Recurring Payment Questions

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I'm about to add recurring payments to an Ubercart Drupal install and was looking for advice on two areas:

1. I'm hoping to add recurring payments for membership subscriptions for both Credit Card and PayPal support. The uc_recurring module appears to support the former. Poking around the forums a bit, it looks like there's some efforts to add PayPal support. I was wondering what the best module strategy would be given today's availability to support this requirement. If something is close, but requires some final development and/or testing, I can probably accommodate that as well in order to bring this project to fruition.

2. Regarding the uc_recurring module configuration, is it wiser to create a Product that has an initial purchase price (say $100), and then configure uc_recurring to charge the initial recurring fee after a certain time interval (say 1 month) after purchase; or is it wiser to configure uc_recurring to charge the recurring fee immediately at time of purchase and, if so, should the product price be set to zero to make sure the customer isn't double-charged?

Any feedback is appreciated!

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I don't have much to offer re: #1, b/c I'm not aware of what's going on with PayPal support (though I agree it's needed). For #2, I think my original idea was that you set the product price to the standard interval price and don't charge the first recurring payment until the interval has passed. So, the first payment would be the product price. This helps by keeping $0 products out of your catalog.

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Thanks for the reply, Ryan.