Enable "Paypal Reference Transactions" for an Ecommerce website selling Non-TM physical products

[Modee]

On an older PayPal if you have Payments Pro in place, they might just allow it even if the recent few months are not so very high in sales, but on a new PayPal with not much going on yet, NO.

[magnificent.time]

Yes, indeed, I am aware of the functionality, but since it's a brand new pp account I need to create a revenue of $5k / mo for 3 months in a row, before I can apply for enabling the feature.

I was wondering if there was a workaround

[Modee]

The PayPal Reference Transactions feature is used in conjunction with PayPal Payments Pro to allowed re-billing of prior clients' payments. Basically, via Reference Transactions the system retains the credit card billing info of those who have bought before, and allows you to re-bill that same card - to "reference" it for a subsequent transaction/charge.

[magnificent.time]

Hope everything is doing great here,

I know I haven't been active enough, but that's because I got away from selling on eBay to creating my own ecommerce stores and using different traffic sources to acquire customers.

[OFF-TOPIC: With that being said, let me know if you're still hitting only the eBay market, but want to expand outside of it, if you're selling some legitimate merchandise.]

Now, straight to the point. I opened a new company 2 months ago and I started using almost "a brand new pp account" with not more than $2k total revenue generated in a period of 24months or so, but I want to have a feature called "Paypal Reference Transactions" enabled on my business pp account, but based on my 2 calls with them, I was told that I need to generate $5,000 each month for 3 months in a row in order to apply for that feature to be enabled.

You can check more here => PayPal Reference Transactions for Subscriptions FAQ

What I've tried on my 2nd call with them is that I claimed, that I need the pp account for only Coaching & Digital memberships and NOT for physical products, but they were pretty clear again, that I need to do the 3 month consistent revenue in order to have the feature ENABLED.

I would appreciate some tips, if ANY at all that might work in 2018.

Thanks a lot