Recurring payments

[grydstedt]

Is recurring payment on the roadmap for this new API?

[palavilli-godaddy]

Hi Gustav - can you clarify if you are looking for subscription (automated charges) type of recurring payments or non-automated recurring payments that would let you charge your customers as and when needed ?

[grydstedt]

I meant automated recurring charges, but I didnt know it could be done manually as well?
—
Sent from Mailbox for iPhone

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Praveen Alavilli notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hi Gustav - can you clarify if you are looking for subscription (automated charges) type of recurring payments or non-automated recurring payments that would let you charge your customers as and when needed ?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#3 (comment)

[palavilli-godaddy]

ok - so the support for automated recurring charges (aka subscriptions) in the new REST APIs are in the roadmap but AFAIK they are post july (but no specific date yet).

You can use the vault API to save your customer's credit cards and use them to charge them later - this is what we call as non-automated/manual recurring charges. Support for non-automated recurring payments using PayPal Account (Wallet) is in July release AFAIR.

So until then, please use one of the existing products - The PayPal Payment Standard provides simple button integrations for subscriptions. You can also use Express Checkout APIs for an API solution. Adaptive Payments API offers something called Preapprovals. So pick and choose the one that meets your needs.

[grydstedt]

Thanks!

[eistrati]

Just following up on this question ... 9 months later still nothing released yet?

[avidas]

As of right now, Vault would be best way to go about this if you are doing REST, else via our classic APIs as mentioned above. Recurring and Subscription are on their way to REST, although we cannot provide an ETA yet.

[edimoldovan]

Hi everyone,

Could anyone explain in a little more detail how recurring payments could be done with Vault? A little code sample would be even more welcome.

Thx!

[avidas]

Hey @edimoldovan when you store a card in vault, it gives you back the card id and valid_until. Then on a recurring basis, you could use something similar to this snippet to charge the stored card while it is still valid. Recommended practice is to pass in a unique payer id (uuid/email etc) while storing the card and that you send in every time you charge the customer/subscriber.

[j0k3r]

I think this issue should be re-open and kept open until recurring payment are available.

[eistrati]

Second that! 👍

[karolyi]

+1

[avidas]

Reopening to track recurring payments here as api enhancement

[knagode]

+1 for recurring payments

[encodi]

+1 for recurring payments

[peterkovacs]

Support for non-automated recurring payments using PayPal Account (Wallet) is in July release AFAIR.

Is this still planned? I don't see anything in the current REST API docs about this. It seems you can only vault credit cards, and PayPal account payments require a customer approval for each payment.

[andreoav]

+1 for recurring payments.

[avidas]

Everyone, the subscription APIs have had their public release last week, and we are working to add support in the sdks. Thank you for your patience!

[ValentinFunk]

You might want to remove it from the issues/upcoming features
https://github.com/paypal/rest-api-sdk-python/wiki/Existing-Issues-and-Unavailable%5CUpcoming-features

[avidas]

We will update it with the sdks that are currently supporting the feature. Thanks for pointing this out.

[ulkas]

how about billing plans and agreements? as far as i understand, this is the way to do recurring payments with the new REST API. just missing the sdk files, but it shall work (i'm on my half way to implement this in php, will share the code in my repositories in few days).

the point is to create a billing plan, which includes the prices, annual dates and cycles etc... than, to create a billing agreement with customer based on this plan, where customers visits the link returned by this agreement and confirms the billing plan (ie recurring payment). more at https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/api/#billing-plans-and-agreements

edit: my implementation of recurring payments can be found here: https://github.com/ulkas/paypal-rest-api-php-personal