I am using the below feature to create recurring ARB at Authorize.Net
https://developer.authorize.net/api/reference/index.html#recurring-billing-create-a-subscription
We have implemented it in PHP but it is also accepting the test credit card details at time of ARB creation in live mode. It is not validating the credit card at time of ARB creation.
So is there anyway to validate the card at time of ARB creation not at time of amount deduction. I know it will validate when the first amount will deduct but I want validation at time of ARB creation.
Please suggest some solution if someone faced it before or anyone have any idea how to do it.
You can validate the card at the time of subscription payment by doing a $0.00 or $0.01 AUTH_ONLY transaction before you create the subscription. If the card is approved you can be sure the card is valid.
Keep in this mind that this does not validate that the card will be valid at the time the first subscription payment is processed or that the funds will be available (i.e. the transaction will be approved) as there is no way to know this until the card is actually processed at that time. But this will validate the credit card is otherwise valid.
Assuming you want to charge the credit card immediately and then have a recurring payment afterwards, you should do an AUTH_CAPTURE for the first payment and then future payments should be done using the ARB API. That way you are sure to capture your first payment, and validate the card, before you create the subscription.
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I am building a website which sells some web services. My clients will be charged monthly. I followed the document instructions (enter link description here) and after I execute the agreement. Nothing happened. After I wait for one night, I found that my test client account (sandbox account) was charged the trial amount and it said the payment is pre-approved, and my business account (sandbox account) didn't receive this payment.
So now I have the following problems about this recurring payment. Please help me about this. Thank you very much in advance.
Q1: How to charge initial payment in recurring payment? In my text client account, the initial payment of this recurring agreement is $0
Q2: How to know when the recurring payment is done? I want to record the transaction in my database and send receipt to my client after each payment.
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I have implemented IPN to get notifications about recurring agreement created/suspended/cancelled. But I didn't find which type of notification is used after each recurring payment, and I still didn't find how to charge initial payment.
I will try using set up fee and I will post the results when the test is done.
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Confirmed. The set up fee is used as initial payment. See this for more details.
I am using stripe in PHP. I have a customer and a card added to the customer in stripe. The added card is the default card for the customer. Is there a way to validate the card with the card id of the default card of the customer before billing the card?
When you create a customer in Stripe from a card token we automatically run a $0/$1 authorization on the card to make sure it's valid. This means that is the customer create succeeds then the card is valid.
That doesn't guarantee that you will be able to charge the card though as the banks ultimately decide whether or not they want to let a charge go through and this can depend on a lot of factors. The only way to make sure that a charge can go through is to create the charge itself and see whether it succeeds or not.
I am creating a subscription using Authorize.net ARB API. I can see in my account, where the subscription is created.
Its a very simple subscription, where a user would be paying $100 every month. I would like to know, if the user would be billed at the time of creation of the subscription ?
My understanding is that, he would be billed only from next month ? Any idea, how to bill the customer from the time the subscription is created ?
Thanks
ARBCreateSubscriptionRequest has parameter "startDate" where you can set date the subscription begins.
If first price should be different from monthly payments you can also set parameter "trialAmount" for first payment
All information you can find here
http://www.authorize.net/support/ARB_guide.pdf
You should always charge the first subscription payment using the AIM API. The AIM API will process immediately and act as a verification for the credit card. You will know immediately if a card is invalid and before you create the subscription. If you schedule a payment to process the same day the subscription is created it does not process immediately. That process later that night. If the credit card is invalid you lose the opportunity to have the user correct it because they are no longer present at your website.
We have specific requirement list for recurring payment method which are as follow:
After registration process user can select plan for recurring payment which is like 7$/month.
While registering user can enter coupon code and if he/she choose recurring plan then user will get discount on first month only and rest of the month he has to pay decided amount (7$/month) for recurring.
User can cancel his/her recurring plan and switch to free account.
User's account (premium/free) is depend on the received payment. So i have to check that user's payment is received and if not then i have to update my database and make user as free user.
There is a scenario that user signed up with recurring payment method after some month he switched to free account. Now again he wants to sign up with recurring plan. how can i achieve above scenario.
I know there are two options (subscription and recurring payment) but i am confuse which is suitable for this scenario. If there is another solution available then please suggest it.
PayPal doesn't have a coupon code feature so that is something you would need to handle on your own.
You can set up a trial period for a Recurring Profile that lasts a month and would be charged at the lower rate. After that trial period the Recurring Profile would start billing the normal amount of $7.
A buyer will always be able to change their Recurring Profiles within PayPal. You can't have a Recurring Profile open with PayPal for free. We require that a positive amount is provided. You can still track the users on your own but there wouldn't be an active Profile for them within PayPal you can check.
An existing Recurring Profile can be updated but the amount charged cannot be changed more than 20%.
Either a Subscription button through Payments Standard or Recurring Payment API's through Express Checkout will allow you to do this. Express Checkout Recurring Payments can be handled entirely through API calls.
I want to check that the credit card number provided by customer to my site is valid or not for further transaction. for that i wand to only verify taht the CC no is valid or not by Paypal.
A method for that can be with paypal api
step 1: DoDirectPayment with PAYMENTACTION=Authorization for amt of $1, then
step 2: DoVoid that request
Does any one can tell me
is any amount is charged by paypal for doing tis stuff?
or any other better way you know?
My site is in PHP..
PayPal charges when a transaction is made, not an authorization. If PayPal charged for authorizations then you would have to pay for people who entered their credit card, authorized, but then abandoned the purchase.
This question should be asked at https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1613
If you are concerned about whether or not the credit card is valid, you can always check it before posting the transaction to PayPal. I have written a CakePHP component for doing just that. This component could very easily be switched to a class and used for credit card validation:
http://github.com/cdburgess/components/blob/master/billing_validation.php
It is very thorough in checking:
what type of card it is (visa, master
card, etc.)
if the card is in fact valid (using
the luhn algorithm)
The advantage of validating the card in your system prior to posting to PayPal is there is no round trip cost. Meaning, you do not have to send a request to the PayPal API to do the validation. Chances are they will do the same validation my billing validation does anyway. It can be done faster right on your server.
Keep in mind, the one thing this class will not catch is credit card fraud. That will require a service. However, typically if there is something funny about the card, paypal will catch it when you are trying to process the funds on purchase.
Happy Coding!
I made it with the help of PAYPAL API's DoVoid Function. I'm making a payment of $1 in Authentication Mode, and if it return success i'm using DoVoid with returned transaction-id.