Developer's Guide

Payflow Recurring Payments Developer’s Guide 33
6
Billing the Outstanding Amount
You can request to bill the outstanding amount of a profile to immediately bill the buyer for the
current past due or outstanding amount for a recurring payments profile. To bill the
outstanding amount:
z The profile status must be active or deactivated (suspended).
N OTE: You cannot activate a suspended profile in the request for billing the outstanding
amount. You must reactivate with the reactivate recurring payments profile request.
See “Deactivating and Reactivating Recurring Payments Profiles” on page 21.
z The profile must have a non-zero outstanding balance.
z The amount of the payment cannot exceed the outstanding amount for the profile.
z The request to bill the outstanding amount cannot be within 24 hours of a regularly
scheduled payment for this profile.
Log in to PayPal to determine the success or failure of the outstanding payment. See
Chapter 5, “Getting Recurring Payments Profile Details,” for information on how to obtain
profile details.
Billing the Outstanding Amount
You can bill the outstanding amount of a profile through the Payflow SDK. Table 6.1 lists the
parameters required in a request to bill the outstanding amount.The ACTION value is always P.
TABLE 6.1 Parameters Required to Retry a Transaction
Parameter Notes
TRXTYPE The value R for recurring payments.
ACTION The value P for billing the outstanding amount.
ORIGPROFILEID Profile ID of the profile for which the outstanding amount will
be billed.