Authorize.net and Existing Subscription Agreements

[GraphicBass]

Authorize.net and Existing Subscription AgreementsUsing the Payment Gateway Bundle with Authorize.net only for ARB. Not too familiar with AR…

I’m going to import about 100 existing members into a new site.

How do I tag these members as having existing billing agreements with Auth.net? And how are existing subscriptions continued?

When these member’s credit cards are charged for the next month’s fees, does Authorize.net use the existing subscription agreement for that member? Or will each member have to do a new agreement before any new monthly billing resumes?

How does AN identify the member — using the AN transaction ID or Recurring Billing number..If either is used,iwhere is this data stored?

Thanks

gary

[admin]

Can’t import subscription agreement that easy… it is not a trivial process (payment gateways will need the user to agree to it again). Its best to cancel all the old agreements and start new. Don’t know any other way.

[GraphicBass]

That’s what I was afraid of. OK.

If we don’t cancel the current agreements, will they continue to run, and we’ll just “renew” them (actually, institute a new agreement) when the old runs out?

Just trying to understand so I can explain to a non-technical client.

Thanks.

[GraphicBass]

Another question, please…

I have the subscription start date of current subscribers in the proper field.

Does WP eMember send the “renewal” email to expiring subscribers based on their start date, or do I need to enter the expiration date in one of the two expiry fields?

If there is online documentation for all this, I’ll be happy to look there before asking if you can point me to the right URL.

gary

[admin]

It sends the expiry email when the user’s account is about to expire. We offer a lot of different options so the user’s expiry calculation is done dynamically based on what option you are using.

For example, if you are using “Expire After an Interval” option in the membership level of the member in question then that will use the “start date” to calculate the expiry date.

If you are using “No Expiry or Until Cancelled” option in the level then that listens for when a subscription is cancelled and that will set the expiry

If you are using the “Expire After a Fixed Date” option then the expiry is a hard date which is used.

[GraphicBass]

Thanks for the detailed answer. It helps a lot.

Sounds like Option 1 may be the one for me to use, as I do have the “start date” data die each member.

gary

[Author]

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