topic Re: One-time Charge and Creating Subscription simultaneously in Integration and Testing

One-time Charge and Creating Subscription simultaneously

BC2016Genomics — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:01:53 GMT

Hi,

I'm working on a storefront with both one-time and subscription products, and would like to know best practices for charging both at once.

I have 2 separate functions:

- Charging the card through createTransactionRequest.

- Creating a subscription through ARBCreateSubscriptionRequest.

My checkout page has a form for customer data and CC information. On submit:

- POSTS the information back to itself

- stores it in a SESSION array

- runs either or both functions, depending on what they ordered. If no error codes show up, it goes to a confirmation page.

Further reading indicates that for a more robust system, the Authorize and Capture for a CC charge should be split into separate actions, with the Capture being run only after the Authorize clears. Also, I am unsure of how to integrate such a separation with the SubscriptionRequest.

If I implement seperating the authorize and capture actions, would I be better served by the following pseudocode?

run authorize
if authorize ==success
run capture

if capture == fail

display error type, prompt for correction

prompt to run capture only again

run subscription

if subscription == fail

display error type, prompt for correction

prompt to run subscription only again

if authorize == fail

display error, prompt for correction and to run again.

Thanks in advance for corrections and advice.

Re: One-time Charge and Creating Subscription simultaneously

RichardH — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:13:37 GMT

Hello @BC2016Genomics

One option is to set the createProfile flag for the intial transaction. If it is successful, the response will include a customer profile which you can to create a subscription.

If the initial transaction is unsuccessful, no profile is created.

Richard

Re: One-time Charge and Creating Subscription simultaneously

Joy — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:45:22 GMT

Hi BC2016Genomics,

Are you expecting to have recurring customers for one-time payments? If this is the case I suggest that you consider running everything throug Customer Profiles, please check:

http://developer.authorize.net/api/reference/features/customer_profiles.html

Thanks,

Joy

Re: One-time Charge and Creating Subscription simultaneously

BC2016Genomics — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 04:32:26 GMT

@RichardH @Joy Thank you for your responses. I am reviewing the customer profiles description now, and will evaluate if that route serves our purposes.