Important Notice
RBI issued
on recurring card payments which is applicable from 31 March 2021. Learn how these changes can affect your integration and how Razorpay is solving this.
You can use Razorpay Subscriptions to set up and manage recurring payments. These recurring payments are payments that:
- You can charge as per a billing model defined that you define.
- Do not require any intervention from the customer as the process is automated.
You can automatically charge customers based on a billing cycle that you control. It allows you to easily create and manage Subscriptions and get instant alerts on payment activity as well as the status of Subscriptions.
Razorpay automatically handles the invoicing for all Subscriptions.
What's New
- Provide a on desktop Standard Checkout for UPI Autopay to collect Subscriptions payments. (April 2023)
Watch this video for an overview of Razorpay Subscriptions.
Feature Request
- This is an on-demand feature. Please raise a request with our to get this feature activated on your Razorpay account.
- Watch this video to know how to raise a feature enablement request on the Razorpay Dashboard.
You must enable the Flash Checkout feature from the Razorpay Dashboard to proceed with Subscriptions.
Know more about the
feature.
To enable the Flash Checkout feature:
- Log in to the and click Account & Settings in the left menu.
- Click Flash checkout under Checkout settings.
- Enable the Flash Checkout feature.
To process subscription, customer card details will need to be secured/tokenised to process a subscription in accordance with Applicable Laws. Razorpay Checkout explicitly collects customer consent for tokenising the card to process e-mandate/subscription transactions.
As a fitness and well-being start-up, you would offer different fitness, nutrition, and mental well-being programs.
- For example, one of your customers may want to take the membership of one of your fitness programs. In this case, you may have to schedule debits for your customers manually.
- Using Razorpay Subscriptions, you can create a Plan and set up a mandate using cards to charge your customers on different frequencies for membership. This reduces the effort of scheduling debits manually. You can also run trials and offers and upgrade or downgrade the Plan as per your business needs.
Log in to the
and click Subscriptions under PAYMENT PRODUCTS in the left menu. If you do not have a Razorpay account, .
Below are the steps to get started with Subscriptions:
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A Plan is a base of a Subscription. A Plan contains all the information about the services such as the amount and the billing cycle.
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You can create a Subscription after creating a Plan. A Subscription contains Plan details, start date, number of billing cycles and other information.
Subscriptions does not require any intervention from the customer. It is an automated payment collection system that requires a one-time approval from the customer via an authentication transaction. Following points explain how a Subscription works:
- The customer’s approval is sought before recurring payments are collected. This approval process works just like any normal payments with the 3D Secure authentication step. This is what we refer to as an authentication transaction.
- After the authentication transaction is successfully completed, the card is automatically charged at the start of every billing cycle.
- For every recurring payment, Razorpay automatically generates an invoice that includes customer and Subscription details along with your branding.
Subscription Payment Flow
Razorpay Subscriptions is based on Razorpay’s existing
. If you are new to Razorpay, we recommend you to understand this flow before you proceed.
Subscriptions supports three different billing models:
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Fixed Schedule and Fixed Amount
The customer is charged a fixed amount at fixed intervals of time for a fixed quantity or goods or services. This is done by first creating a Plan with a fixed amount and fixed billing frequency, and then creating a Subscription based on this Plan with no add-ons.
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Fixed Schedule and Fixed Amount plus Add-ons
The customer is charged a fixed amount at fixed intervals of time, but can avail extra goods or services by paying an extra charge for them. This is done by first creating a Plan with a fixed amount and billing frequency, and then creating a Subscription based on this Plan. The extra goods or services availed can be added to the Subscription via add-ons.
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Fixed Schedule and Variable Amount
The customer is charged at fixed intervals of time according to their usage in the defined time interval. Here, the Subscription amount and the quantity of the goods or services are not fixed. This is done by first creating a Plan with a fixed amount (this can be as low as ₹1) and a billing frequency. You proceed to create a Subscription based on this plan and charge the customer a variable amount based on their usage via add-ons.
You can use Subscriptions to accept payment in any of our
. However, settlements are made in INR. Refer to and for more details.
