Hello all. I hope that I am posting this in the right area.

I am ready to start billing my customers. Here is the address of my site:
http://www.elitepreps.com

I was hoping that you might have a suggestion. This is what I am trying to do. . . . . . . .

At this point, I would like to allow people to make a donation to my site on a one time, voluntary basis in any random amount that they choose. Also, I would like for people to be able to sign up to be automatically charged by me once per month for $5. It would be nice if I could have this somewhat similar to the way that my host bills me, where the billing just reoccurs monthly again and again without the customer having to enter their credit card number every time. EVENTUALLY, I would like to get to the point where only "premium" users can get access to some portions of my site, but not all(obviously, premium subscribers would be those who are being charged every month).

Can you give me any ideas on how to implement this.

Thanks in advance,

TC

PayPal will do all that you need.

Also, IPS 2.x now allows for subscription payments with PayPal, 2Checkout, and others.

doesnt your host have the built in shopping cart that supports these features?

Shopping carts is one thing, accepting payments is another.

Like MSNwar said, paypal is what you should look at or a real merchant account.