Ecommerce system with Subscription functionality?

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eitai2001

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Hi Guys.

Do any of you know of an e-commerce system that offers a subscription function.

I want to offer customers the option to subscribe to something for x amount of times, unlimited times or once off. The trick is, they would need to be able to cancel at any point and if they do ... the website tells the payment gateway to stop payment.

Anyone know anything like that or along those lines that's useable for South African sites?

Been looking, and almost seems I need to create something myself ... but I'm hesitant to create something from scratch where a customer has to input Credit Card details ... and I'm good at coding modules for other systems from scratch.

Any advice :)

Thanks

Regards

Itai
 
afaik Magento eCommerce offers 'recurring' payments. I'm sure the customer can manage their subscription too. Just not sure about the payment gateway integration. Easy with paypal but might be trickier with MyGate/Paygate/VCS
 
Yeah ... I saw the Magento one ... but I want to steer clear of storing CC details on my database ... too much risk with that. MyGate has a recurring billing system which can be API driven ... you just tell it frequency, start and end date. That's what it seemed the Magento one did. (Not going to use PayPal ... too much hassles around it here).

I just wonder if anything supports that ... I see nopCommerce has a recurring product feature ... but again, it stores your details and then handles the monthly billing itself ... too risky.

I just want to make something where the following happens:
1) Customer places order say for frequency of 4.
2) On time 1 (At the same time as point 1 above), the system lets mygate know that there is a current order and 3 more future subscriptions.
3) On time 2, 3 & 4 e-commerce store simply updates to say 2 and 3 have been ordered when the time is right, but does not actually talk to MyGate at all as everything is automated already at MyGate.
4) If the customer decides to cancel, say at time 3, the system reflects that no more orders will take place and sends a message to MyGate to cancel future payments. (I'm still waiting to find out from MyGate if the API supports cancellation of future subscriptions based on a reference number or if you have to manually log into their console to do it).

It's quite simple ... but seems like it's a niche product I need.

@Mike: Thanks, I'll take a look at that :)
 
Alternatively, if I do need to create something from scratch to meet my needs ... what do you think would be the easiest CMS system to integrate with on a ease of module creation basis? Wordpress? Keeping in mind I would have to develop a mini e-commerce system for myself.
 
WooCommerce has subscriptions, I'm not too sure how much functionality they have though..
 
Thanks Rward. Been looking around, and may just build it in ModX using one of their e-commerce system plugins and then just mod it. Also, because it seems relatively easy to create additions for it.
 
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