Developer Changelog

Prorated changes to a subscription are now reflected on a transaction, rather than using separate adjustments. Item quantities, item amounts, and totals against a transaction may be negative, and there's a new credit_to_balance field in transaction totals.

The list notification settings operation is now paginated, making it easier work with a large number of notification settings.

Gather insights into why a customer wants to cancel and present them with dynamic salvage attempts while remaining fully compliant in regions with one-click cancellation legislation.

Build advanced, cart-style pricing pages or other pages that present overall totals using a new method in Paddle.js. No need to make server-side calls to the Paddle API.

Accept payments using Bancontact, the most popular payment method in Belgium. bancontact is a new allowed value for method_details.type for payments against a transaction.

Emails for sandbox accounts are only sent to your registered email domain. Where email addresses with other domains are used for testing, they'll be forwarded to the main email address for your account.

Distinguish between declined payments that should not be retried, and declined payments with no further information.

Use the customer_id returned in address and business notifications to more easily work with addresses and businesses for a customer in the API.

Sandbox emails now come from the withpaddle.com domain, so it's easier to filter them when testing.

Export information about products, prices, and discounts as a spreadsheet to better understand your data using two new reports.

Use the new Paddle.Update() method to update pwCustomer and eventCallback after you've initialized Paddle.js. Plus, Paddle.Initialize() replaces Paddle.Setup().

You can use our PHP or Node.js SDKs to streamline integrating with Paddle Billing. We released 1.0.0, which means breaking changes result in a new version.

Download an OpenAPI spec file for our API or fork our Postman collection to better work with the Paddle API programmatically.

Paddle Retain now supports using the same client-side tokens as Paddle Billing for authentication. There's no need to pass pwAuth and a Retain API key to Paddle.Initialize() anymore.

Products and prices now return created and updated dates, making them consistent with other entities in the Paddle API.

subscription.items[].price now returns all fields against the price entity, rather than a subset of fields. The fields returned are a snapshot of the price at the time it was added to the subscription.

Paddle Checkout now shows preferred local currencies in some regions, instead of US Dollars. Existing subscriptions are not impacted.

More easily work with payment methods against a transaction payment attempt using the new payment_method_id field. stored_payment_method_id is now considered deprecated.

Use the new email query parameter when listing customers to filter by email address.

Term Optimization is now available for Paddle Billing! Intelligently identify customers on a monthly plan who are likely to upgrade to a plan with a longer term length.

Use our PHP or Node.js SDKs to streamline integrating with Paddle Billing. Fully-featured from webhook verification to every API operation. Available now on GitHub.

Pass a new allowedPaymentMethods parameter when opening a checkout using Paddle.js to choose which payment methods are presented to customers.

See which payment methods are valid for the prices and location passed to a price preview or a transaction preview using the new available_payment_methods field in the API.

Bill a one-time item to a subscription without having to add it to your product catalog by passing price or product attributes.

Charge for an item without having to add it to your product catalog by passing price or product attributes when working with a transaction.

Upgrade a subscription, add items, bill for one-time changes, and change billing dates for a subscription even when payment fails by including the new on_payment_failure property when updating a subscription.

Export data from your Paddle system using the API as well as the Paddle web app. Create reports using the /reports endpoint, then download them using /reports/{report_id}/download-url endpoint.

Get information about how an entity was imported with the new import_meta object against products, prices, discounts, customers, addresses, businesses, and subscriptions.

Export information about transaction line items and adjustment line items as a spreadsheet to better understand your data and reconcile account activity.

Check you've installed Paddle.js with Retain correctly and see for yourself what Retain looks like using the new Paddle.Retain.demo() method.

customer.business.name no longer requires customer.address, so you can prefill a business name at checkout even if you haven't captured address information yet.

Use the new origin query parameter when listing transactions to filter by how they were created.

Merhaba! Paddle now supports the Turkish locale for Paddle Checkout and subscription emails. tr is now an allowed value for the locale parameter when passing settings to a checkout.

More easily distinguish emails sent from your sandbox account and your live account. Sandbox emails now include a [TEST] prefix in the subject.

Cancellation Flows are now available for Paddle Billing! Use the new Paddle.Retain.initCancellationFlow() method in Paddle.js to start a cancellation flow for a subscription.

Set names for prices and show them on checkouts, invoices, and emails from Paddle using the new name field against price entities.

Include an object of custom_data with requests when creating or updating discounts to store your own arbitrary key-value data.

Emails from Paddle when customers start a zero value subscription make it clear that they've saved a payment method. No receipt is sent. We also changed the wording when customers cancel these kinds of subscriptions.

Use the Paddle.PricePreview() method in Paddle.js to build pricing pages without making server-side calls to the Paddle API.

Pass a client-side token to Paddle.Initialize() to authenticate with Paddle.js. There's no need to pass your seller ID anymore.

Cardholder name is now returned in transaction.payments[].method_details.card, so you can build billing information pages or integrations that show the name on the card used for a payment attempt.

Filter to see subscriptions with a scheduled change to pause, cancel, or resume using the scheduled_change_action query parameter.

Pass an approved domain to checkout.url when creating a transaction to specify an approved domain for the returned checkout link rather than using your default payment link.

Pass a list of subscription IDs when listing subscriptions using the id query parameter to return subscriptions that match.

Pause or cancel a subscription right away, rather than at the end of the billing period. immediately is now an accepted allowed value for effective_from when sending a request to pause or cancel a subscription.

Use the new showAddTaxId parameter or show-add-tax-id HTML data attribute when working with Paddle.js to hide the option to add tax and business information at checkout.

Get a list of transactions that aren't related to a subscription by passing null as a value for the subscription_id query parameter when listing transactions. Use this to see transactions for single purchases.

List only automatically-collected or manually-collected subscriptions using the new collection_mode query parameter.

Load Paddle.js as a module and use TypeScript definitions when working with its methods.

Pass items, discount, and customer information to the new Paddle.Checkout.updateCheckout() method to update an open checkout.

Use the new showAddDiscounts parameter or show-add-discount HTML data attribute when working with Paddle.js to hide the option to add a discount at checkout.

Let customers pay for subscriptions using Apple Pay and Google Pay, with no engineering effort required on your part. You may see apple_pay and google_pay as values for transaction.payments[].method_details.type when working with subscription-related transactions.

Listen to the new checkout.warning event to get details about invalid or missing information passed to a checkout when opening, so you can handle problems in your frontend.

Create prices, discounts, transactions, and subscriptions in Colombian Peso. COP is a new allowed value for currency_code for payments.

Include an object of custom_data with requests when creating or updating customers, addresses, and businesses to store your own arbitrary key-value data.

Subscribe to the new transaction.paid event to get notified when a transaction is paid but not yet fully processed. transaction.completed now include details of the related subscription and invoice number.

List credit balances for a customer using the new /customers/{customer_id}/credit-balances endpoint to see how much credit a customer has to use, and how much credit they've previously used.

Send a request to the /subscriptions/{subscription_id}/activate endpoint to immediately activate a trialing subscription.

Add or remove recurring items, change quantities, bill for one-time charges, and change the next billing date for subscriptions in trial.

Subscribe to notifications for payouts for Paddle to get notified when payouts are initiated (payout.created) and when they're paid (payout.paid.)

Subscribe to notifications for discount events to get notified when discounts are created (discount.created) and when they're updated (discount.updated.)

Check the new update_summary object returned when previewing an update to a subscription or billing for a one-time charge to get an overview of any prorated credits and charges created as a result of the change.

Paddle Classic customers can now opt in to Paddle Billing to try the latest features. Paddle Billing shares some settings with Classic, but has its own data and API so your existing subscriptions and integration aren't impacted.

Present charge totals to a customer before billing a one-time charge to a subscription using the new /subscriptions/{id}/charge/preview endpoint.

Get localized prices for a country, including taxes and discount calculation using the new /price-preview endpoint. Paddle returns formatted prices, including currency symbol, so you can pass straight to your frontend.

Use the new subscription_charge allowed value for the origin field against a transaction to more easily determine why a transaction was created for a subscription.

Include an object of custom_data with requests when creating or updating products and prices to store your own arbitrary key-value data.

Use the new /subscriptions/{subscription_id}/update-payment-method-transaction endpoint to get a transaction that you can pass to Paddle.js to let customers update their payment details.

Filter to see recurring or one-time prices when using the list prices operation with the recurring query parameter.

See how transaction totals and payout totals look after adjustments using the transaction.details.adjusted_totals and transaction.details.adjusted_payout_totals.

Use the adjustments_totals include parameter to return a total for all the adjustments against a transaction, including a breakdown by adjustment action.

Resend a notification that's delivered or failed using the new /notifications/{notification_id}/replay endpoint.

Find all notifications that relate to a customer, subscription, or transaction entity using the new filter query parameter. Plus, filter notifications by date period using the from and to parameters.

We added a new discountCode parameter and data-discount-code HTML data attribute to Paddle.js to let you pass a discount code when opening a checkout.

Get the amount that a customer has to pay more easily using the new transaction.details.totals.grand_total field against totals for a transaction. It's especially useful for completed transactions.