Recurring Billing

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With Braintree's recurring billing, you can charge your customers automatically in monthly increments. In order to set this up, you'll need to create a plan in the Control Panel or via the API and store your customers in the Vault. From there, you can associate each customer's preferred payment method with a plan to create a subscription.

Here are the three elements you’ll need to bill customers on a recurring basis:

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  • Define the length of the billing cycle, billing date, and default cost
  • Define the number of billing cycles before expiration
  • Can be created for different services

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  • Include payment method
  • Can include personal details (e.g. address, email)
  • Can be linked to multiple subscriptions

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  • Are funded by a specific payment method
  • Can be flexible and have different elements from the original plan