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Legacy and Upgraded Recurring Billing Feature Comparison

This table compares key features of the legacy Recurring Billing to the new Recurring Billing service.
Feature Comparison
Feature
Legacy Recurring Billing
Upgraded Recurring Billing
Subscription management
Create, manage, edit, cancel, suspend, and skip or unskip subscriptions.
Create, retrieve, amend, reactivate, suspend, and cancel subscriptions. To skip a payment, you can suspend and reactivate the subscription.
Plan management with subscription templates
Not available.
Full plan management that includes create, retrieve, amend, activate, deactivate, and delete.
Integration methods
SCMP API
Simple Order API
Secure Acceptance
REST API.
Online portal
Business Center
Create subscriptions in:
  • Recurring Billing
  • Virtual Terminal
  • Transaction management as a follow-on transaction
  • Batch upload
Business Center
Create subscriptions in:
  • Recurring Billing
  • Virtual Terminal (two steps)
Data security
Secure storage tokenization, legacy with end-of-life plan.
Token Management Service (TMS).
Failed transaction retry logic
Maximum of five system retries.
Maximum of four system retries.
Payment methods
Payment cards on major networks.
Bank accounts (ACH).
Payment cards on major networks.
Bank accounts (ACH).
Account Updater
Optional support on secure storage.
Optional support on TMS.