Advanced Features Guide

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Handling Recurring Payments
Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
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NOTE: You can also suspend, cancel, or reactive a recurring payments profile through the
PayPal website.
For recurring payments profiles created with the Express Checkout API, the buyer receives an
email about the change in status of their recurring payment.
Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
Use the GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails API to obtain information about a
profile.
NOTE: You can also get information about recurring payments profiles from the PayPal
website.
Along with the information that you specified in the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile
request, GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails also returns the following summary
information about the profile:
 Profile status
 Next scheduled billing date
 Number of billing cycles completed in the active subscription period
 Number of billing cycles remaining in the active subscription period
 Current outstanding balance
 Total number of failed billing cycles
 Date of the last successful payment received
 Amount of the last successful payment received
Modifying a Recurring Payments Profile
Use the UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfile API to modify a recurring payments profile.
NOTE: You can also modify recurring payments profiles from the PayPal website.
You can modify only the following specific information about an active or suspended profile:
 Subscriber name or address
 Past due or outstanding amount
 Whether to bill the outstanding amount with the next billing cycle
 Maximum number of failed payments allowed
 Profile description and reference
 Number of additional billing cycles
 Billing amount, tax amount, or shipping amount