Update the billing plan for a specified Constant Contact client account.

Only authorized technology partners have access to partner endpoints. To make authorized calls to partner endpoints, you must include your API key in the x-api-key header and the JSON Web Token (JWT) in the Authorization header. The JWT automatically expires in one hour (3,600 seconds) and cannot be refreshed. You must re-authenticate each time a JWT expires.

Make a PUT call to the /partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan endpoint to update the following Constant Contact billing plan details for a partner’s client account:

  • plan_type: Change the current billing plan (plan_type) to a different plan that is enabled in your partner plan group. The billing plan determines the Constant Contact product features that the client account can access and the total number of contacts permitted. Attempting to change to a plan that is currently not available within your partner plan group results in a 400 error response code. The following billing plan types are available:
    • TRIAL: A non-billed Trial account with an expiration date that allows clients to try limited Constant Contact product features.
    • BRONZE: A billable plan that provides basic email and marketing tools.
    • SILVER: A billable plan that provides all features available in the BRONZE plan, and adds some additional email campaign feature such as contact segmentation and social media advertisements.
    • GOLD: A billable plan that provides all available product features.

    Changing the plan_type from TRIAL to another plan_type automatically changes the billing_status from Trial to Open.

    If you are not on the latest billing plan, contact the Constant Contact Partner Team. However, older billing plans and plan_name enum values will continue to be supported.

  • Update the day of month (billing_day_of_month) in which to bill the client account. This property is required if a client account is not set up to use single billing. You can choose to enter a specific day of the month or accept the default value, which is the day on which the plan_type value changes from a Trial plan to a different plan_type. For trial accounts, the value defaults to null. You can change the billing_day_of_month only when changing the plan_type value from TRIAL to a different plan_type, otherwise the value you enter is ignored. Valid values include 1 through and including 31.

You can also make a PUT call to the partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan endpoint to reactivate a canceled client account by specifying the plan_type to assign to the account (cannot be TRIAL) in the request body. The response body results show the updated billing plan details for the client account, including the change in billing_status from Canceled to Open.

Before updating a client account, you can view the current account details by making a GET call to the /partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan endpoint. The following provides an example of the type of client account details that display in the results body.

{
    "plan_type": "TRIAL",
    "current_tiers": [
        {
            "usage_type": "CONTACTS",
            "current_usage": 1.00000,
            "tier": 1,
            "tier_min": 0.00000,
            "tier_max": 500.00000,
            "price": 20.00000,
            "currency_code": "USD"
        }
    ],
    "billing_status": "Trial",
    "billing_day_of_month": 29
}

To update the billing plan for a client account, make a PUT call to the /partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan endpoint and include your changes in the request body. The following request body provides an example that changes the billing plan from TRIAL to GOOD and changes the billing date to the first (1) day of each month. Any additional properties and values that you include in the request body are ignored.

{
  "plan_type": "GOLD",
  "billing_day_of_month": "1"
}

The response body results shows all billing plan changes and details for the specified client’s account. For example:


{
  "plan_type": "GOLD",
  "current_tiers": [
        {
            "usage_type": "CONTACTS",
            "current_usage": 1.00000,
            "tier": 1,
            "tier_min": 0.00000,
            "tier_max": 500.00000,
            "price": 20.00000,
            "currency_code": "USD"
        }
    ],
    "billing_status": "Open",
    "billing_day_of_month": 1
}

Changing the plan_type from TRIAL to different plan automatically changes the billing_status from Trial to Open. Acceptable values for billing_status include:

  • Trial: This is a non-paying trial client account.
  • Open: This is an active and paying client account.
  • Canceled: The client account was canceled.
  • Trial End: The trial period has ended for this client account.

Parameters

The following header parameters are required:

  • x-api-key: Enter the API key associated with your application.
  • Authorization: Enter the JWT to use.

In the request body, you can choose to change the client account plan type (plan_type) and if the plan_type is current set to TRIAL, you can also choose to change the day of month to bill the client account (billing_day_of_month).

Example PUT Billing Plan Details for a Client Account Request

PUT https://api.cc.email/v3/partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan

JAVA cURL PHP 
 <?php
 
 $request = new HttpRequest();
 $request->setUrl('https://api.cc.email/v3/partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan');
 $request->setMethod(HTTP_METH_PUT);
 
 $request->setHeaders(array(
   'cache-control' => 'no-cache',
   'x-api-key' => '40a0b12-342b-436d-97c3-000000000000',
   'Authorization' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxWQzZGTG9DS0RGTkYzT2w0XC9KaDU2TUFtc3RnQT0iLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiI2cjZ0bzVmb2UxZ2luNWt0N3Y2Y2JoanNjcyIsInRva2VuX3VzZSI6ImFjY2VzcyIsInNjb3BlIjoidjNhcGlcL2dlbmVyYWwucGFydG5lciIsImF1dGhfdGltZSI6MTU5MTEwMTg4OCwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2NvZ25pdG8taWRwLnVzLWVhc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tXC91cy1lYXN0LTFfTUd4alFNTTRQIiwiZXhwIjoxNTkxMTA1NDg4LCJpYXQiOjE1OTExMDE4ODgsInZlcnNpb24iOjIsImp0aSI6IjdmOWFiODI3LWIwZjktNDRmYi1iZTcwLTc3OGE5MTg0Y2MwMyIsImNsaWVudF9pZCI6IjZyNnRvNWZvZTFnaW41a3Q3djZjYmhqc2NzIn0.lLvhRdv_k1swxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxa3ZjMU4KAXitot-3VCOZ_95rErSmP7aST2oAENKiVEbttq2QJaJqVvuce2sJSx9dstWzlXixeQt5MFwkrzC3vBpT02qBotAUpoEz28zcRft5LFYxFs4Z5ycTzkgmBCdX6GtHL8bj6QihYrsi5wKdO0JatMlyt2cv1qRwN_dAKFrPx9QuXdz2x7Xnip0g7jCZDEJpYFJVe_aAoiutRGJNtpemI70_A42MU9XDTuXg0i75ISStcnjYP27SNtgKyg6So3EOnZLR5nyHeYUE3wTZfMt13wBUIsKvX_SgMgdQLOC7lOhsix8okA,xxxxxxx3N2Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
   'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
   'Accept' => '*/*'
 ));
 
 $request->setBody('{
 "plan_type": "GOLD",
 "current_tiers": [],
 "billing_status": "Trial"
 }
 ');
 
 try {
   $response = $request->send();
 
   echo $response->getBody();
 } catch (HttpException $ex) {
   echo $ex;
 }
 

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

        MediaType mediaType=MediaType.parse("application/json");
        RequestBody body=RequestBody.create(mediaType,"{\n\"plan_type\": \"GOLD\",\n\"current_tiers\": [],\n\"billing_status\": \"Trial\"\n}\n");
        Request request=new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.cc.email/v3/partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan")
  .put(body)
  .addHeader("Accept", "*/*")
  .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .addHeader("Authorization", ""xxxxxxxxxxxxxWQzZGTG9DS0RGTkYzT2w0XC9KaDU2TUFtc3RnQT0iLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiI2cjZ0bzVmb2UxZ2luNWt0N3Y2Y2JoanNjcyIsInRva2VuX3VzZSI6ImFjY2VzcyIsInNjb3BlIjoidjNhcGlcL2dlbmVyYWwucGFydG5lciIsImF1dGhfdGltZSI6MTU5MTEwMTg4OCwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2NvZ25pdG8taWRwLnVzLWVhc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tXC91cy1lYXN0LTFfTUd4alFNTTRQIiwiZXhwIjoxNTkxMTA1NDg4LCJpYXQiOjE1OTExMDE4ODgsInZlcnNpb24iOjIsImp0aSI6IjdmOWFiODI3LWIwZjktNDRmYi1iZTcwLTc3OGE5MTg0Y2MwMyIsImNsaWVudF9pZCI6IjZyNnRvNWZvZTFnaW41a3Q3djZjYmhqc2NzIn0.lLvhRdv_k1swxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxa3ZjMU4KAXitot-3VCOZ_95rErSmP7aST2oAENKiVEbttq2QJaJqVvuce2sJSx9dstWzlXixeQt5MFwkrzC3vBpT02qBotAUpoEz28zcRft5LFYxFs4Z5ycTzkgmBCdX6GtHL8bj6QihYrsi5wKdO0JatMlyt2cv1qRwN_dAKFrPx9QuXdz2x7Xnip0g7jCZDEJpYFJVe_aAoiutRGJNtpemI70_A42MU9XDTuXg0i75ISStcnjYP27SNtgKyg6So3EOnZLR5nyHeYUE3wTZfMt13wBUIsKvX_SgMgdQLOC7lOhsix8okA,xxxxxxx3N2Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"")
  .addHeader("x-api-key", "40a0b12-342b-436d-97c3-000000000000")
  .addHeader("cache-control", "no-cache")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();



 curl -X PUT \
  https://api.cc.email/v3/partner/accounts/{encoded_account_id}/plan \
  -H 'Accept: */*' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YmlsbGluZ3N2Y19zX3FhOktSKGppc31nWzx3aV8=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -H 'x-api-key: 40a0b12-342b-436d-97c3-000000000000' \
  -d '{
"plan_type": "GOLD",
"current_tiers": [],
"billing_status": "Trial"
}

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Tags: Technology_Partners