We're building a marketplace website where vendors can have a business listing on a Paypal mthly subscription basis.
All vendors get an admin when signing up.
Query :- Could we set it up so a Paypal subscription could be paused by a vendor by clicking a button in their admin, . . . pause their subscription for an indefinite period, . . . and then the subscriber clicks a button in their admin and starts the subscription up again seamlessly without having to do any resigning up anywhere?
Scenario : We have a Basic Listing (free) and Premium Listing (subscription), they sign up for the Premium, but want to pause it by clicking a button 'Downgrade to Basic Listing" where their subscription is paused and their listing is downgraded to Basic Listing, . . . but then they want to turn Premium back on (click a button called “Turn on Premium Listing Again”, and get back their remaining mthly subscription time that was still owing for the month which would push their mthly rollover time out, . . . or if they want to turn it on after the month is up and still get back the time they paid for but didn't end up getting as a Premium Listing?
Is any scenario like this possible? What’s the best way to handle this?
If you integrate the newest Subscriptions API, there is a call to Suspend Subscription.
Presumably it can then be Activated once more (you can test this)
By the way, as far as I am aware the newest version of the Subscriptions API and underlying Catalog/Products and newest format Billing Plan/Agreement APIs (which are not the same as previous versions of the same-named API calls) are not supported by any of the current PayPal SDKs -- so to use so if you do integrate this new Subscriptions API, you need your own direct REST API HTTPS calls, to first exchange a clientid:secret for an oauth2 access_token and call each endpoint.