Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- PayPal Payments Pro Integration Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing PayPal Payments Pro
- Introducing Direct Payment
- Introducing Express Checkout
- Getting Started With Direct Payment
- Getting Started With Express Checkout
- Integrating Recurring Payments
- How Recurring Payments Work
- Recurring Payments Terms
- Recurring Payments With Direct Payment
- Recurring Payments With the Express Checkout API
- Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile
- Recurring Payments Profile Status
- Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
- Modifying a Recurring Payments Profile
- Billing the Outstanding Amount of a Profile
- Recurring Payments Notifications
- Getting Started With the PayPal Name-Value Pair API
- Implementing 3-D Secure Transactions (UK Only)
Integrating Recurring Payments
Recurring Payments Terms
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Get information details about a recurring payments profile.
Change the status of a recurring payments profile.
Update the details of the recurring payments profile.
Bill the outstanding amount of the recurring payments profile.
Limitations
The current release of the Recurring Payments API has the following limitations:
A profile can have at most one optional trial period and a single regular payment period.
The profile start date may not be earlier than the profile creation date.
Recurring Payments with Express Checkout also has the following limitations:
To be able to create a recurring payments profile for the buyer, you must ensure that the
buyer’s PayPal account includes an active credit card.
You can create a maximum of 10 recurring payments profiles during checkout.
You can increase the profile amount by only 20% in each 180-day interval after you create
the profile.
Recurring Payments Terms
The following table lists and describes terms that are commonly used in the context of PayPal
recurring payments.
Recurring Payments Terms
Term Definition
Recurring payments profile Your record of a recurring transaction for a single buyer. The profile
includes all information required to automatically bill the buyer a fixed
amount of money at a fixed interval.
Billing cycle Make one payment per billing cycle. Each billing cycle has 2 components:
The billing period specifies the unit to calculate the billing cycle (such as
days or months).
The billing frequency specifies the number of billing periods that make
up the billing cycle.
For example, if the billing period is Month and the billing frequency is 2, the
billing cycle is 2 months. If the billing period is Week and the billing
frequency is 6, PayPal schedules the payments every 6 weeks.
Regular payment period The main subscription period for this profile, which defines a payment
amount for each billing cycle. The regular payment period begins after the
trial period, if you specify a trial period for the profile.