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Introduction to Recurring Billing
The Recurring Billing service enables you to manage payment plans and
subscriptions for recurring payment schedules.
It automates the storage and handling of your customer’s payment information and personal data
within secure Visa data centers in compliance with credentials-on-file (COF) best practices.
Storage risks and the PCI DSS scope are reduced through the use of
the
.Token Management Service
(TMS
)Cybersource
Recurring Billing consists of these three
elements: - Token: stores customer billing, shipping, and payment details.
- Plan: stores the billing schedule.
- Subscription: combines the token and plan and defines the subscription start date, name, and description.
For information about Recurring Billing in the
Business Center
, see the
Recurring Billing User Guide
.Recurring payments can also be handled with the payments API.
Merchant-initiated transactions (MITs) are part of the payments API.
For more information on recurring payments using MITs,
see the Recurring Payments section in the
Payments Developer Guide
.IMPORTANT
Do not use this document if you are using the payments API to process
recurring payments. When using payments API for MITs, you must capture and store the
customer's payment credentials manually. Also, you send the payments API MIT requests to
different endpoints than you send the recurring billing requests.
The Recurring Billing service is available for the
REST
API only.
The service is not available in the SCMP
API or the Simple Order
API.