I want to add some unit tests for our billing system which is using braintree but I don't know how to change the subscription period from 1 month (minimum in braintree for now) to 1 day. I cannot wait 1 month to execute my test. is there any solution to do that?
I recently asked Braintree support a similar question and here is the advice I was given:-
The sandbox environment is setup to mimic the production environment exactly. Unfortunately, this leaves us at the mercy of real time as well. However you can definitely test the subscription_charged_unsuccessfully and subscription_went_past_due webhooks in the sandbox by creating a past due subscription using the steps below:
Create a plan with a 1 day trial and $2000 price (a test amount that will automatically simulate a decline)
Create a customer with a credit card
Create a new subscription using the plan and customer
The first charge attempt will be after 1 day (when the trial expires) and will fail
The automatic retries will be at +10 and +20 days of the subscription going past due – this timeline can be changed by updating the recurring billing retry logic in your Control Panel
You could also test the subscription_charged_successfully webhook using the same basic principles – simply create a plan with a 1 day trial and a price less than $2000.
I hope that helps.
I work at Braintree. Feel free to reach out to support#braintreepayments.com with any further questions.
You can't modify the subscription billing period to shorter then a month. Sandbox is designed to mimic production for end-to-end testing and since Braintree doesn't offer subscription billing in smaller increments then a month we have decided to not offer a shorter billing period in sandbox.
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I have raise RecurringApplicationCharge for my app. I set 5 days trail period and for test purpose i include "test":true.
I install app in a test store
After completed 5 days trail my app is still active . it doesnot return to the payment page.
How can i handle this ? . shall i do any thing manually?
I think you are misunderstanding things. The merchant has agreed to install your App. That means they agreed to allow your App access to scopes and perhaps a charge. Once installed, the trial is nothing more than a buffer of days before Shopify starts charging them money.
In other words, when the trial ends, nothing changes except the customer begins being charged money... It is not like the trial stops the App from working. If you wanted that, you'd have to roll your own trial system.
I'm looking for a way to allow our clients to do recurring payments to discount these payments based on the credit in their account which can be earned or deposited in many ways. For example, if they need to pay $20 and have $5 in credit, I would like to only bill the remaining $15 automatically without any need for additional website visits.
Looking at the documentation for PayPal's REST APIs, I don't see any clear way to do this. Is the only way to do this to send them a refund automatically? Or is there a way to get approved to bill clients up to X amount per month but allow us to bill under that amount. I thought billing agreements would allow for this, but after reading the documentation, I'm unable to figure out a way to do it. If it's possible, could someone walk me through what API calls would be needed to do this?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
There are a couple of different ways you could do this sort of thing, but I would avoid the REST API for now. It's still too new and doesn't provide as much functionality and features as the classic API.
Within the classic API, you can use either use Preapproved Payments, which consists of Preapproval and Pay APIs, or you could just use Express Checkout and/or Payments Pro with Reference Transactions.
Either way you'd basically be building your own recurring payments system where you'd setup a billing agreement and then your app would trigger the variable amount payments accordingly.
I just wanted to ask among the gurus here if anyone has ever attempted to test a complete transaction from start to end on an ecommerce site using paypal or any other epayment gateway.
Please guys, I would appreciate any thoughts and comments. As it is a live site, I cant use the sandbox as that will negatively impact sales. However my firm is a startup and so can't afford the complete transaction and refund process that was suggested [here]:Accepting dummy credit cards on a live site with ActiveMerchant & PayPal.
Please help!
Previously I tested by buying low cost items from myself - that way you're only paying commission and you're getting most of the moneyback.
Admittedly you need 2 Paypal accounts, but that shouldn't be a problem, and you should only have to 'kick the tyres' in the live environment because all your testing will have been done in the dev environment.
We had a similar problem during startup and still use this process in the live site. We have specific "test" products that we purchase using a live credit card, then monitor the transactions: purchase, decline purchase, subscription (recurring billing), cancel, refund, etc.
Our test product is priced very low (5 cents). For subscriptions, the billing interval is 1 day, for a maximum of 3 intervals (with a free trial period of 1 day). This allows me to run a full test/validation, including recurring billing, in the live environment in less than a week.
We refund all charges following the test, which puts the money back on the credit card (or back in the PayPal account). Because of the refunding, our sales impact is zero (offsetting sale and refund). It does cost us a small non-refundable PayPal fee for each transaction, but that amounts to $1 or less.
These "test" products are not exposed to normal users. Also, we manually verify any "test" sales to make sure they are part of our internal testing.
"Sandbox" testing is the way to go during development, but a periodic test in the live environment is necessary to be verify that nothing is amiss.
Why not use a real credit card, then give yourself a refund? The commision fee is returned in that case.
All the time that I want to test our live sites we use a real credit card.
Thanks
I don't understand why you can't use the sandbox..?? How would using it negatively impact your sales? It's all fake.
Just setup your own sandbox.yourdomain.com version of your site and use that as your test server. Configure it to use PayPal's sandbox with sandbox API credentials, etc. This will allow you to go all the way through an order process and test everything from the UI stuff to payment processing, API requests/response processing, IPN, etc.
When everything is working you sync it up with your live server, which is hitting the live PayPal server, of course.
Again, I don't see how that would impact you in any way other than being a successful testing solution..??
I have an App in the Shopify App store that uses a recurring application charge. No problems there.
Sometimes, one of my users will make a suggestion to improve the app. I would like to reward them with a free month of using the app without being charged.
Based on the Shopify API, The only thing I can think of is to cancel the current recurring application charge, create a new charge for $0, then a month later cancel that charge and create new one for the original price. This is far from ideal. I believe that the user would need to accept every new charge that is created.
Is there a better way? Any suggestions?
Agreed that that sounds pretty far from ideal.
If you create a new recurring app charge with a 30 day trial period, Shopify will change the customer over to this new charge while respecting the trial period. The customer will still see a prorated charge for the partial payment cycle before you “upgraded their plan” after the trial is up, but this will effectively do what you want.
As of 2017 there is now an API for granting credits to merchants using your app:
https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/using-the-shopify-api-to-credit-merchants-for-app-charges
https://help.shopify.com/api/reference/applicationcredit
I've written a subscription based web app that I want to charge (by credit card) a monthly fee. There are 3 different plans and once they sign up, they should be billed that amount, automatically, every month until they cancel. Is there an easy way to set this up (some sort of online service maybe?).
You can use Paypal's merchant service to provide reoccurring charges for a subscription.
Pretty easy to implement, they provide plenty of examples and even a sandbox to get you up and running.
There are now some service providers that take care of your billing and subscription needs. You use their API and they handle billing and subscriptions for you. Their services work with payment systems like PayPal and Authorize.Net.
Take a look at the following sites:
Chargify
Spreedly
Cheddargetter
I would suggest not using Paypal or Authorize's recurring payments directly. Their APIs are brutal, and the functionality is very rudimentary. It may work fine for when you're just starting out, but if you ever want to change anything down the line, you'll be in trouble.
I work for CheddarGetter, so I'm biased, but you should check us out.
Our competitors are not as robust or flexible, but they are definitely better than using Paypal or Authorize.net directly.