UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Subscription’s Auto Return URL for PayPal

What is the “auto return” URL we are suppose to use with PayPal for our subscriptions?

FROM: \templates\default\subscription_confirm.tpl

It looks like

Though IIRC, the user should be sent back to the page they came from (see below), so the UBB.threads page can deal with the returned values of either;
"thanks" - thanks for the payment.
or
"cancel" - process was terminated or quit.

Knowing this, that return page would most likely be:
for Spider-friendly URLs - /ubbthreads.php/ubb/subscription_process
or
for Spider-friendly URLs - /ubbthreads.php?ubb=subscription_process

Since its been over a year since I last updated this specific code, I've done some quick refresher-reading on the topic.

The PayPal developer docs says:
SOURCE: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/admin/checkout-settings/#customize-the-checkout-experience

And IIRC, as of UBB.threads 7.6.2, the return URL is sent to PayPal at the time of the transaction request. When the PayPal transaction is finished, that URL is used along with the PayPal results.

Basically, there is no need to enable "auto return" (or anything special) on your PayPal account, other than having a PayPal Business account and allowing payments to be accepted.

Prior versions of UBB.threads (7.6.1 and older) required PayPal "auto return" to be enabled since that portion of UBB.threads remained unwritten, and the user would just be dumped in to either a PayPal "thank you" page with zero links on it, or they would be returned to a broken UBB.threads page where they needed to contact the forum admin to manually update the subscription.

Thank you. I will turn their auto return setting to off and give that a try.

https://www.paypal.com/businessmanage/preferences/website