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 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 authentication credentials.
3. Submit an API request and verify the response.
4. Test the Advanced Billing integrations.

Next, you can explore authentication methods, basic concepts for interacting with Advanced Billing via the API, and the entire set of application-based documentation to aid in your discovery of the product.

Request Example

The following example uses the curl command-line tool to make an API request.

Request

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

Install the Package

The package is compatible with Python versions 3.7+. Install the package from PyPi using the following pip command:

pip install maxio-advanced-billing-sdk==10.0.0

You can also view the package at: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/maxio-advanced-billing-sdk/10.0.0

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	str	The subdomain for your Advanced Billing site. Default: "subdomain"
environment	Environment	The API environment. Default: Environment.US
http_client_instance	Union[Session, HttpClientProvider]	The Http Client passed from the sdk user for making requests
override_http_client_configuration	bool	The value which determines to override properties of the passed Http Client from the sdk user
http_call_back	HttpCallBack	The callback value that is invoked before and after an HTTP call is made to an endpoint
timeout	float	The value to use for connection timeout. Default: 120
max_retries	int	The number of times to retry an endpoint call if it fails. Default: 0
backoff_factor	float	A backoff factor to apply between attempts after the second try. Default: 2
retry_statuses	Array of int	The http statuses on which retry is to be done. Default: [408, 413, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504, 521, 522, 524]
retry_methods	Array of string	The http methods on which retry is to be done. Default: ["GET", "PUT"]
proxy_settings	ProxySettings	Optional proxy configuration to route HTTP requests through a proxy server.
basic_auth_credentials	BasicAuthCredentials	The credential object for Basic Authentication

The API client can be initialized as follows:

Code-Based Client Initialization

fromadvancedbilling.advanced_billing_clientimportAdvancedBillingClientfromadvancedbilling.configurationimportEnvironmentfromadvancedbilling.http.auth.basic_authimportBasicAuthCredentialsclient=AdvancedBillingClient(
basic_auth_credentials=BasicAuthCredentials(
username='BasicAuthUserName',
password='BasicAuthPassword'
),
environment=Environment.US,
site='subdomain'
)

Environment-Based Client Initialization

fromadvancedbilling.advanced_billing_clientimportAdvancedBillingClient# Specify the path to your .env file if it’s located outside the project’s root directory.client=AdvancedBillingClient.from_environment(dotenv_path='/path/to/.env')

See the Environment-Based Client Initialization section for details.

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 Renewals
• Subscription Status
• Coupons
• Components
• Customers
• Events
• Insights
• Invoices
• Offers
• Products
• Sites
• Subscriptions
• Webhooks

SDK Infrastructure

Configuration

• ProxySettings
• Environment-Based Client Initialization

HTTP

• HttpResponse
• HttpRequest

Utilities

• ApiHelper
• HttpDateTime
• RFC3339DateTime
• UnixDateTime