If you were a web developer who needed to set up a subscribers-only section of a website, where the subscriptions are paid for online (credit card and possibly PayPal), and auto-renew by default, how would you go about it? Would you find a payment gateway that handles auto-renewing subscriptions and use their API to build a little checkout app? Or find an off-the-shelf cart that supports such a gateway, and just set the cart up and enable the gateway? Or is there an altogether better way? [more inside]
posted by bricoleur on Oct 2, 2007 - 6 answers

How common and/or ethical is the practice of auto-renewing a credit card subscription payment without authorization? [more inside]
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium on Sep 6, 2007 - 20 answers