Connecting paypal and autoresponder?

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Warning: this is potentially a stupid question -- set flame throwers off

I have a product that I plan to deliver via an autoresponder -- monthly installments. So what I want to do:

* When a buyer pays they either automatically get subscribed to the auto responder or they have to subscribe themselves -- of course I'll still want the double optin.

* When a person cancels the recurring payment they automatically get unsubscribed from the autoresponder so they no longer get the product installments.

Questions:

* Can this be done?
* If so, which autoresponder company supports this?
* Do I need a 3rd party software to connect the two subsystems -- paypal and the autoresponder?

Thanks for any/all insights and comments.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #autoresponder #connecting #paypal
  • I think you need a third party app like DLGuard to help with this.

    I know for sure DL Guard works with GetResponse.

    Paypal without management software is a terrible thing. With DLGuard it's awesome
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    • I use AWeber and they actually just recently released a video showing Step-by-Step how to integrate with PayPal. It was super easy.

      Hope this helps!

      Good luck!
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    • I suppose aweber has this message about things not working for recurring payments because there's no way to handle UNSUBSCRIBES. How to get it to deliver content based off of the subscribe date+time is a solved problem, afaik.

      Thanks to everyone who responded -- still looking. I may be able to set up something hacky with gmail and mail processing rules. If someone cancels a recurring payment presumably paypal will send email as well, right?
  • Yeah but for us non-technical peeps...how exactly do we do...um...THAT ^^^^

    LOL
  • Incidentally, is there a way to prevent people from signing up to the email autoresponder w/o paying? I want to allow signups *only* from paypal emails, as shown in the video The Schwa posted.

    THANKS!
  • Joe,

    You should be able to get a custom IPN solution to work w/ GetResponse API.

    It would flow like:

    Pay - IPN - Add to GR via API
    Cancel - IPN - Remove via GR API

    Problem w/ this, anyone could join/rejoin if they know the GR account name. Which is easy to find...

    Better solution: A private blog. If they cancel, blog deletes their access. This would also allow people past content if you want or only access to current content.

    Garrie
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    • I think I don't want this solution because I want everyone to get the newest content each N days. That way not everyone gets the same content all the time. An autoresponder seemed like a natural approach.

      I can't believe this is an unsolved problem.... Jeez

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  • I know, right??!?
  • I'm in contact with Mike Lantz, he's the author of WSOPro. It seems that WSOPro may be able to do what I want -- I'll report back here.
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