API Overview

Recurring Billing Subscription Data Migration Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document
- VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Introduction to Migrating Subscription Data to Cybersource Recurring Billing
- Migration Flow
- Migration Limitations
- Migration Prerequisites

Task 1: Enable Recurring Billing in Your Cybersource Account

Task 2: Integrate with the Cybersource API

Task 3: Export Current Subscriptions to a File

Task 4: Create New Subscriptions
- Requirements for the Subscription Creation Script
- Additional Fields Required for Card Subscriptions
  - Additional API Field Required for Any Credit or Debit Card Subscription
  - Additional API Field Required for a Diners or Discover Card
- Obtaining Additional Values Required for Card Subscriptions
  - Retrieve Original Subscription Data from the Cybersource TMS
  - Retrieve Original Subscription Data from the Original Provider
  - When Original Subscription Data Cannot Be Retrieved
- Construct Your Subscription Creation Script

Task 5: Validate the New Subscriptions in the Cybersource System
- Use the Business Center to Validate Migrated Subscriptions
- Use the REST API to Validate Migrated Subscriptions

Finalize the Migration

Reference Information
- Using the Interactive REST API Reference
  - Build a Request to Create a Recurring Billing Plan
  - Build a Request to Create a Recurring Billing Subscription
- Creating a Subscription with a One-Time Plan
  - Required and Optional Fields
  - REST Example: Create a Subscription with a One-Time Plan
- Creating a Subscription with an Existing Plan
  - Required and Optional Fields
  - REST Example: Create a Subscription with an Existing Plan
- Creating a Subscription with Plan Overrides
  - Required and Optional Fields
  - REST Example: Create a Subscription with Plan Overrides

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Task 2: Integrate with the
`Cybersource`
API

Set up authentication using either JSON Web Token (JWT) or HTTP Signature.

Generate API keys for your preferred authentication method at the

Cybersource

Business Center. Integrate this authentication method into your migration script using the

Cybersource

API.

To integrate with the

Cybersource

API:

Log in to your Cybersource account at the Business Center.

Production:

https://businesscenter.cybersource.com

Test:

https://businesscentertest.cybersource.com/ebc2

Set up your

Cybersource

account for secure communication of REST API messages using either JSON Web Token or HTTP Signature. Generate a P12 key for JWT or a shared secret key pair for HTTP Signature: Set Up Your Cybersource Account

Integrate the selected authentication method into the subscription creation script.

For JWT authentication, see Set Up JSON Web Token Messaging.

For HTTP Signature authentication, see Set Up an HTTP Signature Message.

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