StoreFront 6 Service Pack 8
Recurring Billing Integration
As part of Service Pack 7, support has been added for products that are billed in
multiple increments. These often include subscription products
or items with service fees that are billed periodically. For an annual newspaper
subscription, for example, a merchant might bill the subscriber $5.00 a month for
12 months. To communicate these recurring charges to the shopper, a merchant can
configure the Recurring Payment Options for a product. Then, the merchant can
elect to display the Subscription Price and Period on their Catalog and Product
Pages (example: $5.00/Monthly). Merchants can also configure the label displayed
for the Subscription Price. A Price can still be charged for the product. This
might be used to collect a setup fee.
Merchants who are processing payments using VeriSign payment gateway services,
can elect to have the recurring payment automatically setup within their VeriSign
recurring billing system. In this case, any upfront charges will be passed to the
VeriSign payment gateway services for processing and a separate recurring payment
will be setup within the VeriSign recurring billing system.
For merchants processing with another gateway or who are processing credit
cards offline, the Subscription Price and Period can be displayed to the
shopper, but the recurring payment must be initiated manually.
The context-based help files accessed through the Merchant Tools have
also been updated to record the new functionality. Refer to the help
files for more information.
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