Message: Recurring Installment Failed

Description: Recurring orders bill automatically according to schedule, but billings are not always successful. This message will allow you to automate any processes which should be keyed off installment billing failure, such as suspension of login credentials.

This message will send the information based on the last successful installment billed, in other words, the invoice number is the last invoice successfully billed, installments_billed is not incremented, and date_next will often be a date in the past, indicating the original due date for the missed billing.

Recurring Installment Failed is an item level message; it will be sent once for each recurring item which fails to bill and will only contain information about that item.

Please note this message will be identical (except for dates) whether it is the first attempt or a retry.

Within each message section page, the parameters highlighted (like this *) are the parameters we believe will be most useful in updating your systems, or which are most relevant to that specific message.

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Ex. RecurringĀ  installment fails
message_type=RECURRING_INSTALLMENT_FAILED *
message_description=Recurring installment failed to bill
timestamp=2007-10-01 15:30:44
md5_hash=99229B8BD0828FBC41CD0FE5DD80A7C0
message_id=1
key_count=50
vendor_id=12345
sale_id=2223334445 *
sale_date_placed=2007-01-01 15:30:44
vendor_order_id= *
invoice_id=234567890 *
recurring=1
payment_type=credit card
list_currency=GBP
cust_currency=JPY
customer_first_name=John
customer_last_name=Smith
customer_name=John Smith
customer_email=jsmith@yahoo.com
customer_phone=6149212450
customer_ip=1.1.1.1
customer_ip_country=United States
bill_street_address=55 Lane Ave.
bill_street_address2=
bill_city=Mytown
bill_state=NV
bill_postal_code=55555
bill_country=USA
ship_status=
ship_tracking_number=
ship_name=
ship_street_address=
ship_street_address2=
ship_city=
ship_state=
ship_postal_code=
ship_country=
item_count=1
item_name_1=t-shirt
item_id_1=12 *
item_list_amount_1=5.00
item_usd_amount_1=2.50
item_cust_amount_1=250
item_type_1=bill
Item_duration_1=1 Year
item_recurrence_1=1 Month
item_rec_list_amount_1=5.00
item_rec_status_1=live
item_rec_date_next_1=2007-11-01 *
item_rec_install_billed_1=10 *