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SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:18:10 GMT

With the SIM API - We are trying to do Subscriptions - Recurring Billing Transactions - Can somebody point me to some documentation for this ?

Is Subscriptions supported through SIM API ?

-Kunaal

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

RaynorC1emen7 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:42:07 GMT

No such thing as SIM subscription

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 03:17:12 GMT

How do i go about implementing Recurring billing using Authorize.Net ? I am using SIM API , because i need a Hosted Order Page.

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 03:42:51 GMT

Do, on Reading through the APIs - I see different Kind of APIs that Authorize.Net supports - one of them is the SIM API and there is a totally different API for Recurring Billing Transactions - this is the documentation i find on this - http://developer.authorize.net/api/arb/

So, how do i fulfill the following use case:

1. I am trying to enable an ecomerce site , where credit card payments are collected through the Hosted Order Page of Auth.Net - hence using the SIM API .

2. On this ecommerce site , users can also subscribe to certain products , which are subscriptions based.

3. In my checkout flow , when a shopping cart has both Subscription products and One-Time Purchase subscription products , i would show the Hosted Order Page from AUth.Net to collect Credit Card Details and then would i call the SIM API to Auth & Settle Charge for one-time purchase product and then the ARB API to create a subscription for the subscription product ?

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

paalare — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:58:21 GMT

Check out the CIM API: http://developer.authorize.net/api/cim/

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:10:27 GMT

Does this provide a Hosted Page for collecting Credit Card Information ?

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:01:29 GMT

Why is this API not advertized on Authorize.Net

I looked at the following links , and its not there.

http://developer.authorize.net/api/compare/

http://developer.authorize.net/api/

If i already have SIM implemented for One-Time Purchase , do i need to call another set of APIs for subscription products ?

I am unable to understand, how this should work - if i have a mixed cart of One-Time purchase and Subscription Products.

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:45:38 GMT

Reading through the http://developer.authorize.net/api/cim/ API and need to implement the following use cases:

1. Merchant has 2 types of Products - 1. One Time Payment Products 2. Recurring Payment Products

2. Shopping Cart could have a mix of both type of Products at a given time.

3. Whether the customer is ordering one time or recurring payment products can be determined only at the time of checkout

4. During checkout , need to present with a Hosted Payment Page from Auth.Net and need to capture ONLY the Credit Card Details , such as Number, Expiration Date and CVV - Address Information is already captured during the checkout flow and can be sent to Auth.Net, but does not need to be captured in the Hosted Payment Page.

5. If customer has Recurring Payment Products , then need to set up a Profile for the customer and charge the customer for repeated payments. We dont want Authorize.Net to have any logic of when to charge the customer - but instead, will have all that logic built in the subscriber code to charge the customer for recurring payment, when the customer is due using some kind of token from AUth.Net, so that the customer doesnt have to enter Credit Card Details again.

Can somebody walk me through what I need to implement(what APIs to call) to achieve this functionality.

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

RaynorC1emen7 — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:19:49 GMT

If you building the checkout process, then use DPM for the one time, and CIM for the recurring one.

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:35:44 GMT

Can i use ARB in addition to SIM to create a Recurring billing ?

SIM is already setup for my Website and now we want to add Recurring Billing to it .

The reason , i am asking is in the API docs - i see fields for Payment like Credit Card #, Expiration Dt etc. for creating a Subscription for ARB - since , i am using SIM , i dont have this Information in my website, so if i use ARB - How do i create a Subscription without payment information ?

Same question for CIM ? Can it be used in addition to SIM ?

Aren't Product APIs meant to be used in addition to the Payment APIs ?

The Information i seem to be missing is what Payment APIs can be used with which Product APIs ?

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

RaynorC1emen7 — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:56:43 GMT

To use ARB, CC info have to be on your server. so since you don't want that, you can't use it.

Same question for CIM ? Can it be used in addition to SIM ?

You can use any combo of API.

Product APIs?Payment APIs?

All API are different, while you are use each and every one separately, you canNOT combine them to make a SIMARB API.

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:11:57 GMT

So, it seems CIM API might work. So , after reading through the API - this is what i understand i need to :

1. For new customers (i would need to check this on my website to check , if the customer has a Auth.Net Profile Id stored on his profile, if not then new customer) - call the "Create Customer Profile" API

1. Call "Create Customer Profile" API - This would return me a Auth.Net Profile Id for the customer.

2. Call "Get Hosted Profile Page" API for the Profile Id returned in step 1 - This would return me a Token (valid for 15 mins)

3. Submit a Form with token retrieved in step 2 to "https://test.authorize.net/profile/addPayment" , to display Hosted Payment Form. (From the example , i see that this form contains Billing Information Fields also - Is there a way to hide those field and send those as parameters of this Form ? During Checkout Flow , we have already captured Billing Info of customer and dont want customer to enter this info again)

4. Hosted Payment Page will display , where the user would enter his Credit Card Details .

5. On Submit , CC Details will be validated and on success - Payment Profile will be added to the Auth.Net Profile - At this point , can i do a transaction on the Payment Profile also ? Or would i need to make a separate API Call to do a Transaction on the Payment Profile ?

Thank you for your patience and answering my questions

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

RaynorC1emen7 — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:10:32 GMT

Yes

1. Call "Create Customer Profile" API - This would return me a Auth.Net Profile Id for the customer.

Yes

2. Call "Get Hosted Profile Page" API for the Profile Id returned in step 1 - This would return me a Token (valid for 15 mins)

Yes

If I remember it correctly you can add the ship to address when you do the "create customer proifle" and then the customer can copy it.

4. Hosted Payment Page will display , where the user would enter his Credit Card Details .

Yup

once the customer enter their CC detail, it will return to your site, then you can get their payment profile ID to make a transactions.

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

kpatodia — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:55:17 GMT

For No. 3 & 5 - i am not clear from your answer.

For No. 3 - For Billing & Shipping Info , i already have them captured during the checkout flow and dont want user to enter them again on Auth.Net screen. Shipping is already on the Add Payment Form or Edit Payment, so that is Ok. However , for Add Payment - Billing fields are shown and they are all empty , so user has to enter them again - can i pre-populated those fields or hide them and send those fields behind the scenes to Auth.Net ?

For No. 5 - Once i submit the Payment Form , i get a Default Auth.Net Page , with a Button on it. I get Information Saved Message and that button displays the text , i had sent during the request to generate a token. I dont want to see this page , instead - i want to get handle to the response from Auth.Net - so , i can figure out , if there was a success or failure - if , Success , what was the payment profile Id - so, i could use it to make an API call to charge that Payment Profile. I dont have handle to that response from Auth.Net after submitting the payment Info - how do i achieve this ?

For this , seems like there are 2 URLs that i need to send to Auth.Net - hostedProfileReturnUrl - (i am already sending this and when i click on that button , it calls this URL- but i dont have the Payment Profile Id just created in context and no handle to error or success during the form submission ), & hostedProfileIFrameCommunicatorUrl ( not understanding what needs to be setup here)

Re: SIM: Subscriptions Guide

RaynorC1emen7 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:17:27 GMT

billing address is part of credit card info, so no, you can't prepopulate it. Can you instead of asking billing address on your site, get the billing address once your customer create the payment profile?

in the Hosted section on the CIM doc there is a

iFrameCommunicator, not sure how that works, but it sound like is might be what you are looking for.