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Update a subscription plan/product

Last updated: 13-Oct-2021
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Overview

Use the updateProduct method to update the configuration of a subscription plan/product you already configured for your account. 

Parameters

Parameters Type/Description

sessionID

Required (string)

 

Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. Avangate throws an exception if the values are incorrect.  The sessionID expires in 10 minutes.

Product

Required (object)

 

Use this object to configure your subscription plans/products.

 

You can update/edit all parameters, except the following:

  • AvangateID
  • ProductType

 

Exceptions

 

When updating a subscription plan/product, you also update its PricingConfigurations. However, you cannot modify:

  • The pricing configuration CODE.
  • The PricingSchema from DYNAMIC to FLAT or vice versa.
  • The intervals of an existing pricing configuration (MinQuantity and MaxQuantity). 

Response

bool(true)

Request

​
<?php

function callRPC($Request, $hostUrl, $Debug = true) {
    $curl = curl_init($hostUrl);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json'));
    $RequestString = json_encode($Request);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $RequestString);

    if ($Debug) {
        $RequestString;
    }
    $ResponseString = curl_exec($curl);
    if ($Debug) {
        $ResponseString;
    }

    if (!empty($ResponseString)) {
//        var_dump($ResponseString);
        $Response = json_decode($ResponseString);
        if (isset($Response->result)) {
            return $Response->result;
        }
        if (!is_null($Response->error)) {
            var_dump($Request->method, $Response->error);
        }
    } else {
        return null;
    }
}

$host = 'https://api.avangate.com/rpc/3.0/';

$merchantCode = "YOURCODE12345";//your account's merchant code available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php
$key = "SECRET_KEY";//your account's secret key available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php

$string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen(gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s')) . gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key);

$i = 1; // counter for api calls

// Call the login method for authentication

$jsonRpcRequest = new stdClass();
$jsonRpcRequest->jsonrpc = '2.0';
$jsonRpcRequest->method = 'login';
$jsonRpcRequest->params = array($merchantCode, gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $hash);
$jsonRpcRequest->id = $i++;

$sessionID = callRPC($jsonRpcRequest, $host);

$ProductCode = 'NewProdCodeAPI12345';

$jsonRpcRequest = array (
'jsonrpc' => '2.0',
'id' => $i++,
'method' => 'getProductByCode',
'params' => array($sessionID, $ProductCode)
);

$myProduct = callRPC($jsonRpcRequest, $host);

$myProduct->ProductName = 'Edited_From_API_Again';

var_dump ($myProduct);

$jsonRpcRequest = array (
'jsonrpc' => '2.0',
'id' => $i++,
'method' => 'updateProduct',
'params' => array($sessionID, $myProduct)
);

$updatedProduct = callRPC($jsonRpcRequest, $host);
var_dump ($updatedProduct);


?>

Example response
bool(true)
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