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Recurring Billing Subscription Data Migration Guide
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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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Retrieve Original Subscription Data from the Original Provider

This topic applies to migrating a credit or debit card subscription to

Cybersource

when the original subscription data is not in

Cybersource

TMS but it is available from the original subscription provider.

To retrieve original subscription data from the original subscription provider:

Contact the previous subscriptions provider to obtain data from the original subscription.

Request the network transaction ID for original subscription.

Include the network transaction ID in this field of the subscription creation request message that the script sends to the

Cybersource

subscription service:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

subscriptionInformation. originalTransactionId

If the subscription is for a Diners card or Discover card:

Request the authorized payment amount for the original subscription.

Include the authorized payment amount in this field of the subscription request that the script sends to the

Cybersource

subscription service:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

subscriptionInformation. originalTransactionAuthorizedAmount

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