Getting Started with Maxio Advanced Billing

Introduction

Maxio Advanced Billing (formerly Chargify) provides an HTTP-based API that conforms to the principles of REST. One of the many reasons to use Advanced Billing is the immense feature set and surrounding community client libraries. The Maxio API returns JSON responses as the primary and recommended format, but XML is also provided as a backwards compatible option for Merchants who require it.

Steps to make your first Maxio Advanced Billing API call

1. Sign-up or log-in to your test site account.
2. Setup and configure authentication credentials.
3. Submit your API request and try it out.
4. Verify results through response.
5. Test our integrations.

We strongly suggest exploring the developer portal, our integrations and the API guide, as well as the entire set of application-based documentation to aid in your discovery of the product.

Example

The following example uses the curl command-line tool to execute API requests.

Request

curl -u <api_key>:x -H Accept:application/json -H Content-Type:application/json https://acme.chargify.com/subscriptions.json

Install the Package

Run the following command from your project directory to install the package from npm:

npm install @maxio-com/[email protected]

For additional package details, see the Npm page for the @maxio-com/[email protected] npm.

Initialize the API Client

Note: Documentation for the client can be found here.

The following parameters are configurable for the API Client:

Parameter	Type	Description
site	string	The subdomain for your Advanced Billing site. Default: 'subdomain'
environment	Environment	The API environment. Default: Environment.US
timeout	number	Timeout for API calls. Default: 120000
httpClientOptions	Partial<HttpClientOptions>	Stable configurable http client options.
unstableHttpClientOptions	any	Unstable configurable http client options.
basicAuthCredentials	BasicAuthCredentials	The credential object for basicAuth

HttpClientOptions

Parameter	Type	Description
timeout	number	Timeout in milliseconds.
httpAgent	any	Custom http agent to be used when performing http requests.
httpsAgent	any	Custom https agent to be used when performing http requests.
retryConfig	Partial<RetryConfiguration>	Configurations to retry requests.

RetryConfiguration

Parameter	Type	Description
maxNumberOfRetries	number	Maximum number of retries. Default: 0
retryOnTimeout	boolean	Whether to retry on request timeout. Default: true
retryInterval	number	Interval before next retry. Used in calculation of wait time for next request in case of failure. Default: 1
maximumRetryWaitTime	number	Overall wait time for the requests getting retried. Default: 0
backoffFactor	number	Used in calculation of wait time for next request in case of failure. Default: 2
httpStatusCodesToRetry	number[]	Http status codes to retry against. Default: [408, 413, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504, 521, 522, 524]
httpMethodsToRetry	HttpMethod[]	Http methods to retry against. Default: ['GET', 'PUT']

The API client can be initialized as follows:

const client = new Client({
  basicAuthCredentials: {
    username: 'BasicAuthUserName',
    password: 'BasicAuthPassword'
  },
  timeout: 120000,
  environment: Environment.US,
  site: 'subdomain',
});

Environments

The SDK can be configured to use a different environment for making API calls. Available environments are:

Fields

Name	Description
US	Default Default Advanced Billing environment hosted in US. Valid for the majority of our customers.
EU	Advanced Billing environment hosted in EU. Use only when you requested EU hosting for your AB account.

Authorization

This API uses the following authentication schemes.

• BasicAuth (Basic Authentication)

List of APIs

• API Exports
• Advance Invoice
• Billing Portal
• Component Price Points
• Custom Fields
• Events-Based Billing Segments
• Payment Profiles
• Product Families
• Product Price Points
• Proforma Invoices
• Reason Codes
• Referral Codes
• Sales Commissions
• Subscription Components
• Subscription Groups
• Subscription Group Invoice Account
• Subscription Group Status
• Subscription Invoice Account
• Subscription Notes
• Subscription Products
• Subscription Status
• Coupons
• Components
• Customers
• Events
• Insights
• Invoices
• Offers
• Products
• Sites
• Subscriptions
• Webhooks

Classes Documentation

• ApiResponse
• ApiError