Paddle Billing
Search

Developer Changelog

Sign up to get notified when our API evolves. Absolutely no marketing emails, we promise.
Filters
Scheduled
Oct 21, 2024
Platform
Notifications

To improve performance when working with events and notifications, the Paddle API will no longer return notifications or events older than 90 days.

Early access
Sep 17, 2024
Platform
Transactions

When you create and send invoices, Paddle now generates unique bank transfer account numbers for each customer. This means invoices can be reconciled more efficiently. Now in early access.

Sep 11, 2024
Platform
Customers
Subscriptions
Transactions
Adjustments

Let customers manage their own subscriptions, payments, and account information using the customer portal. Now in developer preview.

Jun 30, 2024
Paddle.js
Checkout
Transactions

Let customers review their order details, enter their address and payment details, and complete purchase all on one page. Now in early access.

October 2024
Oct 7, 2024
API
Subscriptions

Pause subscriptions in trial at the end of the trial period. They move out of trial when they're resumed.

September 2024
Sep 18, 2024

Make testing and integration easier by using webhook simulator to simulate webhooks for single events or predefined scenarios, like a new subscription or successful renewal.

Sep 18, 2024
SDK
Paddle.js

Use our starter kit to build a Next.js app with Paddle Billing, including a localized pricing page, integrated inline checkout, and screens for customers to manage their payments. Deploy to Vercel in a couple of clicks.

Sep 2, 2024
Platform
Adjustments

For customer record keeping, Paddle automatically sends a credit note (sometimes called a credit memo) when you refund or credit a transaction. Use the new /adjustments/{adjustment_id}/credit-note endpoint to generate them using the API.

August 2024
Aug 29, 2024
Transactions

Use a new query parameter to determine whether generated URLs for PDFs should download the file as an attachment saved locally, or open it inline in the browser.

Aug 15, 2024
SDK
Action Required

You can use our Go SDK to streamline integrating with Paddle Billing. We released major version 1, which means breaking changes result in a new version.

Aug 1, 2024
Platform
Subscriptions

Add recurring items to a subscription without having to add them to your product catalog by passing price or product attributes when updating a subscription.

July 2024
Jul 31, 2024
Platform
Subscriptions

When pausing subscriptions, past due renewal transactions are now automatically canceled. This means past due transactions for uncompleted billing periods are not automatically collected on resume.

Jul 8, 2024
API
Subscriptions

Subscription items now return the related product object, useful for showing product name, image, and other information your frontend. The returned product is a snapshot of the product at the time it was added to the subscription.

Jul 1, 2024
Platform
Subscriptions

Use do_not_bill as the proration billing mode when changing a subscription billing frequency, like when customers upgrade to an annual plan from a monthly plan.

June 2024
Jun 28, 2024
Platform
Adjustments

Paddle now automatically approves refunds every ten minutes for sandbox accounts, making testing easier. For live accounts, Paddle automatically approves refunds in some cases.

Jun 10, 2024
Platform

Paddle platform users in countries that use Australian or Canadian dollars can now hold their balance in their local currency, reducing FX fees for payouts.

Jun 7, 2024
Paddle.js
Checkout
Catalog

Use the allowDiscountRemoval parameter or data-allow-discount-removal HTML data attribute when working with Paddle.js to hide the option to remove an applied discount at checkout.

May 2024
May 7, 2024
SDK

Use our Go SDK to streamline integrating with Paddle Billing. Core operations are available now — including products, customers, and subscription management — with full feature parity with the API coming soon. Available now on GitHub.

April 2024
Apr 29, 2024
Retain
Paddle.js
Subscriptions

Use Cancellation Flows where you haven't passed a customer to Paddle Retain.

Apr 24, 2024
SDK

Use our Python SDK to streamline integrating with Paddle Billing. Fully-featured from webhook verification to every API operation. Available now on GitHub.

Apr 15, 2024
API
Notifications

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

Apr 10, 2024
Retain
Subscriptions
Transactions

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.

Apr 3, 2024
Paddle.js
Transactions

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.

Apr 1, 2024
Transactions
Subscriptions
Platform

Manually-collected subscriptions now become past_due when payment terms against invoices for subscription renewals elapse.

March 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Platform
Checkout
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.

Mar 22, 2024
Platform
Email

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.

Mar 18, 2024
API
Customers
Notifications

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

Mar 12, 2024
API
Customers
Notifications

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

Mar 11, 2024
Platform
Email

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

Mar 11, 2024
API
Transactions
Subscriptions

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.

Mar 6, 2024
API
Reporting

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

Mar 1, 2024
Paddle.js
Checkout
Action Required

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

February 2024
Feb 20, 2024
SDK
Action Required

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.

Feb 15, 2024
API
SDK

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

Feb 14, 2024
Paddle.js
Retain
Platform

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.

Feb 12, 2024
API
Catalog

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

Feb 7, 2024
API
Subscriptions

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.

January 2024
Jan 24, 2024
Paddle.js
Checkout
Platform

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

Jan 18, 2024
API
Transactions

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.

Jan 15, 2024
API
Customers

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

Jan 12, 2023
Platform
Retain
Subscriptions

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.

Jan 11, 2024
SDK

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.

December 2023
Dec 21, 2023
Paddle.js
Platform

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

Dec 21, 2023
API
Transactions

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.

Dec 20, 2023
Platform
Subscriptions

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

Dec 19, 2023
Platform
Transactions

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

Dec 18, 2023
API
Platform
Subscriptions

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.

Dec 13, 2023
API
Reporting

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

Dec 12, 2023
Platform
Import

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

Dec 11, 2023
API
Platform
Reporting

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

Dec 5, 2023
Paddle.js
Retain

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

Dec 1, 2023
Paddle.js
Checkout

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.

November 2023
Nov 30, 2023
API
Transactions

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

Nov 28, 2023
Platform
Email
Checkout

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.

Nov 23, 2023
Platform
Checkout
Email

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

Nov 22, 2023
Paddle.js
Retain
Subscriptions

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.

Nov 14, 2023
API
Email
Checkout

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

Nov 8, 2023
API
Catalog

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

Nov 3, 2023
Platform
Subscriptions
Email

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.

October 2023
Oct 28, 2023
Paddle.js
Catalog

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

Oct 27, 2023
Paddle.js
Checkout
Platform

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

Oct 24, 2023
API
Transactions

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.

Oct 13, 2023
API
Subscriptions

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

Oct 6, 2023
API
Transactions

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.

Oct 6, 2023
API
Subscriptions

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

Oct 5, 2023
Platform
Subscriptions

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.

Oct 4, 2023
Paddle.js
Checkout
Customers

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.

Oct 3, 2023
API
Transactions

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.

Oct 3, 2023
API
Subscriptions

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

Oct 2, 2023
Paddle.js
SDK

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

September 2023
Sep 29, 2023
Paddle.js
Checkout

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

Sep 28, 2023
Paddle.js
Catalog
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.

Sep 28, 2023
Platform
Subscriptions
Transactions
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.

Sep 27, 2023
Paddle.js
Checkout

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.

Sep 22, 2023
Platform

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

Sep 21, 2023
API
Customers

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

Sep 20, 2023
API
Transactions
Notifications

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.

Sep 15, 2023
API
Adjustments
Customers

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.

Sep 13, 2023
API
Subscriptions

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

Sep 13, 2023
Platform
Subscriptions

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

Sep 8, 2023
API
Notifications

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

Sep 8, 2023
API
Notifications

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

August 2023
Aug 22, 2023
API
Subscriptions

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.

Aug 9, 2023
Platform

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.

July 2023
Jul 20, 2023
API
Subscriptions

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

Jul 18, 2023
API
Catalog

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.

Jul 10, 2023
API
Transactions

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.

Jul 6, 2023
API
Catalog

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

June 2023
Jun 29, 2023
API
Subscriptions
Transactions

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.

Jun 28, 2023
API
Catalog

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

Jun 23, 2023
API
Transactions

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

Jun 23, 2023
API
Transactions
Adjustments

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

Jun 20, 2023
API
Notifications

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

Jun 15, 2023
API
Notifications

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.

Jun 13, 2023
Paddle.js
Catalog
Checkout

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.

Jun 5, 2023
API
Transactions

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.