Membership based website

I am trying to set up a membership website that users can purchase a membership via credit card then get acccess to a password protected section of the website. There will only be 1 membership type and the info is available will only take up 1 page.

Any suggestions on how to set this up? Is there an add on that anyone has used that already does all this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank You

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From what I am hearing you already have a password protected area of your site. Do you have so much volume that you need a fully automated solution for handling signups? If not I suggest you just create a Paypal "Add to Cart" button.

It's free, will totally support your modest requirements, and lets Paypal deal with all the troublesome merchant processing issues. It will let you create a Signup button with the membership costs and will then send an email to you when a payment is received. You can then set up the account and send it to your new user.

If you need real time processing and instant account creation, you've got a more challenging project. You'll need to register a merchant account somewhere and get to work on some dynamic programming.

Edited by pangea33 on 03/28/09 10:46 PM (server time).

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