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Table Of Contents
- SOAP API Developer Reference
- Contents
- What’s New
- Preface
- PayPal SOAP API Basics
- PayPal WSDL/XSD Schema Definitions
- PayPal SOAP API Definitions
- Security
- SOAP RequesterCredentials: Username, Password, Signature, and Subject
- SOAP Service Endpoints
- SOAP Request Envelope
- Request Structure
- SOAP Message Style: doc-literal
- Response Structure
- Error Responses
- CorrelationID for Reporting Problems to PayPal
- UTF-8 Character Encoding
- Date/Time Formats
- Core Currency Amount Data Type
- AddressVerify API Operation
- Authorization and Capture API Operation Reference
- DoDirectPayment API Operation
- DoNonReferencedCredit API Operation
- ExpressCheckout API Operations
- GetBalance API Operation
- GetPalDetails API Operation
- GetTransactionDetails API Operation
- ManagePendingTransactionStatus API Operation
- MassPay API Operation
- Recurring Payments and Reference Transactions API Operations
- CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API Operation
- GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails API Operation
- ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatus API Operation
- BillOutstandingAmount API Operation
- UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfile API Operation
- SetCustomerBillingAgreement API Operation
- CreateBillingAgreement API Operation
- GetBillingAgreementCustomerDetails API Operation
- BAUpdate API Operation
- DoReferenceTransaction API Operation
- RefundTransaction API Operation
- TransactionSearch API Operation
- API Error Codes
- General API Errors
- Validation Errors
- DirectPayment API Errors
- SetExpressCheckout API Errors
- GetExpressCheckoutDetails API Errors
- DoExpressCheckoutPayment API Errors
- Authorization and Capture API Errors
- GetTransactionDetails API Errors
- TransactionSearch API Errors
- RefundTransaction API Errors
- MassPay API Errors
- Recurring Payments Errors
- SetCustomerBillingAgreement Errors
- GetBillingAgreementCustomerDetails Errors
- CreateBillingAgreement Errors
- UpdateBillingAgreement Errors
- DoReferenceTransaction Errors
- AddressVerify API Errors
- ManagePendingTransactionStatus API Errors
- Countries and Regions Supported by PayPal
- State and Province Codes
- Currency Codes
- AVS and CVV2 Response Codes
- About Previous Versions of the API
- Revision History
- Index
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Recurring Payments and Reference Transactions API Operations
CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API Operation
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BillingPeriodDetailsType Fields
Field Description
PaymentPeriod.Billi
ngPeriod
ns:BillingPeriodType
(Required) Unit for billing during this subscription period. It is one of the following
values:
Day
Week
SemiMonth
Month
Year
For SemiMonth, billing is done on the 1st and 15th of each month.
NOTE: The combination of BillingPeriod and BillingFrequency cannot
exceed one year.
PaymentPeriod.Billi
ngFrequency
xs:int
(Required) Number of billing periods that make up one billing cycle.
The combination of billing frequency and billing period must be less than or equal to
one year. For example, if the billing cycle is Month, the maximum value for billing
frequency is 12. Similarly, if the billing cycle is Week, the maximum value for billing
frequency is 52.
NOTE: If the billing period is SemiMonth., the billing frequency must be 1.
PaymentPeriod.Total
BillingCycles
xs:int
(Optional) Number of billing cycles for payment period.
For the regular payment period, if no value is specified or the value is 0, the
regular payment period continues until the profile is canceled or deactivated.
For the regular payment period, if the value is greater than 0, the regular payment
period will expire after the trial period is finished and continue at the billing
frequency for TotalBillingCycles cycles.
PaymentPeriod.Amoun
t
cc:BasicAmountType
(Required) Billing amount for each billing cycle during this payment period. This
amount does not include shipping and tax amounts.
NOTE: All amounts in the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile request must
have the same currency.
Character length and limitations: Value is a positive number which cannot exceed
$10,000 USD in any currency. It includes no currency symbol. It must have 2 decimal
places, the decimal separator must be a period (.), and the optional thousands
separator must be a comma (,).