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Authorize.net Trial Period

  1. This may be a question for the developer of the Authorize.net plugin but when using this plugin, setup for a specific form, I select trial period by checking the enable box and only the trial amount appears. Opposed to doing the same with Paypal and a trial amount and trial period drop down appears.

    When checking the source code of the page, I can see that the trial period select box is commented out "<!-- -->". I am hesitant to edit the plugin as I presume this was commented out for a reason.

    I have tested a transaction to see if it defaulted to one month however the payment start date appears as the same date the form was submitted, highlighting the fact that it seems to be ignoring any trial period.

    Can anyone provide an advice or assistance as to how I can get this to work.
    Thanks!

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday March 12, 2013 | Permalink
  2. I will have someone check in on this for you on Thursday. Thank you for your patience.

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday March 14, 2013 | Permalink
  3. Thank you. I'm not sure if the code with trial period length could be un-commented and be stable. Any feedback would be great so I can get this running.

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday March 14, 2013 | Permalink
  4. The difference between Authorize.net and PayPal is that Authorize.net doesn't allow you to specify a trial period that is different than your billing cycle. It only allows you to specify how many cycles you want to provide as a trial. For example, if you specify your billing cycle as 1 month, your trial period is forced to be 1 month as well. What you can configure is how many 1 month cycles will be part of the trial.
    We have decided to disable that option (hence the commented out code) so that the number of cycles would always be one. The commented out code is something that will be removed.

    Posted 11 years ago on Thursday March 14, 2013 | Permalink
  5. Thanks for the response.

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday March 19, 2013 | Permalink

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