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

If you are building with .NET CLI tools then you can also use the following command:

dotnet add package Maxio.AdvancedBillingSdk --version 8.0.0

You can also view the package at: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Maxio.AdvancedBillingSdk/8.0.0

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	string	The subdomain for your Advanced Billing site. Default: "subdomain"
Environment	Environment	The API environment. Default: Environment.US
Timeout	TimeSpan	Http client timeout. Default: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120)
HttpClientConfiguration	Action<HttpClientConfiguration.Builder>	Action delegate that configures the HTTP client by using the HttpClientConfiguration.Builder for customizing API call settings. Default: new HttpClient()
BasicAuthCredentials	BasicAuthCredentials	The Credentials Setter for Basic Authentication

The API client can be initialized as follows:

Code-Based Initialization

using AdvancedBilling.Standard;
using AdvancedBilling.Standard.Authentication;

namespace ConsoleApp;

AdvancedBillingClient client = new AdvancedBillingClient.Builder()
    .BasicAuthCredentials(
        new BasicAuthModel.Builder(
            "BasicAuthUserName",
            "BasicAuthPassword"
        )
        .Build())
    .Environment(AdvancedBilling.Standard.Environment.US)
    .Site("subdomain")
    .Build();

Configuration-Based Initialization

using AdvancedBilling.Standard;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;

namespace ConsoleApp;

// Build the IConfiguration using .NET conventions (JSON, environment, etc.)
var configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
    .AddJsonFile("config.json")
    .AddEnvironmentVariables() // [optional] read environment variables
    .Build();

// Instantiate your SDK and configure it from IConfiguration
var client = AdvancedBillingClient
    .FromConfiguration(configuration.GetSection("AdvancedBilling"));

See the Configuration-Based 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 Status
• Coupons
• Components
• Customers
• Events
• Insights
• Invoices
• Offers
• Products
• Sites
• Subscriptions
• Webhooks

SDK Infrastructure

Configuration

• Configuration-Based Initialization
• HttpClientConfiguration
• HttpClientConfigurationBuilder
• ProxyConfigurationBuilder

HTTP

• HttpCallback
• HttpContext
• HttpRequest
• HttpResponse
• HttpStringResponse

Utilities

• ApiException
• ApiHelper
• CustomDateTimeConverter
• UnixDateTimeConverter