I'm putting together a "Recurring Payments for Contribution, Donation" web page and some of the code is at the end of this message... When I try to pay $1.00 for a 1 month installment, at the check out.... I get the following error message: "The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again." When I try to pay $1.00 for 2 months installments ....hey it works fine. My question...how can I get it to work, even if the visitor put "1" in as their choice of week, month or quarterly. Or...is 1 week, 1 month and 1 quarter...not a workable option. Apparently for the different options (week, month, quarterly)...if you only try for just 1 installment, it will not work. If you do more that 1 installment they will work. Recap: If I use only "1" as an option for the number of weeks, months or quarters...I got this error message: "The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again." If I use any number larger that 1, or 2 or higher number, it works fine. I thought I had I working with "1" as the choices, I might have messed it up. So, how can I get it to work, even if the visitors put "1" in as their choice of week, month or quarterly. Or...is 1 week, 1 month and 1 quarter...not a workable option. One last question....should I set the "src" to "0" in <input name="src" type="hidden" id="src" value="1">, so that the subscription payment does not continue after the cycle, it will just stop ================================================================================== <form name="recurring3" onsubmit="return checkForm2(this);" method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"> <div align="left"> <strong> <spanclass="style2"> </span> </strong> <u> <font face="Arial"> MONTHLY </font> </u> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td noWrap width="323"> <font face="Arial">$  </font> <font face="ms sans serif" size="3"> <input type="textfield" size="12" name="a4"> </font> <font face="Arial">for   </font> <font face="ms sans serif" size="3"> <input type="text fields" size="3" name="srt"> </font> <font face="Arial">months.    </font> </td> <td> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <input class="formbox_button" id="Submit" type="submit" value="Set Up Monthly Plan" name="Submit"> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <input type="hidden" value="1" name="p4"> <input type="hidden" value="M" name="t4"> <input type="hidden" value="1" name="src"> <input type="hidden" value="1" name="sra"> <input type="hidden" value="_xclick-subscriptions" name="cmd"> <input type="hidden" value="name@thename.com" name="business"> <input type="hidden"value="http://www.thename.com/ thank_you_ donation.html" name="return"> <input type="hidden" value="Monthly Contribution to the Name" name="item_name"> <input type="hidden" value="1" name="no_note"> <input type="hidden" value="USD" name="currency_code"></font></div> </form> ================================================================================== Thanks...for your help.... :-) Larry

I could not get by the single recurring issue. I can now see that any recurring payment has to be more than one, and if you only have one installment or payment....it is not recurring. Paypal's recurring payment system apparently does not accept or process just one (1) installment/payment. It works fine with 2 or more, but not with just 1. Their recurring payments system, must have more that one installment or payment, to truly be reoccuring....the payment must happen more than once.

One way...I got around it....by switching the text boxes for the number of weeks (and months, and quarters) to "drop down boxes" with the pre numbered options. I set up the multiple weekly options (2 -52). I did not use the "1" in any option. This same type of "drop down" was used for the monthly (2-12) & quarterly (2-4). I also indicated in the page, that if anyone wants to make just a single or just a 1.....weekly, monthly or quarterly payment, they should use the "Anytime Contributions" payment option.

Another way....
I kept the text boxes and used javascripts for the following...:
This is how I have set up these recurring payment items (i.e. weekly, monthly, quarterly):
1. If the visitor leaves the amount blank, a alert comes up : "Please fill in an amount."
2. If the visitor leaves the number of weeks blank, a alert comes up: "Please fill in the number of weeks, must be more that 1. Recurring payments must have more that one weekly installment."
3. If the visitor puts "1" in as an option for the number of weekly installments, a alert comes up: "Please fill in the number of weeks, must be more that 1. Recurring payments must have more that one weekly installment."
4. This is the same alerts for the monthly and quarterly recurring options. It's set up with alerts for blank amounts, blank number of installments and also is the visitor indicated just 1 installment. Again any installment..2 or more works.
For these two remaining items, the one "ANYTIME CONTRIBUTIONS" and the ANNUAL $ once each year options, they just straight one time payments and nothing to do with recurring payment. These items, are not installments, and are made with one payment.

This all took a while.
:-(
Larry



Larry Noack

Hello,

Have you tried using 'srt' and value of '1'? or making the 'src' a checkbox with the value of one? You would then just put texting to check the box for recurring donations.

Stephen Ivaskevicius
PayPal/eBay, Inc.
www.paypal.com/pdn

Hi all,

I am still facing the same problem even I have 1 month subcription and 10 Days Free trial. I have tried all the things discussed above. Any body any idea.

Thnaks

Mudassar Ijaz

after looking over subscriptions that work I see something different.

<input type="hidden" value="1" name="src">
<input type="hidden" value="1" name="sra">

I have no idea what the "sra" is but I removed it and made sure the "src" was value "1" and it worked fine.

Steve
Primeau’s Website Design
http://www.primeaus.com/

I have checked this code but its not working can you Please tell me that where i am failing. i have copied the code and run at my server but after doing the login by a devloper account its giving me error.


<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Andrew Chang
[br]You are missing some fields and using some bad ones. Below is a working form



<form name="recurring3" onsubmit="return checkForm2(this);" method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr">
<strong>
<spanclass="style2">
</span>
</strong>
<u>
<font face="Arial"> MONTHLY
</font>
</u>
<table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td noWrap width="323">
<font face="Arial">$
</font>
<font face="ms sans serif" size="3">
<input type="textfield" size="12" name="a3">
</font>
<font face="Arial">for
</font>
<font face="ms sans serif" size="3">
<input type="text fields" size="3" name="srt">
</font>
<font face="Arial">months.
</font>
</td>
<td><input type="hidden" value="1" name="p3">
<input type="hidden" value="M" name="t3">
<input type="hidden" value="1" name="src">
<input type="hidden" value="1" name="sra">
<input type="hidden" value="_xclick-subscriptions" name="cmd">
<input type="hidden" value="name@thename.com" name="business">
<input type="hidden"value="http://www.thename.com/ thank_you_ donation.html" name="return">
<input type="hidden" value="Monthly Contribution to the Name" name="item_name">
<input type="hidden" value="1" name="no_note">
<input type="hidden" value="USD" name="currency_code">
<font face="Arial" size="3">
<input class="formbox_button" id="Submit" type="submit" value="Set Up Monthly Plan" name="Submit">
</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<font face="Arial" size="3">
</font></div>
</form>


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