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I'm pretty sure Paypal does have recurring payments. I think they call it a subscription payment.

AFAIK this is not available through their gateway - you have to send the user to PayPal.com and even then I believe they have to use a PayPal account to subscribe.

If there's a way around this I would love to know.

subscriptions are available through the direct api (your site) and express api (paypal hop) if using websites payments pro. however, if you offer direct, paypal requires that you offer express as well.

payments standard only supports something similar to express, although it's a totally different beast.

That is awesome, thank you.

They have a NVP API for subscription payments.

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c...

I haven't tried it yet though.

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