Membership Billing Tool

Added: 08/09/2010 | Updated: 8 Years Ago

Billing Tool Overview

The billing tool allows you to charge for membership to your site.

Several payment processors are supported.
Recurring payments and trial payments are supported. The options available depend on the payment processor being used. Each payment processor has it's own steps that need to be taken in order to ensure that payments are tracked properly.
The payment buttons you create will appear at the bottom of the order page.
The order page code can be used to place the button anywhere on the order page. If this code is used, then the button will disappear from the bottom of the order page.
You can add a custom order button when editing a billing record.

Cancelations

You can cancel your subscription or Upgrade your membership by going to your-domain.com/admin/billing

Related Tools

The billing tool has several other tools related to it that require the billing tool.

External Billing

External billing allows you to sale items such as products, downloads, services, fees, basically anything you want.

Commission Tracking

Support for Other Payment Processors

If there is a payment processor that you want to use that we do not support you have a few options.

Upgrade Request

For $150 we will add any payment processor you request as an upgrade request. It takes 1-3 weeks to add a new payment processor to your system using this route.

Using Your Own Developer

We provide documentation of all of our API's, php objects, database tables and files. We also have other training resources. We have an API specifically for creating a member that is easy to use. If your developer is proficient with php and has already done projects with the payment processor you want to use they will not have a problem setting it up for you.

Alternative Billing

If you wish to use a payment processor that is not supported alternative billing might be a solution. Alternative billing is easy to setup and works with any payment processor. Once turned on you are given a URL to use as your thank you page with your payment processor. This is not the most secure method, and does not work if you have multiple memberships or commission. However, this can be a simple solution if you do not need these things.
WARNING: If alternative billing is on payments ARE NOT recorded in the Members Area. IF YOU ARE NOT USING ALTERNATIVE BILLING DO NOT TURN IT ON.

Accounting

The accounting tool allows you to track revenue, expenses, vendors and money accounts.

Statistics

Manually Marking Members as Paid

NOTE: If you are using direct payment then many of the things described in this web page are different. Please read the details under direct payment page to understand how billing works with direct payment.