API Overview

Recurring Billing Developer Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document

Introduction to Recurring Billing
- Prerequisites
- Account Validation (Pre-Authorization)

Plans
- Plan Statuses
- Assigning a Plan Code
- Creating a Plan
- Retrieving a List of Plans
- Retrieving a Plan
- Retrieving a Plan Code
- Amending a Plan
- Activating a Plan
- Deactivating a Plan
- Deleting a Plan

Subscriptions
- Subscription Prerequisites
- Subscription Statuses
- Zero Amount Authorizations
- Assigning a Subscription Code
- Subscription ID
- Overriding a Plan
- Creating a Subscription
  - Required Fields for Creating a Subscription
  - Optional Fields for Creating a Subscription
  - REST Examples: Creating a Subscription
- Retrieving a List of Subscriptions
- Retrieving a Subscription
- Retrieving the Next Subscription Code
- Amending a Subscription
  - REST Examples: Amending a Subscription
- Re-activating a Suspended Subscription
- Suspending a Subscription
- Cancelling a Subscription

Additional Features

VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

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Creating a Subscription

You can create a subscription with a standard plan, with plan overrides, or with a fully customized, one-time plan.

The start date must be in coordinated universal time (UTC) in this format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. The T separates the date and the time. The Z indicates UTC. For example,

2023-08-11T22:47:57Z

indicates August 11, 2023, at 22:47:57 (10:47:57PM). For subscriptions with a future start date, the payment processing time defaults to start at 2:00a.m. in your time zone. For subscriptions created on the start date, set the time to the current time and day in your time zone.

Follow these steps to create a subscription:

Send the request to the recurring billing endpoint:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

POST https://<url_prefix>/rbs/v1/subscriptions

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Use one of these URL prefixes:

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