Can CIM process payments immediately?

[Squidfoundry876]

I am messing around with the PHP SDK and have successfully been able to create both ARB and CIM.

My end goal is to do the following:

1. Process customers first months payment immediately.

2. If payment was successful then add them into ARB or CIM.

However in my testing of ARB and CIM it does not appear to me that payment is processed immediately. It seems to just set up the customer or subscription.

Do I have to use AIM first to process the initial first month payment and upon `success` callback create the CIM or ARB for the customer? 

[RaynorC1emen7 · Accepted solution]

They did add a new param to the createTransactionRequest to create a CIM profile from the AIM call.

http://community.developer.authorize.net/t5/The-Authorize-Net-Developer-Blog/New-API-Calls-to-Create...