When you create recurring payments for a buyer, you create a recurring payments profile. The profile contains information about the recurring payments, including details for an optional trial period and a regular payment period. Each of these subscription periods contains information about the payment frequency and payment amounts, including shipping and tax, if applicable.

After a profile is created, PayPal automatically queues payments based on the billing start date, billing frequency, and billing amount, until the profile expires or is canceled by the merchant. The buyer can also cancel the recurring payments profile.

Note that the queued payments are funded using the normal funding source hierarchy within the buyer’s PayPal account.

After the recurring payments profile is created, you can view recurring payments details or cancel the recurring payments profile from your PayPal account.You can also access recurring payments reports from the PayPal Business Overview page.

Also, after creating a recurring payments profile, you can use the Recurring Payments API to do the following:

• Get information details about a recurring payments profile.

• Change the status of a recurring payment profile.

• Update the details of the recurring payments profile.

• Bill the outstanding amount of the recurring payments profile.