monthly PayPal purchasing

[mattwidge]

I'm making a web-application that requires 1 single $10 payment on the 2nd of each month.

How I want it to work is this:
1- User signs up & get's 1 month's cycle free
2- Then, access is disabled until they purchase access again (hence, the monthly)
3- Once Payment has been made (via PayPal), a script is run, telling DB that payment has been made
4- Access is granted again.

[ripken204]

i would say to use PayPal IPN to notify your server of payments made.
then you could run a cron job to go through the users in your database, check when they last paid, and disable them if need be.

[blue-eye-labs]

I actually wanted to know something similar to this. Thanks.

[mattwidge]

Is there a PayPal service thingy that allows people to send a pre-determined amount & returns a custom URL?

[criterion9]

Is there a PayPal service thingy that allows people to send a pre-determined amount & returns a custom URL?

Do you mean the PayPal IPN?

[mattwidge]

Yeah, sorry. I hadn't looked in to the Paypal IPN properly.