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Legacy and Upgraded Recurring Billing Feature Comparison

This table compares key features of the legacy Recurring Billing to the new Recurring Billing service.
Feature Comparison
Feature
Legacy Recurring Billing
Upgraded Recurring Billing
Subscription management
Create, manage, edit, cancel, suspend, and skip or unskip subscriptions.
Create, retrieve, amend, reactivate, suspend, and cancel subscriptions. To skip a payment, you can suspend and reactivate the subscription.
Plan management with subscription templates
Not available.
Full plan management that includes create, retrieve, amend, activate, deactivate, and delete.
Integration methods
SCMP API
Simple Order API
Secure Acceptance
REST API
Online portal
Business Center
Create subscriptions in:
  • Recurring Billing
  • Virtual Terminal
  • Transaction management as a follow-on transaction
  • Batch upload
Business Center
Create subscriptions in:
  • Recurring Billing
  • Virtual Terminal (create customer token within Virtual Terminal One-time Payment and then use it to create a subscription from token management tab or create subscription using Existing Customer flow)
Data security
Secure storage tokenization, legacy with end-of-life plan
Token Management Service (TMS)
Failed transaction retry logic
Maximum of five system retries
Maximum of four system retries
Payment methods
Payment cards on major networks
Bank accounts (ACH)
Payment cards on major networks
Bank accounts (ACH)
Account Updater
Optional support on secure storage
Optional support on TMS