Developer's Guide

Payflow Recurring Payments Developer’s Guide 3
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Where To Go For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 1 Recurring Payments Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the Payflow Recurring Payment Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Managing Recurring Payments Profiles Through PayPal . . . .
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Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Recurring Payments Terms . . . .
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Chapter 2 Creating Recurring Payments Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Preparing to Create Recurring Payments Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Creating Profiles Through Your PayPal Account. .
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Creating Recurring Payments Profiles Programmat
ically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile Programmatic
ally. . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Specifying the Regular Payment Period . . . .
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Including an Optional Trial Payment Period . .
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Specifying an Initial Payment . . . . . .
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Setting the Number of Failed Payments . . . .
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Billing the Outstanding Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Example: Creating a Recurring Payments
Profile For Billing a Credit Card . . . . . . . . . 16
Example: Creating a Recurring Payment
s Profile For Billing a PayPal Account . . . . . . 18
Chapter 3 Deactivating and Reactivating Recurring Payments Profiles .
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Deactivating a Profile Through Your PayPal Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Reactivating a Profile Through Your PayPal Account . . . .
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Deactivating a Profile Programmatically . . . .
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Reactivating a Profile Programmatically . . . .
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Example of Deactivating a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23