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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, and cancel subscriptions. Approve, unapprove, skip, or unskip payments.	Create, retrieve, amend, reactivate, suspend, and cancel subscriptions. Pre-payment approval flows are no longer supported.
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 by using these services: Recurring Billing Virtual Terminal Transaction management as a follow-on transaction Batch upload	Business Center Create subscriptions by using these services: Recurring Billing Virtual Terminal. Create a customer token within the Virtual Terminal's One-time Payment and then use it to create a subscription from the token management tab, or create a subscription using the Existing Customer flow. Transaction management as a follow-on subscription creation.
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 five system retries, based on the billing period unit.
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

IMPORTANT

To make a one-time on-demand payment, submit a Make Payment request in the Token Management module of the Business Center. For details, see Make a One-Time Payment After Migration.