Authorize.net Add-on Recurring Payments End-Date, Number of Occurrences

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I’m implementing the Authorize.net add-on, and I see when I create the feed I can specify a number of days or months for the period, and a number of occurrences.

Is there a way that these could be specified by user-submitted form data? So my user can say “I wish to donate every X days/weeks/months?”

Is there a way the user could submit a start date and end date for the payments?

Thank you.

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Hello. You can use the gform_authorizenet_subscription_pre_create filter to modify the start date. See example 1 here:

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Thanks, Chris.

The docs for that filter refers to the The Authorize.net subscription object.

When I visit the Authorize.net documentation, I see this object within the ARBCreateSubscriptionRequest object:

"subscription": {
            "name": "Sample subscription",
            "paymentSchedule": {
                "interval": {
                    "length": "1",
                    "unit": "months"
                },
                "startDate": "2020-08-30",
                "totalOccurrences": "12",
                "trialOccurrences": "1"
            },
            "amount": "10.29",
            "trialAmount": "0.00",
            "payment": {
                "creditCard": {
                    "cardNumber": "4111111111111111",
                    "expirationDate": "2025-12"
                }
            },
            "billTo": {
                "firstName": "John",
                "lastName": "Smith"
            }
        }

Is that the entirety of the subscription object referred to in your docs for the gform_authorizenet_subscription_pre_create filter?

The examples in the GF docs to manipulate the object appear as follows:

  • $subscription->startDate
  • $subscription->trialOccurrences
  • etc.

I’m a bit confused why it wouldn’t be $subscription->paymentSchedule->startDate. Does GF sort that all out elsewhere?

I have found the function get_subscription on line 1066 of class-gf-authorizenet.php. Are all the properties which are being set here for our subscription object $subscription available to modify with gform_authorizenet_subscription_pre_create?

Finally, can I use that filter to add additional properties that aren’t included in the get_subscription function but are options in the Authorize.net API?

Thank you for wading through all my questions.

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All the examples in our documentation have been tested to work before publishing them. The add-on uses AuthorizeNet’s PHP SDK, so it manages the $subscription object as the official PHP SDK created by AuthorizeNet does. Checking how the get_subscription() function uses the $subscription object is a good reference for your custom code.

You can use the filter to alter any of the parameters set by the add-on by default or include any other subscription parameter supported by the AuthorizeNet API.

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Extremely helpful. Thank you, Samuel!

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