PayPal

PayPal Billing API

The Billing API from PayPal — 13 operation(s) for billing.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Business capability

Subscription Lifecycle Management BC-4240

Operations 16

POST /v1/billing/plans Create plan #

GET /v1/billing/plans List plans #

GET /v1/billing/plans/{id} Show plan details #

PATCH /v1/billing/plans/{id} Update plan #

POST /v1/billing/plans/{id}/activate Activate plan #

POST /v1/billing/plans/{id}/deactivate Deactivate plan #

POST /v1/billing/plans/{id}/update-pricing-schemes Update pricing #

POST /v1/billing/subscriptions Create subscription #

GET /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id} Show subscription details #

PATCH /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id} Update subscription #

POST /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id}/revise Revise plan or quantity of subscription #

POST /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id}/suspend Suspend subscription #

POST /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id}/cancel Cancel subscription #

POST /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id}/activate Activate subscription #

POST /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id}/capture Capture authorized payment on subscription #

GET /v1/billing/subscriptions/{id}/transactions List transactions for subscription #

Documentation

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

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/catalog-products/v1/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/disputes/integration-guide/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/partner-referrals/v1/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/invoicing/v2/

https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/webhooks/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/payment-experience/

https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/payments.payouts-batch/v1/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/transaction-search/v1/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/tracking/tracking-api/

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/payment-tokens/v3/

Specifications

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/paypal/refs/heads/main/openapi/paypal-billing-api-openapi.yml

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/paypal/refs/heads/main/openapi/paypal-webhooks-asyncapi-original.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Paypal Subscriptions Billing API
  description: The Paypal Billing Subscriptions API is a tool that allows businesses to easily create, manage, and track customer subscriptions and recurring payments within their Paypal accounts.
  version: '1.6'
  contact: {}
servers:
- url: https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com
  description: PayPal Sandbox Environment
- url: https://api-m.paypal.com
  description: PayPal Live Environment
tags:


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