Does Hika do Membership or Recurring Billing?

Can your product do membership or monthly recurring billing?

Also could I configure a page like this with your product: www.mechaniconduty.com/signup/

Could something like this link be set up with your shopping cart?

Also could I configure a page like this with your product: www.mechaniconduty.com/signup/

I would love it if HikaShop would bring online a site membership, i have several clients that want to sell items on there site but as a feature they also want to have the ability to sell memberships.

Your product suite a lot of clients if you added this i am sure it would make my life a load easier, as you already handle the currancy and all the other features.

Nicolas
I just spotted that and am in the process of testing it, if this works BRILLANT I have a clients site i will be loading it into this afternoon...

jooma 2.5.4
Hikashop
Akeeba Subscriptions
Hikashop Akeeba plug

Thanks you for Hikashop Hikashop Akeeba plug!

I have installed Hikashop and Akeeba Subscriptions and the Hikashop Akeeba plug. However, I need some advice on how to test for recurring payments.

On check out, HikaShop sends the user to paypal for the first payment, then recurring subscription payments are handled by Akeeba Subscriptions.

Since this is the case, I activated and setup Akeeba Subscriptions Paypal plugin.

I can see in Akeeba Subscriptions that there is a new subscription made by Hikashop.

I have set the Subscription Length (Days)to 1 (hoping for fast feedback).

However the Subscriptions won't renew for a full month, not one day.

Any suggestions here?

BTW: I'm a former Tienda user. Long Live HikaShop!

Hi

I have a similar issue as I am selling hosting packages and here's my workaround:

• I use Hikashop for the original sale
• I then create a manual order for 30 days in advance using nBill

I have hand written some PHP that displays the Hikashop orders in the front end and highlights them in red if they are more than 30 days old.

I have also hand coded some PHP that does the same for the nBill orders but flags these in red if the invoice date is LESS than 7 days away.

Any nBill orders in red I simply go to the back end and send the invoice to the client.

My intention later is:

• Get the commercial version of Hikashop as it has features I will need as my client base grows
• Get the commericial version of nBill as this also hs features I will need such as recurring billing

Hope that was of some use...

That's great to know Nicolas.

If it would support hosting packages and recuring products that would be great as I would prefer to use only one application for this rather than the two I use right now.

Hi Nicolas,

This is great news. Do you have an ETA on when the next version of Hikashop which will integrate with Akeeba subscriptions would be released?

Thanks,

Dawn

Nicolas,
Ill add another voice into this it would make it a load easier for my clients if i could supply ongoing subscriptions for domains and also hosting.

What would be great is if when a payment is processed we can set it up to communicate with the server to activate the hosting, so PHP code embed into the item on completion of the purchase.

Can't wait for Hikashop to do recurring billing. Will there be a pro-rate option? I've migrated my site to Joomla 2.5.7 and I'm anticipating Hikashop for the ecommerce end. Thanks so much!

Hi Nicolas,

Thought I'd check in and see how that release is coming? I was going to test the integration between Akeeba subscriptions and hikashop this weekend to see how they work together and would love to know if the reoccurring bill is close to ready. Also, how do you plan to handle credit cards? They wouldn't be stored on the server would they?

Thanks,

Dawn

Hi Nicolas,

Pro-Rate is a very important aspect of handling subscriptions / memberships when dealing with reoccurring billing.

Here is an example:

James has a yearly subscription plan which costs $100 and he signed up January 1st 2012. He decides to add another user to the plan July 1st 2012. Instead of getting charged for another year, the addition of a user "upgrades" his current membership plan and pro-rates the charge based on the time left remaining in the subscription. In this case, it would be a charge equivalent to the 6 months remaining or a $50 charge. Then on January 1st he would be charged $200 for the two users subscription plan. If he canceled both subscriptions in March of 2013, he would be refunded for the remaining 9 months for the two users and receive a pro-rated refund of $140.

Hopefully that makes sense, it's very important for keeping the reoccurring billing all synced up.


Best,

Dawn

Wow, that's a good example but a little complex. Pro-rating a subscription can very simple.

If the subscription is 100 a month and you make a sale on the 10th day of the month, the subscription would be pro-rated or "adjusted" to reflect the 10 days the client was not a subscriber. So 100/31 = 3.23, the pro-rated subscription would be 100 -(3.23 x 10) = 67.70. Now, the client would be charged 67.70 Then the following months, the client would be charged the full recurring 100 at the beginning of each month. Of course some months are shorter than others, that would be worked out in the code.

This is pro-rating in it's simplest form and most common and helps to streamline bookkeeping. The program logic is very similar to discounting the first sale of a subscription.

Hope that helps, David