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We wanted to give our customers easier ways to manage their payments.

We now utilize the PayPal Adaptive payments API that makes handling PayPal payments a breeze. The new PayPal Method sends the customer to PayPal to make a pre-authorization for a maximum dollar amount. From then on we just bill your PayPal account every month just like a credit card. When the total billing nears the maximum pre-authorization you will be asked to renew it.

So what’s the benefit? Flexibility.

Since we can now treat your PayPal subscriptions similar to a credit card, users can add and remove services with ease under the same pre-approval.  We can also skip payments and change subscription dollar amounts much easier (Yes we discount services to existing customers from time to time) Creating payment methods is easy from within your Page.ly hosted WordPress website.

But wait, there’s more:

Payment methods can be assigned to individual domains under your account and all subscriptions associated with that domain will use that Payment method. Say you want 1 domain on your corporate credit card, and 1 domain on your personal PayPal… eazy peezy now. ;)

Finally, when purchasing addtional services you will be asked which existing payment method to use.

We’ll be canceling all old school type PayPal Subscriptions over the next 60 days and encouraging users to move to the new Pre-Authorization format.