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I'm looking for software that will let me take someone's credit card, wait a month during a free trial, and then start charging the card automatically each month if they don't cancel. I also need to generate statements that will include the standard monthly cost plus any extra services ordered during the month. I know this is possible with a PayPal Pro account but it's a lot of work and working with PayPal is not easy. It seems like by now someone should have a polished accounting/ecommerce program that will do this.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Steve

steva

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Also, if the customer's credit card has expired, the software automatically generates an email to the customer that payment cannot be made and alerts me.

steva

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Also, if the customer's credit card has expired, the software automatically generates an email to the customer that payment cannot be made and alerts me.

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Sorry, I forgot to ask - are you looking for a hosted solution or do you want to install a shopping cart on your own website? I usually recommend the latter.

If you need a recommendation to a hosting company - TechEvolution.

Plus you would need to decide if you wanted PHP (usually cheaper), ASP (not used as much these days), and then ASP.NET. PHP is usually on a *NIX machine and ASP / ASP.NET is on Windows. If the Windows server has PHP installed, it might work. I have not had the chance to update

steva

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Thanks Corey.

I already have a hosting provider and I use PHP.

There won't be a shopping cart. People will just come to the site and sign up for a $50/month service. I'll be submitting the transaction directly to the gateway with PHP.

I didn't see any description of the API for doing this on the Quantum Payment site. Did I miss it?

Steve