FuturePay Guide

FuturePay provides facilities for handling various forms of payments to be made at future dates, such as regular subscriptions or charges for services used. We provide two main categories of FuturePay agreement, Regular and Limited:

a Regular agreement sets up payments to happen at regular intervals, with the amount being either fixed at the start or varied by yourself as needed.
a Limited agreement allows variable payments to be taken at any time, but subject to certain limitations on amount and frequency that are set up at the start.
both kinds of agreements can run indefinitely or over a fixed time period.
either you or the customer can cancel an agreement at any time.

Both types of agreement are submitted to Web-Merchant/WM and processed in a manner similar to normal payments, with the addition of certain parameters. Before reading this document you should be familiar with the mechanisms described in the Select Integration Guide. The FuturePay parameters are added to your payment submission parameters. With Select Pro this is done via a FuturePay object that is added to the PurchaseToken (see the BuyThis servlet for an example). This documentation describes the additional parameters and also indicates any differences from standard usage for other parameters.