recurring_and_direct_charge.md

Mollie Recurring

Here you can see an example of how easy it is to use Mollie recurring payments.

Create a customer

First of all you need to create a new customer (step 1), this is pretty straight forward

$customer = Mollie::api()->customers->create([
    'name'  => 'John Doe',
    'email' => 'john@doe.com',
]);

Initial Payment

After creating the user, you can start a payment (step 3), it's important to set sequenceType to first, this will generate a mandate on Mollie's end that can be used to do direct charges. Without setting the method the payment screen of Mollie will display your methods that support recurring payments.

$payment = Mollie::api()->payments->create([
    'amount' => [
        'currency' => 'EUR',
        'value'    => '25.00', // You must send the correct number of decimals, thus we enforce the use of strings
    ],
    'customerId'   => $customer->id,
    'sequenceType' => 'first',
    'description'  => 'My Initial Payment',
    'redirectUrl'  => 'https://domain.com/return',
    'webhookUrl'   => route('webhooks.mollie'),
]);

// Redirect the user to Mollie's payment screen.
return redirect($payment->getCheckoutUrl(), 303);

Direct Charge

After doing the initial payment, you may charge the users card/account directly. Make sure there's a valid mandate connected to the customer. In case there are multiple mandates at least one should have status set to valid. Checking mandates is easy:

$mandates = Mollie::api()->mandates->listFor($customer);

If any of the mandates is valid, charging the user is a piece of cake. Make sure sequenceType is set to recurring.

 $payment = Mollie::api()->payments->create([
    'amount' => [
        'currency' => 'EUR',
        'value'    => '25.00', // You must send the correct number of decimals, thus we enforce the use of strings
    ],
    'customerId'   => $customer->id,
    'sequenceType' => 'recurring',
    'description'  => 'Direct Charge',
    'webhookUrl'   => route('webhooks.mollie'),
]);

Like any other payment, Mollie will call your webhook to register the payment status so don't forget to save the transaction id to your database.