Can someone explain the difference between the two? From what I have read, subscription is the one where you grab the HTML button from PayPal, whereas recurring is done via the API.
Is that it or is there more to it?
If so, how do subscription customers cancel their subscription?
(And, why does PayPal make it so developers have to trawl forums for answers?!)
PayPal's different type of recurring transactions:
Subscription
A subscription is created via a Website Payments Standard Subscribe button.
Before 2009, the subscription profile ID started with S-XXXXXXXX. You are not able to manage these subscriptions via any API calls.
After 2009 the subscription profile ID starts with I-XXXXXX. You are able to cancel these subscriptions via the ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatus API call.
Recurring Payments Profile
A recurring payments profile is created through the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API, and is accessible for both Express Checkout users, as well as those using Direct Recurring Payments as part of their Website Payments Pro Product.
If you use CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile via Express Checkout, you'll need prior authorization from the buyer, typically obtained by passing BILLINGTYPE=RecurringPayments in your initial SetExpressCheckout API call.
If you're using Direct Recurring Payments, you'll be able to directly pass in the credit card details into the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API call.
Recurring Billing
Available for Payflow Pro / Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition customers. This works similar to Direct Recurring Payments, except it's done through the Payflow API.
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In all cases, a 'profile' is created, and PayPal is the one doing the actual billing on the schedule that you provided. You don't need to make any further API calls for the subscription / recurring payments profile / recurring billing profile to be processed.
And one more thing that I noticed.
When we make an API call to get the Transaction-details for a recurring/subscription transaction, the subscriptions which have their Profile-ID's starting with 'S-' have their TRANSACTIONTYPE as 'subscr_payment' and the subscriptions with Profile-ID's starting with 'I-' have their TRANSACTIONTYPE as 'recurring_payment'
Don't know if I am completely right.
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I am studying how to implement a scenario with PayPal APIs where the customer confirms a PayPal subscription once and authorise all future payments. The amount is charged only when the user demands the service (i.e. like a food delivery app: the user agrees to the subscription once, and from that moment on he's never asked for confirmation each time he orders and confirms, the amount is automatically charged).
I know it could sound trivial (there are a lot of applications doing this) but actually I can't find that scenario in PayPal documentation.
Looks like the Subscription scenario only allows a cycle, which is not my case. In my scenario there is no cycle: the customer is charged only when consuming products or services (with variable amount from time to time).
Thanks in advance!
This requires reference transactions, which is an account feature that must be approved an enabled by PayPal. Contact your PayPal account manager or business support ( https://www.paypal.com/smarthelp/contact-us ) to explain the business need and request the feature. (Technical support will not enable the feature.)
As for the implementation, the only publicly documented API is Classic NVP. PayPal may give you guidance on integrating with some newer API, such as "v2" vault (not v1 vault)
I want to create a subscription using Paypal. I created the API call but I want my BlueSnap console to manage it. Is there a way? I don't want to use the retrieve call all the time...
Bluesnap has two ways of managing the PayPal subscription: one using PayPal's system, and one using BlueSnap's subscription manager . In both cases, you do not need to retrieve the subscription constantly to charge it, if you're using a standard subscription.
In order to know which subscription management you will use, you can contact BlueSnap and ask about your account configuration.
In order to use the API to create a subscription in PayPal, you can use the extended API or the payment API.
Extended API:
1) create a subscription SKU to use: https://developers.bluesnap.com/v8976-Extended/docs/create-product, https://developers.bluesnap.com/v8976-Extended/docs/create-sku.
2) Create shopping context with the SKU: https://developers.bluesnap.com/v8976-Extended/docs/create-shopping-context. Make sure you use the PayPal examples.
3) Use the created Token URL to send to the shopper to approve the purchase in PayPal.
Payment API:
1) Create the PayPal transaction: https://developers.bluesnap.com/v8976-XML/docs/create-paypal-transaction.
2) Use the created Token URL to send to the shopper to approve the purchase in PayPal.
Currently, payments processed through certain credit card processors (example: Authorize.net) can be set to first authorize the fund, then later capture them when prompted in the UI via the admin interface.
I am hoping to capture funds of authorized orders (Big Commerce status 'awaiting payment') via the API rather than through the UI. I have not been able to find anything but a post from 3 years ago saying it was not yet possible. Is there now a way, or is this still something that cannot be done?
old thread: Is it possible to "capture funds" for authorized credit card transactions via the API?
It isn't possible to capture funds via the API today. The API is meant to Create, Read, Update, or Destroy entries and nothing is exposed to the API that would allow you to execute an action between BigCommerce's core application and the payment gateway .
I am new to the paypal and intefrati it with asp. Net mvc.
Can anyone plz guide which api should be used...??
I have downloaded merchant sdk and I have also seen the documentation but still not able to get what can be used among express checkout, pro, adaptive payment, etc
Thanks in advance.
I would recommend Express Checkout with Recurring Payments. Specifically, that will consist of the following API calls:
SetExpressCheckout - To get a token back from PayPal, and then redirect the user to PayPal.
GetExpressCheckoutDetails - To obtain details about the buyer. This is optional depending on how you setup your SEC request
DoExpressCheckoutPayment - This would be used to finalize a regular (non-recurring) Express Checkout flow.
CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile - This would be used to generate the profile using the tok you got back from SEC.
If you want to setup recurring payments with credit cards directly on your site you'll need Payments Pro with Recurring Billing, and then you would use the PayFlow API to set everything up.
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).