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I need to create subscriptions, via API, in Draft Status.
'Status' is not a valid parameter for the REST API Create Subscription endpoint ('/v1/subscriptions'), using zuora-version 211.0.
{'reasons': [{'code': 53000021, 'message': "Invalid parameter(s): 'status'."}], 'processId': 'AB50D6EB05E0DBBF', 'success': False}
I tried '/v1/create/subscription', but I got following message.
AssertionError: POST to /action/create/ failed: b'{"message":"Error - invalid object type: subscription"}\n'
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Hi,
Have you tried the Rest Action for Subscribe?
POST: https://rest.apisandbox.zuora.com/v1/action/subscribe
{ "subscribes" : [ { "Account": { "Id":"2c92c0f8602f9f7c016030df75050de5" }, "SubscribeOptions" : { "GenerateInvoice": false }, "SubscriptionData": { "Subscription": { "InitialTerm": "12", "Notes": "My Subscription Notes", "RenewalTerm": "12", "TermStartDate": "2018-06-05", "TermType": "TERMED", "IsInvoiceSeparate": "TRUE" }, "RatePlanData": [ { "RatePlan": { "ProductRatePlanId": "2c92c0f85a46888b015a490d7d2375a6" }, "RatePlanChargeData" : [ { "RatePlanCharge" : { "ProductRatePlanChargeId" : "2c92c0f85a46888b015a490d7d4175a8" } } ] } ] } } ] }
Output:
[ { "SubscriptionId": "2c92c0f8602f9ebb016030e68381341d", "SubscriptionNumber": "A12967--S00000274", "AccountId": "2c92c0f8602f9f7c016030df75050de5", "Success": true, "AccountNumber": "A12967-00000167" } ]

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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
According to the following article (October 2016), Zuora Support Team says this is not possible with REST; the recommendation there is to use SOAP.
REST api to create subscription with draft status
grrrr.
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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
Hi @bolaurent
This discussion continues in the article you showed, and recently (July, 2017), @vu_phan indicated that this can be achieved with REST's Subscribe call
https://community.zuora.com/t5/Subscriptions/REST-api-to-create-subscription-with-draft-status/td-p/...
In fact, I confirmed that Draft's Subscription was created in this way when this was posted .
(I know that Subscribe call exists from the SOAP era. What you want is just to use "Create Subscription"? If so, I can understand your thoughts very much ...!)
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Hi,
Have you tried the Rest Action for Subscribe?
POST: https://rest.apisandbox.zuora.com/v1/action/subscribe
{ "subscribes" : [ { "Account": { "Id":"2c92c0f8602f9f7c016030df75050de5" }, "SubscribeOptions" : { "GenerateInvoice": false }, "SubscriptionData": { "Subscription": { "InitialTerm": "12", "Notes": "My Subscription Notes", "RenewalTerm": "12", "TermStartDate": "2018-06-05", "TermType": "TERMED", "IsInvoiceSeparate": "TRUE" }, "RatePlanData": [ { "RatePlan": { "ProductRatePlanId": "2c92c0f85a46888b015a490d7d2375a6" }, "RatePlanChargeData" : [ { "RatePlanCharge" : { "ProductRatePlanChargeId" : "2c92c0f85a46888b015a490d7d4175a8" } } ] } ] } } ] }
Output:
[ { "SubscriptionId": "2c92c0f8602f9ebb016030e68381341d", "SubscriptionNumber": "A12967--S00000274", "AccountId": "2c92c0f8602f9f7c016030df75050de5", "Success": true, "AccountNumber": "A12967-00000167" } ]

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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
Hooray! This worked for me.
For anyone else trying to follow this, I had to remove ContractAcceptanceDate, ContractEffectiveDate, and ServiceActivationDate from the call. When these were present, the subscription was created in Active status.
@kevin_lussie, thank you so much for posting the whole payload of your call; it was very helpful.
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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
And after, what is the call in REST API to update de subscription with the contractn service and acceptance dates ?
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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
Hi,
The problem with the Rest Action for Subscribe Is that it will automatically create an account and one subscription.
What if I need to create a subscription in "PendingActivation" status for an existing account ?
What if I need to create 2 or 3 subscriptions in "PendingActivation" status at the same time ?
Please give me a solution.
Maxime
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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
I'm pretty sure that's not accurate, Maxime. I am using the Rest Action for Subscribe to create subscriptions, in pending status, without creating accounts.
If you look at the payload that @kevin_lussie shows above, subscribes is an array (there can be multiple subscribes), and Account for the subscribe element he showed was an account id (meaning the account already exists).
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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
Here's my working code (in python, using https://github.com/bolaurent/zuora_restful_python😞
def deploy(self, subscription_owner_account): self.subscribe = { 'Account': { 'Id': subscription_owner_account['Id'] }, 'SubscribeOptions': { 'GenerateInvoice': False, 'ProcessPayments': False }, 'SubscriptionData': self.subscriptiondata() responses = self.zuora.subscribe({ 'subscribes': [self.subscribe] }) for response in responses: logger.info(response)
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Re: How to create a subscription in 'Draft' status?
Wow thank you very much !
To be honest, I was only focus on the online documentation which does not specify the field "Id" that you mentionned, and which even affirm :
Thanks a lot !