated here and I don’t think that will be just me
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Thank you for the great suggestion. We will certainly pass this along to our developers as a feature request.