Changing location of HostBill question

[jcats]

Hello,

Had a quick question, we need to move our HostBill install off our main domain and move it to a subdomain.  Will this break PayPal subscriptions?  I thought I remember reading on HB's old forums that you would have to cancel all subscriptions and have the customer create them again.

Thanks!

[tallship]

Did you discover whether you need to have the customer recreate those subscriptions or not?

Just thinkiing things through, I think you would, because there's the PayPal IPN that you can enter in as an URL - you can only enter in one IPN though, and although this is what is going on with subscriptions you have for customers, it's not really the IPN.

I know that sounds confusing. The IPN is the instant payment notification. You set an URL at a shopping cart if that cart isn't smart enough to send out an URL for itself with respect to each transactions - HostBill is, so you never enter an actual IPN, the equivilant of that is sent to PayPal, along with the transaction, each time you process a transaction.

So if you change the host, then you change that URL where your HostBill is listening, and PayPal only knows the old URL. I don't actually know if this will break subscriptions or not. I think it will, because PayPal stores this URL and then automatically contacts your HostBill at this (for lack of a better term) custom IPN URL to let your HostBill know that it has charged them for another month of service.

If you're HostBill isn't listening there any longer, because you moved domains or hosts, then HostBill wouldn't know, then would be likely to suspend, then terminate that account for non-payment, right?

Just thinking outloud here I'm interested in knowing too, although I'm not looking at moving anything around.