Overview
Subscription Payment allows your business to set up recurring payments as part of your online billing system for your website or application, while your buyers can pay your services on a regular basis (monthly, quarterly, annually, etc.). This feature works seamlessly across different platforms, including Web, WAP, and mobile apps. With just a single integration, you can offer buyers access to multiple payment methods, such as digital wallets, credit/debit cards, and bank transfers. Buyers can select their preferred payment methods for subscriptions, ensuring a smooth, fast, and secure payment experience.
Subscription Payment is ideal for scenarios requiring regular automatic charges for membership fees or service fees, such as:
- Online gaming/Gaming platforms: Subscription-based online games or platforms (e.g., Sony PlayStation Plus or World of Warcraft subscriptions).
- Content creator subscriptions: Subscription services for channels or influencers (e.g., YouTube channel memberships).
Product description
A one-time setup solution supports multiple payment methods, allows flexible scheduling of billing cycles.
Features
- Diverse application scenarios: Subscription Payment is applicable to diverse scenarios such as membership subscriptions, online subscriptions for physical products, and recurring top-ups or bill payments.
- One-time integration: You only need to integrate once to support all types of devices (Web/WAP/App) and various payment methods. Simply guide buyers to activate subscription payments, and Antom will handle automatic recurring collections for you.
- Customizable subscription settings: You can tailor subscription cycle based on business scenarios and buyer preferences. For example, set monthly, bi-monthly, or longer intervals as subscription periods.
- Customizable promotional settings: Antom Subscription Payment allows you to configure promotional offers such as a one-month free trial, "Buy One, Get N Free" deals (where buyers receive N free periods after one paid cycle), customizable promotional durations and pricing, pre-sales for upcoming products, and more. You can also boost buyer retention with auto renewals following the trial period.
Advantages
- Global payment methods coverage: Supports the most popular payment methods worldwide, empowering you to conduct business in any region across the globe. For more details, refer to the "SUPPORTED INTEGRATIONS" section on the payment method overview.
- Sustained revenue growth: Boosts revenue with advanced risk control capabilities and high transaction success rates, delivering higher profitability to your business.
- Optimal user experience: Offers an all-in-one integration solution with multiple integration options for multiple devices, alongside fast settlement services, ensuring a seamless payment journey for merchants and buyers.
- Efficient and convenient integration: Facilitates quick, secure, and user-friendly payment processing to help you rapidly expand into global markets.
Benefits
- Enhanced buyer loyalty: Automatically renew subscriptions after trial periods to maintain consistent revenue streams while keeping customers actively engaged with your products or services.
- Customizable promotions for revenue growth: Drive higher conversion rates and boost sales with flexible promotional offers such as "Buy One, Get N Free", time-limited discounts, and pre-sales for upcoming products.
- Unified user experience: Offer secure and convenient payment options that ensure a seamless checkout process, minimizing interruptions and increasing buyer satisfaction and long-term loyalty.
User experience
The following illustration shows the user journey for B2B via eShop on mobile devices:
Integration options
Subscription Payment product currently supports API-only integration, for more details, see Integration guide.
Integration resources
Subscription Payment supports the following capabilities. Refer to Choose your integration path to explore the integration that best suits your business needs.
Integration option | Description | ||
Payment Element | Checkout Page | API | |
You can use the corresponding API to create a subscription and guide the buyer to authorize the subscription. | |||
You can use this API to terminate or cancel a subscription immediately after the current cycle. | |||
You can use this API to update the subscription details include the subscription cycle rule, the payment amount for each subscription cycle, cycle start date, addtional payment and refund, or other information. | |||
Antom notifies you of the subscription result through this API. | |||
Antom notifies you of the payment result for each subscription cycle through this API. | |||
Antom notifies you of the refund result, but only in scenarios where a refund occurs during a subscription update. | |||
You can use this API to query a list of subscriptions that match specific filter conditions. | |||
You can use this API to obtain detailed information about specific subscriptions, including their status, period, amount, etc. | |||
You can use this API to retrieve a list of payments for a subscription such as transactions time, phase number, payment method, amount, etc. | |||
Payment flow
Subscription Payment includes the following steps:
- Subscription activation: Call the create API to activate the subscription service.
- Subscription payment notification: After completing the periodic deduction, Antom notifies you of the payment result through the notifyPayment API.
- OptionalSubscription change: Use the update API to change subscription details.
- Subscription cancellation or termination: Call the cancel API to cancel subscription renewals or terminate subscription services immediately.
Subscription activation & recurring payments
The following figures show the subscription payment flow with APM or cards:
APM payments
Card payments
Change or terminate subscriptions
The following figures illustrate the processes for changing, canceling, or terminating the subscription service:
Change subscriptions
Terminate subscriptions
