my company has develop a recurring payment system using Billing Agreements and Plans providing 14 days of free trial and after these 14 days a one time payment of a fee for the full activation of the license.
Checking the payment status of one of our subscriber with this call
https://api-m.paypal.com/v1/payments/billing-agreements/AGREEMENT_ID
it results that the next_billing_date is expired and no payment has been attempted
The Agreement object retrieved by the call
1 cycles_remaining, next_billing_date yesterday, failed_payment_count 0 and no outstanding balance.
The only "strange" thing is payer.status=unverified.
(For test purpose, in this case, the demo period was limited to 3 days)
{
"id": _ID_,
"state": "Active",
"description": "services activation 20210329-V1",
"start_date": "2021-04-02T23:34:13Z",
"payer": {
"payment_method": "paypal",
"status": "unverified",
"payer_info": {
...
}
},
"shipping_address": {
...
},
"plan": {
"payment_definitions": [
{
"type": "TRIAL",
"frequency": "DAY",
"amount": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "0.00"
},
"cycles": "1",
"charge_models": [
{
"type": "TAX",
"amount": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "0.00"
}
},
{
"type": "SHIPPING",
"amount": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "0.00"
}
}
],
"frequency_interval": "3"
},
{
"type": "REGULAR",
"frequency": "MONTH",
"amount": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "96.38"
},
"cycles": "1",
"charge_models": [
{
"type": "TAX",
"amount": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "0.00"
}
},
{
"type": "SHIPPING",
"amount": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "0.00"
}
}
],
"frequency_interval": "1"
}
],
"merchant_preferences": {
"setup_fee": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "0.00"
},
"max_fail_attempts": "1",
"auto_bill_amount": "NO"
}
},
"links": [
...
],
"agreement_details": {
"outstanding_balance": {
"currency": "EUR",
"value": "0.00"
},
"cycles_remaining": "1",
"cycles_completed": "0",
"next_billing_date": "2021-04-06T10:00:00Z",
"failed_payment_count": "0"
}
}
