Notification after subscription through authorize.net - notifications

I am a developer and set up authorize.net for subscription. Suppose I subscribed for 12 months from January. I can get transaction id and payment status and other necessary information on January or after first payment. But how can I get the transaction id and payment status and other necessary information on 2nd, 3rd, 4th payment and so on.

If you want to be notified of payments and retrieve all of the relevant information about them in an automated fashion use their Silent Post functionality. It is like Paypal's IPN as it will post transaction information to your website so you can record it in your database in real time.

You will get this information inside Authorize.Net Merchant Interface : https://account.authorize.net
Under the
Recurring Billing
option, inside the
Transaction Status Report
page you will find the
Monthly Transaction Status Dashboard
which contains the Subscriptions transaction details
There is also an ARB Email Notifications options to get this transactions in email, under the Recurring Billing option

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How to test the 'unpaid' and 'incomplete_expired' status in subscriptions using stripe test cards?

I want to test the following scenarios which are included in the stripe subscription status documentation.
Can anyone please suggest a test card in stripe to test it?
Scenario 1
Incomplete_expired- The initial payment on the subscription failed and no successful payment was made within 23 hours of creating the subscription. These subscriptions do not bill customers. This status exists so you can track customers that failed to activate their subscriptions.
Scenario 2
Unpaid- The latest invoice hasn’t been paid but the subscription remains in place. The latest invoice remains open and invoices continue to be generated but payments aren’t attempted.
You should use a test card where the payment will be declined for the initial subscription invoice payment. There's a full list here, but 4000000000000002 will return a generic card_declined error which should be sufficient for this testing case.
Have a look at the SO question: Simulate Stripe Subscription Renewal Failure
The idea is to create a user with a valid payment method and then change the payment method later on via the dashboard for example.
For incomplete_expired - just pay with card which need 3d secure like 4000002500003155 and don't make card authentication, subscription will move to incomplete after 3 hours, after 23 hours subscription status will move from incomplete to incomplete_expired.
For unpaid status Stripe says some additional setting should be applied
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-status

Track magazine subscriptions with shopify

My client sells magazines. However, for cash-flow purposes they only take a payment once for one- and two-year subscriptions.
e.g. You buy "one year" at checkout, and for the next 12 months, the warehouse sends you magazines.
I've seen recurring order plugins for Shopify, but nothing that fits the bill. The ideal workflow would go something like:
Customer buys 1-year subscription
Customer's magazine shows on a pick-list every month for the next 12 months (the end of the subscription period)
Cancelling a subscription triggers a partial refund
Is there anything in Shopify that does this, or will we need custom development?
Shopify will handle the payment and refund scenarios. In addition you will need to keep track of subscribers. You can create a simple App that maintains a database with the ability to query current subscribers, using webhooks to track purchases and refunds.

Paypal Rest API - Immediate Payment life time

i didn't find any information about life time of payments with intent "sale". If a user cancel's payment by closing the paypal window, then i should be abled to continue payment by looking up the payment via api and redirect him to the approval url. But this works only for a certain time span. I'm abled to look up payments from yesterday, the response tells me about a payment state of "created" but after redirection to the approve_url paypal's website says:
Your Session has ended.
This transaction has expired. Please return to the recipient's website to complete your transaction using their regular checkout flow.
I guess i should create a new payment in that case. But how long should i wait before creating a new payment, because payments with age.. - lets say about 1 hour are still valid?
TIA
The user has three hours to approve of the PayPal payment before a new payment must be created.

Onsite Recurring Payments using Paypal Website Payments Pro API

I want to accept recurring payments on my site using paypal without having the user ever leave my site. Based on the paypal documentation it appears you have to send the user offsite to paypal (express checkout) first and then have them come back to your site.
Is their a different way of using the api so the user stays on site the entire time?
To Process payments not on PayPal's website, you need to use Website Payments Pro.
To use PayPal's recurring payment system, without programming your own:
Use Website Payments Pro Recurring Payments (direct payment recurring payments / DPRP)
Program your own recurring payment functionality:
Save cc info to a database and make DoDirectPayment API calls based on your criteria
Process an initial payment when someone signs up for your recurring service, save the transaction ID, and then call DoReferenceTransaction in the future (based on your criteria). Always use the newest transaction ID as they only last a year. Also, you need to call PayPal to apply for this feature ($0).

Getting status on canceled/expired credit cards for recurring billing with authorize.net

We're setting up a system that will use the XML API for Automated Recurring Billing with Authorize.net.
It looks simple enough to set up a recurring billing. But we have two features that do not seem obvious
* providing customers with details on individual payments
* providing notification to customers of expired/canceled cards
Anyone familiar with a mechanism to retrieve this info in automated form? We're considering
* just listing out assumed payments based on our own calculations the start date
* emailing customers based on the expiration date of the ards
But I'm stymed on how to figure out when a transaction failed due to canceled card (and automatically notify the customer).
Can anyone comment on how they handled this issue when implementing a subscription-based service based on Authorize.net?
Authorize.Net has recently published a new ARB method "ARBGetSubscriptionStatus".
You may now easily query the status of a previously submitted ARB subscription without the need to depend on the "Silent Post Method".
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ARBGetSubscriptionStatusRequest xmlns="AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd"> <merchantAuthentication> <name>mytestacct</name> <transactionKey>112223344</transactionKey> </merchantAuthentication> <refId>Sample</refId> <subscriptionId>100748</subscriptionId> </ARBGetSubscriptionStatusRequest>
You want to use Authorize.Net's silent post feature. It will notify you of all payments made through their system including declines and expired credit cards. Your script will then be able to suspend accounts and/or notify your customers that their payments has failed.
See these link for more info:
Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures
All About Authorize.Net’s Silent Post
Handling Authorize.Net Silent Post with PHP
You need to use the Silent POST URL
ARBGetSubscriptionStatusRequest will not work. If the first transaction (or first transaction since the ARB profile was updated, either via API or manually) fails, the status of the subscription is set to suspended. Otherwise, the status of a subscription does not change when a transaction declines or a card expires.
Using the Silent POST URL, you'll be notified of successful transactions and you can use them to update your data such as tracking a next payment due date/expiration date. You can then run a cron job and if this field has not been updated, you will know that the card was cancelled or expired.
In the event that it is still an active card but gets declined, you'll get notified as such at the Silent POST URL