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Determining the initial bill date for a plan through the API

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sean

20 Jan, 2011 04:03 PM

I am trying to figure out what the configured billing delay of a plan via the API but the only relevant parameter I am finding in the returned XML for plans is "trialDays". As far as I can tell from searching around the forums, this parameter is deprecated and never returns a non-zero value.

Is there anyway for me to get at this information or am I stuck without it?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Marc Guyer on 20 Jan, 2011 04:38 PM

   

   Hi Sean -- There currently isn't a way to get that from the API. The delayed first bill is a recent improvement and the config was not added to the plan XML. However, it's such a simple change, we've added it into our current maintenance release which should be deployed within a couple of days. The new XML nodes within the <plan> node are:

   <initialBillCount>0</initialBillCount>
   <initialBillCountUnit>days</initialBillCountUnit>
   

   The unit can be either days or months.

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2. 2 Posted by sean on 20 Jan, 2011 04:43 PM

   

   Awesome! Thanks for the quick response & fix.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Marc Guyer on 25 Jan, 2011 01:17 PM

   

   No problem Sean. This is deployed. Thanks for the tweet!

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4. Marc Guyer closed this discussion on 25 Jan, 2011 01:17 PM.