API Overview

Recurring Billing Developer Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document

Introduction to Recurring Billing
- Account Validation (Pre-Authorization)

Plans
- Plan Statuses
- Assigning a Plan Code
- Creating a Plan
- Retrieving a List of Plans
- Retrieving a Plan
- Retrieving a Plan Code
- Amending a Plan
- Activating a Plan
- Deactivating a Plan
- Deleting a Plan

Subscriptions
- Subscription Prerequisites
- Subscription Statuses
- Zero-Amount Authorizations
- Assigning a Subscription Code
- Subscription ID
- Overriding a Plan
- Creating a Subscription with an Existing Plan
- Creating a Subscription with Plan Overrides
- Creating a Fully Customized Subscription with a One-Time Plan
- Creating a Follow on Subscription from an Existing Transaction
- Retrieving Details for Follow on Subscription Creation Based on Existing Transaction
- Retrieving a List of Subscriptions
- Retrieving a Subscription
- Retrieving the Next Subscription Code
- Amending a Subscription
- Reactivating a Suspended Subscription
- Suspending a Subscription
- Canceling a Subscription

Additional Features
- System Retry Logic
- Merchant-Initiated Transactions
- Customer Notifications
- Decision Manager Integration
- Account Updater Integration

Testing

VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Recent Revisions to This Document

25.06.01

Updated information about the amount of time allowed between subscription payments in these sections:

Creating a Plan

Subscription ID

25.05.02

Updated this section:

System Retry Logic

25.05.01

Added these sections:

Creating a Follow on Subscription from an Existing Transaction

Retrieving Details for Follow on Subscription Creation Based on Existing Transaction

Updated these sections:

Account Validation (Pre-Authorization)

Subscription Statuses

Zero-Amount Authorizations

Updated these sections:

Creating a Subscription with an Existing Plan

Creating a Subscription with Plan Overrides

Creating a Fully Customized Subscription with a One-Time Plan

Amending a Subscription

Updated the example in this section:

REST Example: Switching a Subscription to a Different Plan

Updated the graphics in these sections:

Subscription Statuses

24.10.01

Added these topics:

Creating a Subscription with an Existing Plan

Creating a Subscription with Plan Overrides

Creating a Fully Customized Subscription with a One-Time Plan

Amendable Fields

24.09.01

Added Information about system retry logic for recurring billings with payments on a custom frequency. See System Retry Logic.

24.06.01

Updated the introduction

and also noted that Recurring Billing is not available for the SCMP API or the Simple Order API

. See Introduction to Recurring Billing.

24.04.01

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.