First Month Free

How do I setup PayPal in conjunction with AMember so that my new members get their firsth thirty (30) days free and then automatically start getting billed from then on until they cancel?

Thanks

Price: 30
Period: 1 mos
Trial Price: 0
Trial period: 30 days

Recurring: checked

David

don;t forget to make it recurring

Key here that confused me is that with paypal you must check teh recurring box and include at least two payments, otherwise paypal throws a confusong error (doesn;t accept teh $0 trial amount).

As far as I know there's no workaround to make a free trial then a single payment (essentially defer payment).

-- Richard.

Correct, with paypal regular, you need at least 2 payments after the trial.

I have a plugin that gives lifetime access after the 2 payments are made that I give to my premium members: you can read about it here: lifetime plugin

David

I just figure this out too. This is really LAME. I don't want my members to have to be on auto re-occuring payments and I want to offer a 1 month free trial on new subscriptions. So is this impossible to do with aMember using PayPal Standard as the processor? If so, what are the alternatives?

I want to offer a 6 or 12 month membership with a 1 month free trail and no re-occuring payment.

You'll need to use another payment syste- sorry, i havent test this payment model with any others. May work with paypal pro, clickbank or others.

David

I will look into switching to PayPal Websites Payment Pro. One question I have though. If I use Website Payments Pro, do I need to also sign up for the re-occuring service (cost $30.00 more per month) to be able to offer a Free Trial with no re-occuring payments?

With the PayPal Standard, the only way in aMember to get it to work using PayPal is to set up re-occuring billing and then I have to set a limit on the number of re-occuring payments.