Paypal CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile billing for firstmonth automatically

Question

I need to know how to pay for the first month while calling the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile, current situation is that I am able to make a initial payment at the time of creation of the profile, but I want to make the first month payment of the recurring payment.

My current request parameters are below

METHOD=CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile&VERSION=61.0&PWD=XXXXXX&USER=ramjio_1265317521_biz_api1.gmail.com&SIGNATURE=A1ztEX-EPedHf6p5.GxbRz1NXQj9A0lzO7zyE.0s4BzXkJhRpTZhCjxz&TOKEN=EC-0KM07981VB102461N&AMT=100&INITAMT=100&CURRENCYCODE=USD&PROFILESTARTDATE=2010-02-13T02%3A47%3A38&BILLINGPERIOD=Month&BILLINGFREQUENCY=1&TOTALBILLINGCYCLES=12&L_BILLINGTYPE0=RecurringPayments&L_BILLINGAGREEMENTDESCRIPTION0=1+Month+Free&DESC=1+Month+Free&MAXFAILEDPAYMENTS=5&AUTOBILLOUTAMT=AddToNextBilling

so the current profile shows like below

Payment cycle Monthly
Total cycles 12
Cycles remaining 12
Amount due per cycle $100.00 USD
Amount received $0.00 USD

But I need something like the below Payment cycle Monthly
Total cycles 12
Cycles remaining 11
Amount due per cycle $100.00 USD
Amount received $100.00 USD

Please suggest me whats wrong Any help is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your requirements are, but you might be able to set the profile start date to the date of the notional second recurring payment, and the "initial amount" to the amount to cover the amount of the first month's payment. It would show 11 cycles remaining (out of 11) though.