Paylink: Abonnemente
To offer subscriptions within the "Paylink" tool, you must use a payment provider that supports this functionality. We recommend Payrexx Pay for merchants in Switzerland. You can find out which payment providers support subscriptions in the following article:
To offer subscriptions within the "Paylink" tool, you must use a payment provider that supports this functionality. We recommend Payrexx Pay for merchants in Switzerland. You can find out which payment providers support subscriptions in the following article:
Payment Provider Features MatrixSetting Up a Paylink with a Subscription Function
To create a subscription-type Paylink, follow these instructions:
- Navigate to Paylink in the main menu of your zahls.ch account.
- Click the green "Create" button in the top right corner.
- Configure the Paylink using the instructions in the corresponding support article.
Subscription-specific settings
Scroll down to the "Payment information" section and configure the following settings.
1. Payment type
Select "Subscription" as the payment type. Please note that only one payment type can be used. A mix of one-time payments, tokenizations, pre-authorizations, and subscriptions is not possible.
2. Subscription settings
In the subscription settings, you define the following criteria:
- Billing period: The intervals at which the subscription amount will be debited from the customer.
- Subscription term: The total duration for which the subscription will run.
- Cancellation period: How far in advance the customer must cancel the subscription.
Explanation using an example
With these subscription settings, the timeline could look like this:
- 11.07.2026: The customer concludes/purchases the subscription.
- 11.07.2026: The customer is charged the amount for the first time.
- 11.08.2026: The customer is charged the amount for the second time.
- 11.09.2026: The customer is charged the amount for the third time.
- 11.10.2026: The customer is charged the amount for the fourth time.
- 11.11.2026: The customer is charged the amount for the fifth time.
- 25.11.2026: The customer cancels their subscription.
- 11.12.2026: The customer is charged the amount one last time.
To learn how to fill in the remaining details, please refer to the article on the topic of "Paylink".
Do not forget to click the green "Create" button at the bottom of the page to save your settings.
Managing Subscriptions
You can find all existing subscriptions under Payments > Subscriptions. For more information, please refer to the following article:
Subscriptions