setBillingStartDate

Use the Open eBay Subscription service instead. For more information, see the Release Notes for the Open eBay Subscription Service. In both services, this call advances the billing start date for a subscription. The call is used when a subscriber wants to upgrade to a full subscription before the end of the free trial period. Use this request during the free trial period, between the subscription start date and the billing start date. Set, for example, seven days after the start of the free trial period. The application identity and token are sent in HTTPS header.



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setBillingStartDate Input

The box below lists all fields that could be included in the call request. To learn more about an individual field or its type, click its name in the box (or scroll down to find it in the table below the box).

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<setBillingStartDateRequest xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
  <billingStartDate> dateTime </billingStartDate>
  <planId> long </planId>
  <subscriptionId> long </subscriptionId>
  <userName> string </userName>
</setBillingStartDateRequest>
Argument Type Occurrence Meaning
billingStartDate dateTime Required Date from which a subscription begins to incur subscription charges.
planId long Required A planId is assigned by eBay to each subscription plan. Your application often uses this value in calls to the Open eBay Application Integration Service. Note that the planId is diffrent from the externalPlanId. In contrast to the planId, the externalPlanId is the value that you provide, as a "Developer Plan ID," when you create a subscription plan.
subscriptionId long Required For a particular application, the subscriptionId uniquely identifies a user's subscription.
userName string Required The eBay user ID of the subscriber.



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setBillingStartDate Output

The box below lists all fields that might be returned in the response. To learn more about an individual field or its type, click its name in the box (or scroll down to find it in the table below the box).

See also Samples.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<setBillingStartDateResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
  <!-- Standard Output Fields -->
  <ack> AckValue </ack>
  <errorMessage> ErrorMessage
    <error> ErrorData
      <category> ErrorCategory </category>
      <domain> string </domain>
      <errorId> long </errorId>
      <exceptionId> token </exceptionId>
      <message> string </message>
      <parameter name="string"> ErrorParameter (string) </parameter>
      <!-- ... more parameter nodes here ... -->
      <severity> ErrorSeverity </severity>
      <subdomain> string </subdomain>
    </error>
    <!-- ... more error nodes here ... -->
  </errorMessage>
  <timestamp> dateTime </timestamp>
  <version> string </version>
</setBillingStartDateResponse>
Return Value Type Occurrence Meaning
Standard Output Fields  
ack AckValue Always Indicates whether there are any errors or warnings associated with the processing of the request.

Applicable values:

•   Failure

(out) The request that triggered the error was not processed successfully. When a serious application-level error occurs, the error is returned instead of the business data.

•   PartialFailure

(out) The request that triggered the error was processed successfully but with some warnings.

•   Success

(out) The request was processed successfully, but something occurred that may affect your application or the user.

•   Warning

(out) The request that triggered the error was processed successfully but with some warnings.
errorMessage ErrorMessage Conditionally Information for an error or warning that occurred when eBay processed the request.
errorMessage.error ErrorData Conditionally,
repeatable: [0..*]		 ActivityProfile about a single error.
errorMessage.error.category ErrorCategory Conditionally There are three categories of errors: request errors, application errors, and system errors.

Applicable values:

•   Application

(out) An error occurred due to a problem with the request, such as missing or invalid fields. The problem must be corrected before the request can be made again. If the problem is due to something in the application (such as a missing required field), the application must be changed. Once the problem in the appilcation or data is resolved, resend the corrected request to eBay.

•   Request

(out) An error occurred due to a problem with the request, such as invalid or missing data. The problem must be corrected before the request can be made again. If the problem is a result of end-user data, the application must alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for the end-user to correct the data. Once the problem in the data is resolved, resend the request to eBay with the corrected data.

•   System

(out) Indicates that an error has occurred on the eBay system side, such as a database or server down. An application can retry the request as-is a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, the request may be resent in its original form.
errorMessage.error.domain string Conditionally Name of the domain upon which the error occurred.
Domains include:
Marketplace
A business or validation error occurred for the UserProfile Service.
SOA
An exception occurred in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework.
errorMessage.error.errorId long Conditionally A unique code that identifies the particular error condition that occurred. Your application can use error codes as identifiers in your customized error-handling algorithms.
errorMessage.error.exceptionId token Conditionally Unique identifier for an exception associated with an error.
errorMessage.error.message string Conditionally A detailed description of the condition that resulted in the error.
errorMessage.error.parameter ErrorParameter (string) Conditionally,
repeatable: [0..*]		 Some warning and error messages return one or more variables that contain contextual information about the error. This is often the field or value that triggered the error.
errorMessage.error.parameter
  [ attribute name ]		 string Conditionally The name of the parameter in the list of parameter types returned within the error type.
errorMessage.error.severity ErrorSeverity Conditionally Indicates whether the error caused the request to fail (Error) or not (Warning).

If the request fails and the source of the problem is within the application (such as a missing required element), please change the application before you retry the request. If the problem is due to end-user input data, please alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for them to correct the data. Once the problem in the application or data is resolved, you can attempt to re- send the request to eBay.

If the source of the problem is on eBay's side, you can retry the request as-is a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, the request may be resent in its original form.

When a warning occurs, the error is returned in addition to the business data. In this case, you do not need to retry the request (as the original request was successful). However, depending on the cause or nature of the warning, you might need to contact either the end user or eBay to effect a long term solution to the problem to prevent it from reoccurring in the future.

Applicable values:

•   Error

(out) The request that triggered the error was not processed successfully. When a serious application-level error occurs, the error is returned instead of the business data.

•   Warning

(out) The request was processed successfully, but something occurred that may affect your application or the user. For example, eBay may have changed a value the user sent in. In this case, eBay returns a normal, successful response and also returns the warning.
errorMessage.error.subdomain string Conditionally Name of the subdomain upon which the error occurred. Subdomains include the following: UserProfile (in which the error is specific to the UserProfile service) and MarketplaceCommon (in which the error is common to all Marketplace services).
timestamp dateTime Always The date and time when eBay processed the request. The time zone of this value is GMT and the format is the ISO 8601 date and time format (YYYY-MM- DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ). See Time Values in the eBay Web Services guide for information about this time format and converting to and from the GMT time zone.
version string Always Open eBay version.



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setBillingStartDate Samples

New to making API calls? Please see Making an API Call.

Note: Some item IDs, user IDs, or other data in these samples might no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, you can substitute current eBay data in your requests.

Sample: Basic Call

Requests that a start date be established for a subscription to a Selling Manager application.

Description

An application is requesting that a start date of September 8, 2009, be established for a subscriber under a plan ID.

Input

XML format (HTTP POST). Also available is the .txt version of this XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <setBillingStartDateRequest xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
        <!--You may enter ANY elements at this point-->
        <!--Optional:-->
        <planId>1005</planId>
        <!--Optional:-->
        <subscriptionId>SubscriptionID</subscriptionId>
        <!--Optional:-->
        <userName>UserName</userName>
        <!--Optional:-->
        <billingStartDate>2009-09-08</billingStartDate>
    </setBillingStartDateRequest>

Output

XML format. Also available is the .txt version of this XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <setBillingStartDateResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
      <ack>Success</ack>
      <version>1.2.0</version>
        <timestamp>2009-09-09T06:56:54.752Z</timestamp>
    </setBillingStartDateResponse>



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setBillingStartDate Change History
Version Description
1.2.0
2009-09-09
  • (added) New call



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