Recurring Payments Through iDEAL

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Topic summary

A Dutch company running a subscription-based food box service seeks a solution for recurring payments using iDEAL, the cheapest payment method in the Netherlands. The core issue: iDEAL traditionally only supports single purchases, not automatic recurring payments needed for subscriptions.

Key developments:

  • Multiple users confirm experiencing the same limitation with Shopify
  • One merchant considered switching to WooCommerce due to this constraint
  • Two potential solutions emerged:
    1. Stripe now offers iDEAL recurring payments (video demonstration provided)
    2. Firmhouse developed a native Shopify app supporting subscriptions with iDEAL, Bancontact, and other local payment methods

Current status: The discussion remains open with recent solutions proposed. Firmhouse’s app is launching soon in the Shopify App Store as a “plug and play” option, with demo videos and documentation available. The solution also supports more complex merchant setups.

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We have a subscription model that we currently sell boxes of food.

Therefore, our users subscribe using weekly auto-recurring payments.

Since our company is based in Holland and all of our customers are Dutch, we are looking for a solution that uses the auto-recurring payments that is already available through Mollie with iDEAL.

iDEAL offers the cheapest payment method but unfortunately, doesn’t offer a recurring payment method, only a single purchase with using iDEAL.

I have seen several similar requests from a couple of years back, and I was wondering if there’s made any progress?

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Hi Ben1000,

do you have any update on that, or did you figure out any way to work around it?

We are currently experiencing the exact same issue with our store.

Thanks in advance and best regards

Florian

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Hi @MrWeinvanHard ,

No, there is no option and frankly we are thinking moving to Woocommerce because of Shopify’s limitations.

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Hey Ben, did you find a solution for this within Shopify at the moment?

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Right now, iDEAL recurring payments is available with Stripe >> https://youtu.be/WMIehEd4xHI

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Hey Ben!

Not sure if still relevant, but:

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Over the past years but especially over the past weeks we haven’t been “sitting still” (as they say in Dutch :sweat_smile: ) at Firmhouse . We have worked on a native Shopify app that supports Shopify Subscriptions and also supports starting subscriptions from an iDeal, Bancontact and other local payment methods. We are launching our app in the Shopify app very soon so that it becomes easy for merchants to get set up and use as “plug and play”, while also retaining our more advanced integration options suitable for larger and more complex merchants and agencies.

If you want to see a local payment method Checkout in action check out the following demo video that I posted on LinkedIn. Also how that interacts with our backend portal: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michiels_i-was-so-excited-with-making-this-shopify-activity-7239763452498522113-8TUZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

We also have an FAQ article in our helpcenter where you can read up on how all of this works and what we’re planning to ship over the next few days and weeks for a Shopify native integration! https://help.firmhouse.com/en/articles/9521251-the-transition-to-native-shopify-checkout

Looking forward to receiving any feedback or questions you may have. Hit me up via LinkedIn or over email! I’m happy to respond to you personally or direct you to someone on my team who can answer your questions in more detail.

Michiel, CTO at Firmhouse

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Thanks!

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