PayPal subscription : Changing next billing date

Question

I want to change next billing date of existing subscription i.e. extend it by N days. And I don't want to create new plan for it Is there any way to achieve this?

I want to know if it's possible in paypal to change next billing date or not

Answer 1

Try using the Update Subscription patch API call to change the start_time.

You may need to first pause and then resume the subscription with the respective API calls.

I have not tested this, and it may not work. It is possible to override the plan_id with a custom plan object that has a different billing_cycle, but as far as I know setting a trial of a different total_cycles:1 and then auto resuming the regular billing cycle will not work. You would need to set a single billing cycle for the new period then after the first payment update it again to be the usual cycle.