Are there no response codes for subscriptions?

Question

Paymill:

I'm developing a website which sells subscriptions. Whenever a new customer signs up I do the following:

1. Create a new "client" at Paymill
2. Create a new "payment" (the customers credit card) at Paymill
3. Add a new subscription at Paymill for this "client" using this "payment"

There are no trial periods, so Paymill issues the first transaction immediately. But sometimes the first transaction fails, I can see in the cockpit this is due to any of these errors: https://www.paymill.com/pt-pt/documentation-3/reference/api-reference/#document-statuscodes

But how can I know this? There are no response codes in the returning subscription object (the subscription is set up fine, but the first payment fails).

What have I missed?

Answer 1

there are no responsecodes for subscriptions you are right, but you should register webhooks for this. Than you'll be informed if a transaction of this subscription fails and also gets the errorcode. Please have a look for webhooks here https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/documentation-3/reference/api-reference/#webhooks.

We will also make a refactoring for subscription in the first quarter of 2014. Than we'll improve also the responses.

Best, Christian