Shift4 Payments Plans API

Define recurring billing plans used by subscriptions.

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shift4-payments-plans-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Shift4 Payments Blacklist Plans API
  description: The Shift4 Payments API enables merchants and platforms to accept and manage payments, including one-time charges, refunds, customers, cards, tokenization, subscriptions, plans, payment methods, payment links, checkout sessions, fraud warnings, blacklist rules, disputes, file uploads, payouts, webhook endpoints, and events. Endpoints, parameters, and resource shapes are extracted from the public Shift4 documentation at https://dev.shift4.com/docs/api and the official open-source Shift4 SDKs (Java, Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, iOS, Android, WooCommerce, Salesforce B2C) maintained at https://github.com/shift4developer.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Shift4 Developer Support
    email: devsupport@shift4.com
    url: https://dev.shift4.com
  license:
    name: Documentation
    url: https://dev.shift4.com/docs
servers:
- url: https://api.shift4.com
  description: Production
security:
- BasicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Plans
  description: Define recurring billing plans used by subscriptions.
paths:
  /plans:
    post:
      tags:
      - Plans
      summary: Create a Plan
      operationId: createPlan
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlanRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Plan created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Plan'
    get:
      tags:
      - Plans
      summary: List Plans
      operationId: listPlans
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of plans.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlanList'
  /plans/{planId}:
    parameters:
    - name: planId
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - Plans
      summary: Retrieve a Plan
      operationId: getPlan
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A plan object.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Plan'
    post:
      tags:
      - Plans
      summary: Update a Plan
      operationId: updatePlan
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlanRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Updated plan.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Plan'
components:
  schemas:
    PlanList:
      $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListResponsePlan'
    Plan:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        created:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        deleted:
          type: boolean
        amount:
          type: integer
        currency:
          type: string
        interval:
          type: string
          enum:
          - DAY
          - WEEK
          - MONTH
          - YEAR
        intervalCount:
          type: integer
        billingCycles:
          type: integer
        name:
          type: string
        trialPeriodDays:
          type: integer
        recursTo:
          type: string
        statementDescription:
          type: string
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
    PlanRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - amount
      - currency
      - interval
      - name
      properties:
        amount:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        currency:
          type: string
        interval:
          type: string
          enum:
          - day
          - week
          - month
          - year
        intervalCount:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          default: 1
        billingCycles:
          type: integer
        name:
          type: string
        trialPeriodDays:
          type: integer
        recursTo:
          type: string
        statementDescription:
          type: string
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
    ListResponsePlan:
      type: object
      properties:
        list:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Plan'
        hasMore:
          type: boolean
        totalCount:
          type: integer
  parameters:
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 100
        default: 10
      description: A limit on the number of objects to be returned.
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Use your secret API key as the username with an empty password.