Paypal Express Checkout API method CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile - the parameter total inside customer account appears 0.00

Question

The problem is in the buyer paypal account. The problem is that Total appears $0.00 USD not $0.02. The amount inside the recurring is set to $0.02

This is the parameters that I set with CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile :

$padata = array(
'L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME0'            => 'My Product',
'PROFILEREFERENCE'                 => 'RPInvoice123',
'PROFILESTARTDATE'                   => date('Y-m-d') . 'T' . date('H:i:s').'Z',
'SUBSCRIBERNAME'                    => 'Mr Sub Scriber',
'TOKEN'                                => urlencode($token),
'DESC'                                => 'My Product + Second Product',
'AMT'                             => '0.02',
'BILLINGPERIOD'                      => 'Month',
'BILLINGFREQUENCY'                  => '1',
'TOTALBILLINGCYCLES'                => '12',
'REGULARTOTALBILLINGCYCLES'            => '1',
'VERSION'                           => '74.0',
'MAXFAILEDPAYMENTS'                  => '1',
'L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT0'           => '0.02',
'L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NUMBER0'     => '10101',
'L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_QTY0'           => '1',
'L_BILLINGTYPE0'                    => 'RecurringPayments',
'L_BILLINGAGREEMENTDESCRIPTION0'    => 'My Product + Second Product',
'L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_ITEMCATEGORY0'    => 'Digital'
);

How can I get this working?

Yogesh Yogesh · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-12T10:45:17

Actually you are not setting some initial amount to charge immediately to customer.So the Recurring profile get created and will charge the customer $0.02 from next billing cycle. Suppose you are charging customer $100/month and you want to charge first $100 immediately set initial amount in API call.So after creating the profile one $100 (or any other amount you want charge the customer for first time) transaction will occur against that profile. Sample SOAP API Call

$profileDetails = new RecurringPaymentsProfileDetailsType();
$profileDetails->BillingStartDate = gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");
$profileDetails->ProfileReference = 'user_id=' . $_SESSION['userid'].'|plan_id='.$_SESSION['plan_id'];
$activationDetails = new ActivationDetailsType();
/*
 * (Optional) Initial non-recurring payment amount due immediately upon profile creation. Use an initial amount for enrolment or set-up fees.
 */
$activationDetails->InitialAmount = new BasicAmountType($this->currency, $_SESSION['amount']);

$paymentBillingPeriod = new BillingPeriodDetailsType();
$paymentBillingPeriod->BillingFrequency = 1;
$paymentBillingPeriod->BillingPeriod = "Month";
$paymentBillingPeriod->Amount = new BasicAmountType($this->currency, $_SESSION['amount']);

$scheduleDetails = new ScheduleDetailsType();


$scheduleDetails->Description = "recurring";
$scheduleDetails->PaymentPeriod = $paymentBillingPeriod;
$scheduleDetails->ActivationDetails = $activationDetails;

$createRPProfileRequestDetails = new CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequestDetailsType();
$createRPProfileRequestDetails->Token = $_SESSION['token'];

$createRPProfileRequestDetails->ScheduleDetails = $scheduleDetails;
$createRPProfileRequestDetails->RecurringPaymentsProfileDetails = $profileDetails;

$createRPProfileRequest = new CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequestType();
$createRPProfileRequest->CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequestDetails = $createRPProfileRequestDetails;

$createRPProfileReq = new CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileReq();
$createRPProfileReq->CreateRecurringPaymentsProfileRequest = $createRPProfileRequest;

$config = array(
    'mode' => $this->environment,
    'acct1.UserName' => $this->username,
    'acct1.Password' => $this->password,
    'acct1.Signature' => $this->signature
);
$paypalService = new PayPalAPIInterfaceServiceService($config);
$createRPProfileResponse = $paypalService->CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile($createRPProfileReq);

Paypal Express Checkout API method CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile - the parameter total inside customer account appears 0.00

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