How can I charge a recurring monthly subscription fee for my website?

MikeN picture MikeN · Nov 13, 2008 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

My business is setting up online billing using PayPal and Google checkout. I'm looking for the best way to charge a recurring monthly service fee for my website. My site is subscription based and I charge X amount of dollars per month. I want to bill the customer's credit card each month for that monthly fee. The subscriber to the site knows that it is an ongoing monthly service charge when they sign up.

I'm looking for the quickest, easiest, best, most reliable way to charge this recurring fee. I'd prefer to have the monthly fee just show up on their monthly credit card statement like it does on mine for many services I use like Slicehost.

Answer

Dave Markle picture Dave Markle · Jul 12, 2009

NOTE: Google checkout now DOES support recurring payments -- they just implemented it!