Customer-Initiated Recurring Payment with
TMS

A recurring payment is a credentials-on-file (COF) transaction in a series of payments that you bill to a customer at a fixed amount, at regular intervals that do not exceed one year between transactions. The series of recurring payments is the result of an agreement between you and the customer for the purchase of goods or services that are provided at regular intervals.

Supported Card Types

These are the supported card types for processing credentialed transactions:
  • American Express
  • Visa
Mastercard uses standing order and subscription payments instead of recurring payments. See Mastercard Standing Order Payments and Mastercard Subscription Payments.

Recurring Billing Service for Recurring Payments

IMPORTANT
Do not use this document for the Recurring Billing service.
Use the
Recurring Billing Developer Guide
. When you use the Recurring Billing service,
Cybersource
 saves and stores payment credentials for recurring transactions, ensuring compliance with COF best practices.

Creating a
TMS
 Token

When sending the initial CIT, you can create a
TMS
 token to store the customer's credentials for the subsequent MITs. To create a
TMS
 token, include the
processingInformation.actionTokenTypes
 field in the authorization request. Set the field to one of these values based on the
TMS
 token type you want to create:
Customer
Customer tokens store one or more customer payment instrument tokens and shipping address tokens.
Including a customer token in subsequent MITs eliminates the need to include billing information, card information, and the previous transaction's ID.
"processingInformation": {
    "actionTokenTypes": [
      "customer"
]
For more information about this
TMS
 token type, see Customer Tokens in the
Token Management Service
 Developer Guide
.
Payment Instrument
Payment instrument tokens store an instrument identifier token, card information, and billing information. Payment instruments are not linked to a customer token. Including a payment instrument in subsequent MITs eliminates the need to include billing information, card information, and the previous transaction's ID.
"processingInformation": {
    "actionTokenTypes": [
      "paymentInstrument"
]
For more information about this
TMS
 token type, see Payment Instrument Token in the
Token Management Service
 Developer Guide
.
Instrument Identifier
Instrument identifier tokens store a PAN. Including an instrument identifier in subsequent MITs eliminates the need to include a PAN and the previous transaction's ID.
"processingInformation": {
    "actionTokenTypes": [
      "instrumentIdentifier"
]
For more information about this TMS token type, see Instrument Identifier Token in the
Token Management Service
 Developer Guide
.
Instrument Identifier, Payment Instrument, and Customer Identifier
You can also create multiple
TMS
 token types in the same authorization. This example includes an instrument identifier, a payment instrument, and a customer token in the same authorization:
 "processingInformation": {
    "actionTokenTypes": [
        "instrumentIdentifier",
        "paymentInstrument",
        "customer"
]

Address Verification Service for Recurring Payments

If your processor supports the Address Verification Service (AVS), then the AVS should verify every authorization request.
Cybersource
 recommends checking the AVS's results for the first recurring payment to ensure that the payment information is accurate and to reduce the risk of fraud.
You must determine how to handle the AVS results for any subsequent recurring payments that are not the same as the already-verified billing address information from the first recurring payment.

Endpoint

Production:
POST
https://api.cybersource.com
/pts/v2/payments
Test:
POST
https://apitest.cybersource.com
/pts/v2/payments

Required Fields for Authorizing a Customer-Initiated Recurring Payment with
TMS

Use these required fields to request a customer-initiated recurring payment with
TMS
.
Set to
TOKEN_CREATE
.
Set to one or more of these values:
  • customer
  • instrumentIdentifier
  • paymentInstrument
Set to
internet
,
MOTO
, or a payer authentication value.
processingInformation.recurringOptions.firstRecurringPayment
Set to
true
.

REST Example: Authorizing a Customer-Initiated Recurring Payment with
TMS

Request 
        
{
  "processingInformation": {
    "actionList": [
      "TOKEN_CREATE"
    ],
    "actionTokenTypes": [
      "customer"
    ],
    "commerceIndicator": "internet",
    "recurringOptions": {
      "firstRecurringPayment": true
    }
  },
  "paymentInformation": {
    "card": {
      "number": "4111111111111111",
      "expirationMonth": "12",
      "expirationYear": "2031"
    }
  },
  "orderInformation": {
    "amountDetails": {
      "totalAmount": "102.21",
      "currency": "USD"
    },
    "billTo": {
      "firstName": "John",
      "lastName": "Doe",
      "address1": "1 Market St",
      "locality": "san francisco",
      "administrativeArea": "CA",
      "postalCode": "94105",
      "country": "US",
      "email": "
          ",
      "phoneNumber": ""
    }
  }
}
Response to a Successful Request 
        
{
  "_links": {
    "java.io.PrintWriter@3a13bf7c
authReversal": {
      "method": "POST",
      "href": "/pts/v2/payments/6976858134106105703954/reversals"
    },
    "self": {
      "method": "GET",
      "href": "/pts/v2/payments/6976858134106105703954"
    },
    "capture": {
      "method": "POST",
      "href": "/pts/v2/payments/6976858134106105703954/captures"
    }
  },
  "clientReferenceInformation": {
    "code": "1697685813462"
  },
  "id": "6976858134106105703954",
  "orderInformation": {
    "amountDetails": {
      "authorizedAmount": "102.21",
      "currency": "USD"
    }
  },
  "paymentAccountInformation": {
    "card": {
      "type": "001"
    }
  },
  "paymentInformation": {
    "tokenizedCard": {
      "type": "001"
    },
    "card": {
      "type": "001"
    }
  },
  "pointOfSaleInformation": {
    "terminalId": "111111"
  },
  "processorInformation": {
    "approvalCode": "888888",
    "networkTransactionId": "123456789619999",
    "transactionId": "123456789619999",
    "responseCode": "100",
    "avs": {
      "code": "X",
      "codeRaw": "I1"
    }
  },
  "reconciliationId": "62698397FNN143CC",
  "status": "AUTHORIZED",
  "submitTimeUtc": "2023-10-19T03:23:33Z",
  "tokenInformation": {
    "customer": {
      "id": "080A3A742BF87171E063A2598D0AEABE"
    }
  }
}