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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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Reference Information

This section contains reference information for migrating subscriptions from the current subscriptions platform to Recurring Billing subscriptions on the

Cybersource

platform.

This reference information is supplemental to Task 4: Create New Subscriptions.

How to access and use the interactive REST API reference.

The

Cybersource

Developer Center includes an interactive REST API Reference
. As you write your script, you can use the interactive module to help construct request messages for creating Recurring Billing plans and subscriptions.

How to create a subscription for a one-time plan.
These topics provide detailed information about how to request the creation of a subscription that uses a one-time plan.

How to create a subscription for an existing plan.
These topics provide detailed information about how to request the creation of a subscription that uses an existing plan.

How to create a subscription with plan overrides.
These topics provide detailed information about how to request the creation of a subscription that uses plan overrides.

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