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MABS-Inp · ‎Aug-31-2018

I get a little bit lost in the documentation for possible billing methods in the REST API. We're building an application, where our customers should be billed monthly, but not automatically. The amount of the invoice variates from month to month, based on the intensity of usage. It might happen, that the customer does not uses the application for a while. Then were shouldn't be a automatic billing. Our software should trigger the payment, but i don't want to ask the customer every time for permission. I want to ask the customer only once and then get paid without customer interaction using an API request. At the moment, i tested the "Billing Plans" and "Billing Agreements", but it seems, that i can only define a monthly recurring amount, which will billed automatically. I can not setup a plan without an amount, and i cannot trigger a payment using this agreement. Which payment solution is the right for my situation, or how do i have to set up the billing plans and agreements to archieve my wanted result?

MABS-Inp · ‎Aug-31-2018

Thank you Justin, i checked your solution and finally got an ID as expected. Nevertheless i have to say, the documentation is not correct about that behaviour. Look here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/payments.billing-agreements/v1/#billing-agreements-create-response There should be an explanation about this workflow. At the moment it says, that you have to create an agreement and will get an ID as response: A successful request returns the HTTP 201 Created status code and a JSON response body that shows billing agreement details including a billing agreement id and redirect links to get the buyer's approval. There is nowhere a hint about the need to execute the agreement before you get an ID.

MABS-Inp · ‎Aug-15-2018

Hello, i'm trying to create a new billing agreement with my customers using the REST API and the PHP-SDK. Then I'll request the API to create a new agreement, passing a correct plan-ID, i'll get this response: { "name": "Base Agreement", "description": "Basic Agreement", "start_date": "2018-08-15T13:32:38+00:00", "plan": { "id": "P-1JR66297L7128100YH******", "state": "ACTIVE", "name": "Test Workflow", "description": "Test Workflow", "type": "INFINITE", "payment_definitions": [{ "id": "PD-0HN28616CR5245516H******", "name": "Monatliche Rechnung", "type": "REGULAR", "frequency": "Month", "amount": { "currency": "EUR", "value": "100" }, "cycles": "0", "charge_models": [], "state": null, "frequency_interval": "1" }], "merchant_preferences": { "setup_fee": { "currency": "EUR", "value": "0" }, "max_fail_attempts": "0", "return_url": "http://localhost/frontend/ExecuteAgreement.php?success=true", "cancel_url": "http://localhost/frontend/ExecuteAgreement.php?success=false", "notify_url": null, "id": null, "state": null, "auto_bill_amount": "NO", "initial_fail_amount_action": "CONTINUE", "accepted_payment_type": null, "char_set": null } }, "links": [{ "href": "https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&token=EC-27336791K47******", "rel": "approval_url", "method": "REDIRECT" }, { "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/billing-agreements/EC-27336791K47******/agreement-execute", "rel": "execute", "method": "POST" }] } As you can see, the agreement is correctly created, but there is no id of the agreement. If i'll call the approval-url, it takes me correctly to the PayPal Loginpage. But also on return to my server i don't get any hint about the agreement id. How do i get it? In the Developer Docs it is mentioned, that there should be a field id, but it is not there. A bug in the API or do i make something wrong? PayPal-Debug-ID: 283eb878ec5d1

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