I looked through the linked AIM documentation and noticed the same thing. 
You need to be able to specify an interval and a duration, but there 
appears to be no way to do so.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Nathanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: AuthorizeNet Recurring Payments?


> Hmmmm...when I talked to them recently, that x_billing_recurring 
> attribute
> was not being used...if you can use that, then where do you specify 
> other
> data, such as whether the recurring billing is every month, every other
> month, or every 12 months for example?  Also the starting and ending 
> date
> for the subscription? Look more closely at the AIM API fields and you 
> won't
> find anywhere to send that data.  Simply specifying x_billing_recurring
> yes|no would not be enough information to actually get the subscription 
> up
> and running.  I think they stuck that x_billing_recurring field in there 
> in
> hopes of setting up an API for recurring billing at some point, but it's 
> not
> doable at the moment.
>
> I think there are issues with changing subscriptions frequently, that 
> would
> be a disincentive for AuthNet to make recurring billing subscriptions
> accessible via an API, so they may never actually offer that capability.
>
> -- Josh Nathanson
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John C. Bland II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: AuthorizeNet Recurring Payments?
>
>
>> Yes, there is. Specify x_billing_recurring (Yes|No) when you send your
>> data
>> and it will setup the recurring payment. Look at the AIM guide on the
>> Auth.net site. Better yet, here's the location of the file.
>> <http://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/merchantservices/connectionmethods/>
>> http://www.authorize.net/support/AIM_guide.pdf
>>
>> On 1/12/06, Josh Nathanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've used the Authorize.net recurring payments for about six months, 
>>> and
>>> it
>>> works fine, but as of the last time I checked (a few months ago), 
>>> there's
>>> no
>>> API to interact with the recurring billing system -- only the single
>>> transactions.  You have to set up the subscriptions manually through
>>> their
>>> website forms. I think they do have a batch processing feature, where 
>>> you
>>> can upload multiple subscriptions from a flat file, but I haven't 
>>> looked
>>> into that feature personally, and I think you still have to do it 
>>> through
>>> the AN website, there's no API for that.
>>>
>>> -- Josh Nathanson
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:20 PM
>>> Subject: AuthorizeNet Recurring Payments?
>>>
>>>
>>> > The CC thread reminded me of this...
>>> >
>>> > We've been using AuthorizeNet for many years and recently (well, in 
>>> > the
>>> > last couple of years, anyway) they began offering a means of doing
>>> > recurring payments.  It looks like these payment have to be set up
>>> > manually through forms on the AN web site, but I could be wrong. 
>>> > Does
>>> > anyone know if there's some kind of API that allows you to set up
>>> > recurring payments, halt them, check the success of transactions, 
>>> > etc.?
>>> > I'd like our sales associates to be able to set up these payments
>>> > themselves, but I don't want to give them administrative access to 
>>> > the
>>> > AuthorizeNet merchant login.


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