topic Remaining Billing Cycles on ARB in Integration and Testing

Remaining Billing Cycles on ARB

bobbydoogle — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:58:05 GMT

I'm working in C# .net, and am trying to "renew" annual subscriptions. In this business case however, doing this does not add 12 billing cycles, instead it needs to be a total of 12 billing cycles from the time this update is called. In other words, if someone renews 6 months into a 12 month plan, the billing cycles needs to be set to 12, not 18. Will the following do this:

SubscriptionGateway gate = new SubscriptionGateway( _apiLogin, _transactionKey );
subscription = SubscriptionRequest.CreateMonthly( email, subscriptionName, amount );
subscription.SubscriptionID = subscriptionId;
subscription.BillingCycles = 12;
actual = gate.UpdateSubscription( subscription );

IE, will this ovveride any remaining cycles, and set the total reamining cycles to 12, as of when this is called?

Also, is there a way to NOT have to specify the amount, as I don't want to change it, and not having to lookup what the amount should be would be a nice timesaver.

Thanks in advance for shedding light on this.

Re: Remaining Billing Cycles on ARB

RaynorC1emen7 — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:23:18 GMT

https://github.com/AuthorizeNet/sdk-dotnet/blob/master/Authorize.NET/ARB/SubscriptionRequest.cs

show there is a CreateNew()

BillingCycles is from the startdate, and when a ARB have started, you can't change the startdate anymore.

So in your example, either cancel and create a new ARB with 12 months or continue with 18 months.

Re: Remaining Billing Cycles on ARB

bobbydoogle — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 22:24:40 GMT

Is there any way to get/request the current subscription cycle, or remaining cycles? In this case cancelling and creating a new one is not an option as we don't store any payment information on our server.

Re: Remaining Billing Cycles on ARB

RaynorC1emen7 — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 22:51:29 GMT

Nothing that allow you to get for just one subscriptionID

They only have one to get all subscription

ARBGetSubscriptionList