Snipcart /recurring payments
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Any thoughts about adding the following to your Memberships add-on to make it easier for monthly recurring memberships?
http://docs.snipcart.com/configuration/recurring-and-subscription-p...
Kind regards,
Brandon
http://docs.snipcart.com/configuration/recurring-and-subscription-p...
Kind regards,
Brandon
Type: | Discussion |
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Status: | In Progress |
it's something I'm aware that Snipcart is now offering, but I've held off adding it for a few reasons.
The Snipcart guys are still calling the feature 'beta', so it's probably a feature that requires a bit more care to add (i.e. on a custom built site).
Also recurring memberships are notoriously difficult to get right, there are many factors and exception cases to handle. The problem is that it may be tricky (or not possible) to manage the ending side of memberships. When a membership payment is cancelled (or fails), we'd want concrete5 to remove members from the group they were added to. There is also a membership page that would need to be added to a site, and that might not handle things in a way that works with with concrete5 - the Snipcart login is separate from concrete5's.
I will re-investigate it at some point, but it simply could be too troublesome to integrate.
Keep in mind that there's actually nothing stopping you from using/testing their recurring feature, you could added plain HTML snippets to set up your membership products and experiment that way, my concern is really just about other parts of the process.
-Ryan