PayPal Convert Authorization Transaction to Recurring Payment Profile

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I have set up a website that uses the PayPal Payflow API to process payment transactions using a live Payments Pro account that has the Recurring Payment service. It works by first requesting a secure token and then committing the transaction. I have this working using both Hosted Pages (layout c) and Transparent Redirect. I'm using the Payflow_dotNet dll which uses the payflowpro.paypal.com URL.

Now I was told (and discovered) that Recurring payments can't be set up using Secure token so I'm doing this in 2 steps

  1. Create an authorization transaction
  2. Convert the transaction to a Recurring Payment Profile

So I have step 1 working. But I have problems with step 2. Step 2 SAYS that it worked but when I go to PayPal - Profile - My Selling Tools - My Automatic Payments there is nothing there, and the authorization transaction is still listed (as pending) in my History. Sample code:

PayflowNETAPI PayflowNETAPI = new PayflowNETAPI();
string secureTokenID = PayflowUtility.RequestId;
string response = PayflowNETAPI.SubmitTransaction(nvpstring, secureTokenID);

Where nvpstring is

PARTNER[6]=PayPal&VENDOR[13]=myvendor&USER[6]=Robert&PWD[8]=mypassword&
TRXTYPE=R&ACTION=A&TENDER=C&INVNUM=243&PROFILEREFERENCE=243&PROFILENAME[38]=Mark Groseth--243--Science Center Fund&
START=09182014&TERM=0&PAYPERIOD=MONT&AMT[4]=1.07&ORIGID=ESJPC2894AFC

where the ORIGID is the PNREF that was returned when creating the authorization transaction. This even gives me a resulting RPREF and ProfileID like RP0000000005. So where did it go? why didn't it work?

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1 Answers

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Whenever you use the Payflow API all the recurring profiles will be stored at manager.paypal.com. In other words, all the recurring profiles starting with RP... will be there in the manager account. Once you login to the manager account, go to "Service Settings", then "Manage Profiles". Here you will see the recurring profile.