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Enable recurring payments

Enable recurring payments.

About recurring payments

Recurring payments allow you to debit your customer’s account with a fixed or variable amount on a regular basis for the recurring services. You can also use recurring payments for single debit transactions.

Some of the recurring payment examples include:

  • Membership fees
  • Subscription to a regular or varying service
  • Registration within a shop to avoid reentering the payment data
  • Trial period, which require an initial registration for a service later

You can accept recurring payments in the following two ways:

  1. Accepting recurring payments without the customer being present during the transaction.
  2. Saving a customer’s payment method and corresponding details only for the Accept payments with a payment page.

Supported payment methods

Currently, the following payment methods support recurring:

Registering a credit card

For more details on recurring payments for credit cards, see credit cards.

Registering PayPal

To register PayPal as a recurring payment, implement the following flow:

  1. Initially, the customer goes to PayPal settings and enables a flag to allow recurring payments without customer interaction on their account.
  2. Create a new PayPal /types/<pay_pal_id>/recurring resource.
  3. Redirect the customer to the redirect URL.
  4. The customer logs in to their PayPal account and chooses their preferred payment option.
  5. After the customer enters their payment details, the PayPal types resource is successfully registered as recurring. Now, PayPal can be used for direct charges without further customer interaction.

Example request: Accept recurring payments

To accept recurring payments, make a POST call to types/<paymentId>/recurring, with a private key and the following parameters in the request body:

Parameter Required Type Description Example
returnUrl Yes String Needed for redirect payments and credit card payments if 3-D Secure is used. https://www.unzer.com
customerId No String The ID of the customers resource to be used.
metadataId No String The ID of the related metadata resource.
POST https://api.unzer.com/v1/types/<paymentId>/recurring

Body:
{
  "returnUrl" : "https://www.unzer.com"
}
{
    "isSuccess": false,
    "isPending": true,
    "isError": false,
    "redirectUrl": "https://api-payment.unzer.com/v1/redirect/3ds/s-I98KIK9alGzO",
    "message": {
        "code": "COR.000.200.000",
        "customer": "Transaction pending"
    },
    "returnUrl": "https://www.unzer.com",
    "date": "2019-03-07 11:42:47",
    "resources": {
        "customerId": "",
        "metadataId": ""
    },
    "processing": {
        "uniqueId": "31HA07BC8110C3EE06224EB9C3FC44C2",
        "shortId": "4158.8536.7528"
    }
}
Property Type Description
isSuccess Boolean Set to true if the transaction was successful.
isPending Boolean Set to true if the transaction is pending
(for example, if a redirect to an external system is required).
isError Boolean Set to true if an error occurs.
redirectUrl String The URL to which the customer gets redirected after the payment.
message String An error message describing the error in more detail.
code String A unique ID of the message.

For details, go to Error handling.
customer String Message displayed to the customer.
returnUrl String The URL to redirect the customer to after the payment is completed.
date String Date and time of the transaction.
resources Object The details linked to the payment.
customerId String The ID of the customers resource.
metadataId String The ID of the related metadata resource.
processing Object The process details of the related payment.
uniqueId String The ID of the transaction process.
shortId String The short ID of the transaction process.

Registering Unzer Direct Debit

To use the recurring feature for Unzer Direct Debit, implement the following flow:

  1. Make a POST call to payments/charges.
  2. After a successful charge, the Unzer Direct Debit resource is automatically set as recurring.