I tested a plan, for 1 month and it should renew itself each month with an automatic payment through Authorize/Paypal.
I have tested it with Authorize, and the plan expired after 1 month but the ARB still continued.
As far as I can see the plan itself is set up correct with these variables:
Pricing tab:
Pricing/validity: Always same
Regular price: $4.99
Regular validity: 1 month
Total num occur: 0
Prorate: yes
Bonus time: no
Renewable in adv: 1 mo
Grace period: none
Manual renewal: renewal starts at exp or at payment date whichever happens last
Auto renewals: Yes: subscribe user to ARP
I also have a question about the setup in Authorize payment gateway area. For the silent post URL, should that be https: since the payment page is secured? does it matter if someone were to subscribe on the website through http://
www.sitenameex.com VS
sitenameex.com?
Do I need to setup any other variables in the Authorize merchant panel (the pdf setup guide didn't specify much), such as receipt url, response url, etc?
On a somewhat unrelated note, I had setup a testing plan with same variables above except it was setup as Free (price: 0) and renew ever 2 hours and renewal in adv only after expiration. When subscribed to that the user received about 40 duplicate emails that were for Manual renewal confirmation. Not sure if this was a bug or logic error caused it.