I waiting for it too. And I REALLY hope that updates will be more frequent in the future, and you will keep the community up to date on everything that's going on. Please only promise new features if you can really make it ready by that time. This is starting to look like a very bad strategy....

@BruceMarriott Your point is completly understandable too. And sorry Nirvana team for being a bit harsh. :)

I think we will get a few other new features along with paypal. They must be so busy working on them all day, that they even forget completly about the community :) I am very excited about the next patch.

Anyway, I think popping up on the forum at least every day, and answer our questions wouldn't hurt.

Update: The $29.00 automatic payment has now gone through - about 6.5 hours after I received the first (yearly recurring setup) PayPal email. And the Nirvana My Account page now shows me as paid up until 15 September 2013.

So that's all good - It all works and I hope others have the same positive experience.

Good to hear that payment via PayPal is now possible!

Unfortunately, PayPal isn't working here. When I'm trying to make the purchase, I'm getting the error message "payment cannot be processed - please return to Nirvanahq, Inc and choose another option"...

I have a German PayPal account - could it have something to do with that?

@BruceMarriott - we request the money, then PayPal pulls it from the customer's account when they see fit. I have no idea why it took so long in your (and 3 others) case - it was unusual for sure - it's usually in the 3 - 10 minute range.

@francus - the unverified is simply an "oh s..t, we forgot to do the bank account verification" until we noticed it when going live (we work out of the sandbox accounts for testing) - it'll be verfied as soon as PayPal drops the test deposits into the account so we can flip that flag - probably in the next day or two.

@spacebear - I have no idea why you got the message you did, perhaps you could try again. Maybe PayPal was having their own issues (might also explain the 6.5 hours for some of those payments), who knows.

@Relevart - a common reason to not announce something as soon as it's available is to let a few people use the system in "Live" mode by discovery to ensure there aren't any problems before a massive hit that might take place after an announcement. That way should there be an issue, there would be a rather limited impact.

dbm

@spacebear - Whatever the reason, it's nothing we can see as to what is happening - since it never gets to our merchant account - or have control over, AFAIK. Perhaps there is a setting in your PayPal account or something of the sort that prevents you from creating a recurring payment profile in US dollars.

You could contact PayPal and see if they can give you a reason as to why it is happening. Let me know what you find out - although you might want to use our support system for this kind of account conversation.

David

And in the never ending saga of why PayPal is a PITA - particularly for our German based crowd - here's an interesting tidbit and why I suspect @spacebear and a couple other German PP user attempts have failed...


Edited from a support ticket response...

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I've found out from checking some developer posts & having created a simulated German customer in the sandbox and tried various options there that there is a problem with using recurring billing, with express checkout, only for German PayPal customers.

Here's the real joy - this was a reported issue with this back in 2009 - apparently never resolved - although I have a ticket into PayPal to see what if anything has changed - screen shot attached.

Because of what we need to do, the rep's proposed 'solution' to use subscriptions rather than recurring payments doesn't work for us (or for most of the people on the thread).

I mean PayPal basically crippled the "subscriptions" option to force merchants to pay extra for their "Pro" solution and to use recurring billing capabilities - rant over.

Anyway, let me think about this a bit - and hopefully get some answer back from PayPal that isn't nonsense. We'll figure out how to get your money, no worries :-)

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Thanks,
David