# GoDaddy Website Payment Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godaddy-website-payment-question/963260>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godaddy-website-payment-question/963260 "2022-04-22T15:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godaddy-website-payment-question/963260/1 "2022-04-22T15:31:00Z")

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I realize this is weirdly specific, but I’m hoping someone has already solved this for me. GoDaddy customer support can’t really help me. Trust me, I’ve tried.

I manage a website on GoDaddy for a local club. It currently has no e-commerce, but I need to add the ability for a member to renew their membership online using a credit card. I figured out how to do that, but I have now been told that members have to be able to check a box and their membership will be renewed automatically without them having to do anything.

I assumed there was some way to do this using the GoDaddy website builder toolkit, but according to GoDaddy support, it’s not possible, even using their Square payment plugin, which means I have to link to some external payment system that uses credit cards AND has a feature that allows for auto-renewals.

Does anyone know a fairly easy way to do this? BTW, I am not a programmer, so it can’t involve coding something within GoDaddy.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godaddy-website-payment-question/963260/2 "2022-04-22T16:06:07Z")

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So why not link to an external payment system that uses credit cards and has a feature that allows for auto-renewals? For example Paypal?

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