Overview

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:

Plans

• 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

Customers

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

Subscriptions

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