API Overview

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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Task 5: Validate the New Subscriptions in the
`Cybersource`
System

After running the subscription creation script, verify that the newly created subscriptions match your exported subscription data. Within your test environment, send test transactions in order to validate proper setup.

Perform the validation at the

Cybersource

Business Center or using REST API requests.

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