One of the things I was aware of when I set up The Journey Files with the system that gathers 'pay what you want' subscriptions was that it only worked with credit cards, and didn't allow PayPal integration. At the time I decided that was good enough.
But thanks to Cranky Jim in the comments section, I was encouraged to add PayPal support as well.
So I spent an hour or two looking for a solution that would allow interested people to 'pay what they want' with PayPal, and have their email address automagically added to the Mailchimp mailing list.
I eventually found a solution that I created, implemented, and tested. It worked! The test allowed a friend of mine to subscribe and be automatically added to the mailing list.
So Cranky Jim, now you can sign up using PayPal. Thanks for the support, and the encouragement to integrate other solutions into the same system, to increase the opportunities for more people to subscribe. I'll buy you a beer or something when we catch up in Melbourne!
Now to set up similar integration to automagically unsubscribe a person from the mailing list when they cancel their subscription....
Update:
I found that the integration adds ALL those who use PayPal to pay me for anything, and it doesn't differentiate between the different payment methods or reasons, and there's no way around that. So I've had to disable the integration and will just add people manually when they use PayPal. I'm ok with that.
GREAT STUFF ALLAN!
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