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Payflow Recurring Payments Developer’s Guide 3

Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Where To Go For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . 5

Chapter 1 Recurring Payments Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About the Payflow Recurring Payment Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Managing Recurring Payments Profiles Through PayPal . . . .

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Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . 9

Recurring Payments Terms . . . .

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Chapter 2 Creating Recurring Payments Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Preparing to Create Recurring Payments Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Creating Profiles Through Your PayPal Account. .

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Creating Recurring Payments Profiles Programmat

ically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile Programmatic

ally. . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Specifying the Regular Payment Period . . . .

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Including an Optional Trial Payment Period . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Specifying an Initial Payment . . . . . .

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Setting the Number of Failed Payments . . . .

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Billing the Outstanding Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Example: Creating a Recurring Payments

Profile For Billing a Credit Card . . . . . . . . . 16

Example: Creating a Recurring Payment

s Profile For Billing a PayPal Account . . . . . . 18

Chapter 3 Deactivating and Reactivating Recurring Payments Profiles .

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Deactivating a Profile Through Your PayPal Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Reactivating a Profile Through Your PayPal Account . . . .

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Deactivating a Profile Programmatically . . . .

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Reactivating a Profile Programmatically . . . .

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Example of Deactivating a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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