[Diagrams & Video Explanation] Simple Memberships Online Membership Site/Online Salon Creation Plugin ~Subscription PayPal Payment Settings~

A WordPress teacher will carefully explain how to set up Simple Memberships, which allows you to easily create an online membership site or online salon using WordPress and create content exclusive to members!

This time, we will be looking at [Subscription PayPal payment settings]

To set up a subscription, you must register a PayPal business account. You cannot set up a subscription with a personal account.

One-time PayPal payment method explanation

[Illustrated & Video Explanation] Simple Memberships Online Membership Registration Plugin ~ How to Create a PayPal Button [One-Time Payment] ~

Create a PayPal button

Go to [WP Membership] > [Payment]

Select the payment button type

Select [Create New Button] > [PayPla Subscription] and click [Next]

Enter the required information for paypal subscription (top)

1. Button Title
2. Membership Levels
3. Payment Currency
4. paypal email
5. Charges for each cycle
6. Billing Cycle
7. Billing Cycle Count
8. Retry on failure

First, let's set up the following.

Button Title

Give the button a title.

Example: Subscription member 1

Membership Levels

Select the membership level you created.

Payment Currency

Select Japanese Yen (￥).

paypal email

Enter the email address registered to your PayPal account.

Charges for each cycle

Enter the amount. No need to enter yen.

Example: 500

Billing Cycle

You can set the day, month, and year.

Billing Cycle Count

You can set how many times the billing cycle you set will stop. If you want to continue the billing until you cancel your membership, leave it blank.

If you want to set the billing cycle to one month and end the membership after six billings (six-month limited membership)

Example 6

Retry on failure

This setting determines whether to retry if the subscription payment fails. We recommend that you check this option.

> Two attempts will be made, but if the third attempt fails your subscription payment will be cancelled.

Introducing a setting example

Enter the required information for paypal subscription (bottom)

Next, we'll set up the bottom section.

1. Trial Charge
2. Trial Billing Period
3. Return URL
4. Button Image URL
5. Custom Checkout Page Logo Image

Trial Charge

If you want to set an initial price for the trial period that is different from the regular price, enter this here.

Example 0

If you don't want a trial period, leave it blank.

Trial Billing Period

Set the trial period. You can set it by day, month, or year. For example, if you want to try it for 7 days,

Example: 7 Day(s)

Return URL

Enter the page URL to be displayed after clicking the payment button and completing the payment. Prepare a static thank you page.

Create a page by clicking [Static Page] > [Add New]. Details are explained below.

[Illustrated & Video Explanation] Simple Memberships Online Membership Registration Plugin ~ How to Create a PayPal Button [One-Time Payment] ~

Button Image URL

You can set an image for the payment button. If you search for "purchase button image material free," you will find a variety of images. Details of this are also explained below.

[Illustrated & Video Explanation] Simple Memberships Online Membership Registration Plugin ~ How to Create a PayPal Button [One-Time Payment] ~

Custom Checkout Page Logo Image

Set this if you want to display your original logo when making a payment with PayPal.

Introducing a setting example

PayPal button created

The PayPal button you just created is listed in [Manage Payment Button]. Use [Shortcode] to place the PayPal button on the paid membership registration page.

In my case, [swpm_payment_button id=54] is the shortcode for displaying the button I created.

Automatically created page [Join Us]

Activate the Simple member ship plugin and paste the shortcode into the [Join Us] page, one of the pages that is automatically generated.

Delete all default sales text and change it to sales text that suits your service.

Insert the shortcode in the text like this:

This makes it easy to set up a purchase button.

Click the purchase button

You will be redirected to the PayPal payment screen.

For PayPal personal accounts

The subscription feature cannot be used with a personal PayPal account.

If you see the following message, please check if your account is a business account. If you haven't already, please register as a business account.

I want to open the PayPal payment page in a separate window.

Add [new_window="1"] to the shortcode.

[swpm_payment_button id=54 new_window="1"]

Please change the id to your own button id.

How to use credit card payments with PayPal subscriptions

By default, credit card payments are not enabled for subscription payments. You can enable credit card payments by enabling the setting called Enhanced Recurring Billing.