API Overview

Recurring Billing Developer Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document

Introduction to Recurring Billing
- Prerequisites
- Account Validation (Pre-Authorization)
- Supported Processors
- REST API

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

Zero-Amount Authorizations

When you create a subscription before the subscription start date, Cybersource verifies the account with a zero-amount authorization to ensure that the stored card details are valid.

When you create a subscription on the subscription start date, Cybersource does not perform a zero-amount authorization because the first recurring payment is processed immediately.

IMPORTANT

Deprecated flow:
This behavior occurs only when you do not provide the value for

subscriptionInformation.originalTransactionId

and application performs the initial authorization. This flow does not ensure Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) compliance.