paypal verifying first payment or initamt was billed in recurring payment

Question

I want my users to be able to subscribe to a recurring payment (using the express checkout api) The first payment needs to be billed immediately that the user subscribes, and I

Answer 1

This can be done as you require, I've tested it and it works. The key is that you need to process both a standard digital goods payment as well as a recurring payment using the same Express Checkout flow, i.e. The user will be asked to pay a once-off, as well as approve a subscription. You would want to set the s

1. Follow the instructions for setting up the payment: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/express-checkout/ht_ec-basicDigGoodsPayment-curl-etc/

2. Add the fields specified for recurring payment: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/express-checkout/ht_ec-recurringPaymentProfile-curl-etc/

3. Process 'DoExpressCheckoutPayment' and if successful, 'CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile' with a start date of your first 'renewal' date.

You should now have both transaction id for the one-off payment, as well as a profile id for the recurring payment.