Subscriptions allows you to manage recurring payments with flexibility and ease, be it weekly, monthly, or yearly. Beyond automated scheduling, Subscriptions is designed to enhance the end-user experience and improve payment success rates with advanced features, ensuring an efficient subscription management process with low-cost integration.
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You can set up recurring payment plans for your end users with ease. Simply define the amount, schedule, and recovery options for failed payments, and Xendit will handle the scheduling and automatic deductions. All you need to do is monitor webhook events to track payment confirmations for each billing cycle.
Create subscriptions on the dashboard
This feature currently only available for our legacy subscription product
Please visit our migration guide pages here for more details
Before you begin
To create a subscription plan, you must have at least one active payment channel that supports Merchant-Initiated Transactions.
Check compatibility: Go to the Available Payment Channels table and apply the Merchant-Initiated Transaction filter to see which channels support this.
Activation: Please note that some payment channels may not be available for self-activation via the Dashboard. In these cases, please contact our CS for assistance.
For more information on how to activate payment channels, please click here.
How to create a subscription
Go to the Subscriptions page
Click Create Plan
Enter the plan details, such as your customer's info and the amount to charge
Select subscription cycle (weekly, monthly, etc.).
Configure retry settings for failed payments to maximize success rates
(Optional) Choose how to notify your customer about payments (i.e. email, SMS)
Click Create Plan
Share the payment link with your customer
Once your customer links their auto-debit payment method, their subscription will start automatically.
You can also download reports from the Xendit Dashboard to keep track of your subscriptions.
Create subscriptions via API integration
There are 2 entry points of creating subscriptions via our API:
Xendit Checkout UI
Use this entry point if you want to use Xendit’s hosted UI (via Payment Link or components) to collect and tokenize your user's payment method during the subscription setup.
Existing Payment Token
Use this entry point if you already have an existing payment token ID for your customer and want to create a subscription plan immediately.
Create Payment Session: Create a Payment Session with the type
SUBSCRIPTION. In this request, you will define all critical subscription parameters, including amount and currency, billing cycle, anchor date, payment schedule, customer information and retry configurationRedirect User: Redirect your user to the URL of payment link or via Component to proceed with the payment/linking process.
Webhooks: Once the session is successfully completed, you will receive:
Payment Session completion, indicating the complete state of the current session
Payment Token Webhook for the new payment method.
Subscription Plan Webhook notification, indicating that the plan is active.
Management: Xendit will automatically start managing the schedule and deduct the user's balance based on the defined plan. Listen to our webhook notification on the cycle of the subscription.
Create Subscription Plan: You will create the subscription plan by providing the
payment_token_idyou already have.Webhooks: Once the subscription request is completed, you will receive a Subscription Plan Webhook notification.
Management: Xendit will automatically start managing the schedule and deduct the user's balance based on the defined plan. Listen to our webhook notification on the cycle of the subscription.