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Duplicate Subscription Purchases

  • January 8, 2025
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Our company offers product training subscriptions to our customers and partners and we are in the process of implementing PayPal to enable self-serve purchasing. We discovered through testing that a user is able to purchase a subscription plan multiple times which puts both us and our customers as risk of losing revenue, increased administrative tasks and an unpleasant experience for both sides. Ideally, when a user purchases a limited time subscription, they should not be able to re-purchase the same item until the initial subscription expires. The system should alert them they are already enrolled in an active subscription and not allow them to proceed with adding it to their cart.

Overall, I think subscriptions need a little more love! They are a very useful tool for our company to help our customers get access to the training they need with little friction. 

JUJanet
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  • Novice III
  • February 27, 2025

We are struggling through our testing with Subscription Plans. From what I’ve read, most aspects of Subscription Plans require you to use Stripe as your payment gateway instead of PayPal, I’m not sure if that would impact the ability to re-purchase. Since we are already using PayPal, we are not currently able to change to Stripe, so we are unable to turn on Subscription Plans. Also, we have found that there is a problem in reporting, where you cannot determine if a course was purchased as a standalone or if it was purchased as part of a subscription, which provides complications for us when we bill monthly. It becomes a manual tracking problem when you attempt to scale Subscription Plans. 


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