Comments on: Authorize.Net Launches Recurring Billing API

by: rogo

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:25:30 +0000

Hi,

Is there anyone who managed to make a successful ARB API call using SOAP? For us all SOAP requests returns response with error “E00001: An error occurred during processing. Please try again”

When XML is used for request a subscription is created ok, but not with SOAP request.

by: John Conde

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:58:45 +0000

There is no way to do this as Authnet will not contact you unless there is a problem. And then it is only by email. You can assume a payment is successful unless you get an email and if you are a decent programmer you can intercept that email with a programming language and have it mark the payment as not processed in your DB.

by: Arnab

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:51:07 +0000

Hello
I am facing a problem regarding ARB payment method in authorize.net, Here i want to update my database after each payment of each ARB subscribed user and it need to be done silently . can you please tell me whether silent post will work here or not, if not is there any other way to do the same?

by: Dan Grossman : Whoa. Authorize.net has a recurring billing API?

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:09:12 +0000

[…] I read a post by stymiee, one of my favorite members and another great contributor to the forums there, and noticed his signature: Authorize.Net releases their Recurring Billing API - GET THE CODE. I was amazed. Authorize.net had created a recurring billing API and not even mentioned it in the announcements list that shows up whenever I log in to my account there. […]

by: Dan Grossman

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:52:34 +0000

Oh my god. Why didn’t anybody tell me about this (including Authorizenet). I was on the verge of switching gateways to get a recurring billing API and now I find out Authorizenet has had one for a month.

by: Alexis Bellido

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:28:12 +0000

Hi, I’ve just finished making some changes so that the class works with both PHP 5 and PHP 4.

Get the Authorize.net ARB class for PHP 4 and 5 from my site and let me know how it works.

Thanks for sharing the original code John.

Cheers!

by: Dylan Tynan

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:03:12 +0000

I have been able to put through some test ARB subscriptions & that seems to work fine. However, I am still waiting on authorize.net to get back to me with details on how I’m supposed to find out what xactions fail or succeed months down the road. They’re telling me I should get an email (though, really, a login-protected xml results page would be much better in my opinion than a plain-text email flying over the net…even if it’s just subscription # and result code, why even bring email into it?). Anyway, they’ve been “checking on this” for a week or so …. John, have you heard anything on how this is supposed to work? At some point some future billing is going to fail & I’d like to handle it programmatically…..

Dylan

by: Alexis Bellido

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:47:40 +0000

Cool! I’ll keep an eye on my control panel.

Thanks!

by: John Conde

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:22:48 +0000

I followed up with Authorize.Net and it seems at the last second they held off a bit. At this point it can go live at any minute. I wrote this blog post last night and scheduled it to publish when it was originally set to launch (while I was sleeping) so it looks like I jumped the gun a bit but since they will be launching it momentarily I see no harm in leaving this up.

And the API will be available to all merchants who have activated the recurring billing module for their account. It uses the same API keys as their AIM API. Once it goes live you will see a link to get the documentation in your control panel.

by: Alexis Bellido

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:16:19 +0000

Hello John, thanks a lot for sharing the good news.

I have the same question, why there’s no official word of Authorize.net yet?

Is this API already working for people with ARB enabled accounts or we have to ask for it?

Thanks!