So Many Features we May Have Infringed a Patent!

We are really excited to announce our latest release of recurring billing features. We have always offered recurring billing as a service and with this release we have enhanced our offerings. We strive to be the best payments provider in the industry, and frequent enhancements to our existing functionality is one way we do that. Below is a list of the new features that we have added.

Customizable Start Dates

If your subscription has a trial period, billing will begin at the end of that trial period. If your subscription does not have a trial period, you can opt to start billing immediately, on a specific date, or on a specific day of month. For example, if you're selling something related to the upcoming football season, you may want to collect subscriptions now but not begin billing until the regular season starts. Alternatively, if you only care about having your subscriptions recur on the 1st of every month (for instance), you can now easily set up a plan for that. The possibilities are endless! Because you can now start your subscription in the future we have introduced a new status called pending. Any subscription with a start date in the future and no trial period will have this status.

End Dates

Previously you would have to explicitly cancel a subscription if you wanted to end it. You now have an additional option that allows you to specify the number of cycles you would like the subscription to be billed. We have introduced another status of expired. For a subscription with a set number of cycles, its status will become expired after it's been billed that number of times.

Discounts

Do you offer promotional periods? Do you give discounts to some of your best customers? Well, you're in luck: we've added that capability. You can configure discounts to be deducted from the subscription price for the entire duration of the subscription or you can specify the number of billing periods that you would like to offer it. Discounts can be added to the plan and will be inherited by the subscription. However you will still have the flexibility to customize the discounts on the subscription and tailor it to your customers' needs.

Add-ons

Do you offer additional services or products that are outside your standard plans? Well now you can add away. We have added the ability to create add-ons for your subscription. You can configure add-ons to be added to the subscription price for the entire duration of the subscription or you can specify the number of billing periods that you would like to offer it. Add-ons (like discounts) can be added to the plan and will be inherited by the subscription but you still have the flexibility to configure the add-on on a per-subscription basis.

Enhanced Subscription Search

We have added the ability to search by subscription id, billing periods remaining, and price to the subscription search. We have also made it easier to select and search by plans. As we keep adding features we will continue to enhance our searching capabilities.

Delete Plans

Previously this was not an option. We have now added the ability to delete plans that have no subscriptions tied to them. We hope this will aid in keeping your plan data uncluttered.

To see a full list of our features check out our recurring billing page.

Thanks for reading!
Braintree Dev Team

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Jen Busenbark Jen is a Lead Product Manager who joined Braintree in 2009. She helped design all current processes including planning, building, testing, launching & just about everything else in software delivery. More posts by this author

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