Subscription via paypal no longer working due to reconfiguration of paypal account
 

Looking for some simple suggestions guys and perhaps confirmation that I have correctly identified my problem.

For a while now the subscription system has been working fine using my (current) paypal account.

Users pay for one of several subscriptions and their membership status is modified appropriately.

Just today I had a user complain that their member status had reverted after they had placed a renewing subscription (I don't use automatic renewals and people just renew themselves each year)

I was surprised becuase his user account only showed the expired one.

In Paypal his payment did indeed show and was successful and included a receipt and everything.

Then I realised that I had set up some merchant services to take paypal payments from a cart.

I take it that if the paypal account is configured to "return" the client to somewhere then the vBulletin never sees the transaction again.

The fields I changed to set up the merchant side of the paypal account were:

Auto Return is turned on and a Return URL is specificed to the cart not the vbulletin - in the past this was turned off because I had never had cause to use it to get vB to work with subscriptions.

Payment Data Transfer (Optional) is also ON

Am I right in suspecting that these options will break the process of paypal subscriptions in vB>

TIA
Will

ps I should also say that I am currently registering a new paypal account for the cart and will return the original one for the forums once I have everything sorted out. Just need confirmation that this is the best way to resolve this issue/proceed.