I was going through some research and saw a couple of VA's who say that they do automatic payments with some of their clients. I guess the client knows how many hours they want for a month, for however months, and the VA can just do an automatic debit from their credit card or bank account. Like a reccurring payment.


How would you set up something like that? And who would you use...paypal? Merchant account?

Hi Stepfanie,
For the few things I know clients will be paying the same amount for on a recurring basis I set up a PayPal subscription under Merchant Services (I think you need to have a Business account with PayPal to do this, but I could be wrong). It's quick and easy - provides a link which I then email to the client ONCE at the start of the subscription. They click, pay and then PayPal debits their account for the amount I've set that subscription at on the date I've set up [you can do any combination of things, like once every month, once every three months, once a year, etc.]

If the client's payment doesn't clear when it's supposed to, PayPal notifies me and tries again three days later.

It's a painless way to take payments on things that bill at the same amount on a regular basis.

The client or I can cancel the subscription at any time from within our respective PayPal accounts.

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Thanks so much! Exactly what I needed.

This is great information. My business is growing and this was make life so much easier. That's one less thing I'd have to do.

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