PayPal REST API and recurring payments

Question

I'm looking at the new PayPal REST API and the examples. Does it work as of today to make recurring payments? (a.k.a: subscriptions with recurring payments with billing cycle and the number of times the recurring payment is made.)

I cannot find this information in the documentation.

Thanks,

Answer 1

The PayPal REST API doesn't currently offer recurring payments, although the Classic APIs do offer this feature:

https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/use-cases/

Answer 2

PayPal REST API now officially support Recurring Payments (Billing Plans and Agreements)

Answer 3

There are two options here for the REST API.

First you can store a credit card in the vault to make recurring payments against that card.

The second option is not yet released, but will involve a long term OAuth token, see this answer.

Answer 4

Try the Paypal REST API-> https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/create-billing-plan/

After setting your account, you´ll get a secret key and client id, which you´ll use later on to make the call to the api.

Remeber to set the grant_type on the apiContext so you don´t get a 403.

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/#create-a-plan

Answer 5

Billing Plan and Agreement APIs are also deprecated, we can use Subscription API instead,

Integration guide: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/subscriptions/integrate/#

Documentation: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/subscriptions/v1/