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Recurring Payments Reference

Creating Recurring Payments Profiles (ACTION=A)

40 Payflow Recurring Payments Developer’s Guide

BA_DESC (Optional) See TOKEN. Describes the recurring payment product or

service the buyer is purchasing with a PayPal account. The string value

is exactly as it was passed in the Set Express Checkout request.

Example: ‘One-year subscription to Time magazine’

Character length and limitations: 127 alphanumeric characters.

ACCT (Required for credit card recurring billing) Credit card number.

Character length and limitations: 19 alphanumeric characters.

EXPDATE (Required for credit card recurring billing) Credit card expiration date.

Character length and limitations: Four numeric characters in the format

MMYY.

AMT (Required) Amount to be billed per regular payment period, not

including shipping and tax.

N OTE: All amounts in the profile creation request must be in the same

currency.

Limitations: Nine numeric characers plus decimal (.) character. No

currency symbol. Specify the exact amount to the cent using a decimal

point—use 34.00, not 34. Do not include comma separators—use

1199.95 not 1,199.95.

START (Required) Beginning date for the recurring payments cycle used to

calculate when payments should be made. Use tomorrow’s date or a date

in the future.

Character length and limitations: Eight numeric characters in the format

MMDDYYYY.

TERM (Required) The total number of regular payment periods over the life of

the agreement. If there are 36 monthly payments, for example, TERM is

36.

Character length and limitations: Numeric. A value of 0 means that

payments should continue until the profile is deactivated (suspended).

ABLE 8.1 Create Recurring Payments Profile Request Parameters

Parameter Description

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