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# Trigger immediate billing for an order

> Immediately processes a billing attempt, creating an order in Shopify. This bypasses the scheduled billing date and processes the order right away.

**Important Notes:**
- Requires shop permission 'enableImmediatePlaceOrder'
- Only QUEUED billing attempts can be processed
- Creates an actual order in Shopify
- Charges the customer's payment method immediately
- Cannot be undone once processed

**Use Cases:**
- Customer requests early delivery
- Process order immediately after resolving payment issue
- Manual order processing for special cases

**Authentication:** Requires valid X-API-Key header and shop permission



## OpenAPI

````yaml /subscription/admin-api-swagger.json put /api/external/v2/subscription-billing-attempts/attempt-billing/{id}
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  description: >-
    Comprehensive API documentation for managing subscriptions, payments, and
    related operations. These APIs allow you to programmatically manage
    subscription lifecycles, handle payments, configure products, and integrate
    subscription functionality into your applications.
  title: Admin APIs
  version: 0.0.1
servers:
  - url: https://subscription-admin.appstle.com
security: []
tags:
  - description: >-
      Core APIs for managing the complete subscription lifecycle including
      creation, updates, pausing, resuming, and cancellation of subscriptions.
    name: Subscription Management
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing subscription payment methods, processing payments,
      handling payment retries, and updating billing information.
    name: Subscription Payments
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing subscription contracts including delivery schedules,
      pricing, order notes, billing cycles, and shipping addresses.
    name: Subscription Contracts
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing products within subscriptions including adding,
      removing, updating quantities, and swapping products.
    name: Subscription Products
  - description: >-
      APIs for handling billing operations, payment processing, and financial
      transactions related to subscriptions.
    name: Billing & Payments
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing discounts and promotional codes applied to
      subscriptions.
    name: Subscription Discounts
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing one-time add-on products that can be purchased alongside
      recurring subscription items.
    name: Subscription One-Time Products
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing subscription plans, pricing tiers, and plan
      configurations.
    name: Subscription Plans
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing customizable product boxes and bundles where customers
      can select multiple items.
    name: Build-a-Box & Bundles
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing the product catalog including product information,
      variants, and inventory.
    name: Product Catalog
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing operational settings, configurations, and administrative
      functions.
    name: Operations & Settings
  - description: >-
      APIs powering the customer-facing portal where subscribers can manage
      their own subscriptions.
    name: Customer Portal
  - description: APIs for managing customer information, profiles, and account details.
    name: Customers
  - description: >-
      APIs for retrieving aggregated subscription data, customer subscription
      history, and account-level subscription information.
    name: Subscription Data
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing delivery profiles, shipping rates, free shipping
      configuration, and delivery method options on subscriptions.
    name: Delivery & Shipping
  - description: >-
      APIs for managing storefront customization including custom CSS, theme
      settings, label translations, and merchant-defined widget configuration.
    name: Customization
  - description: >-
      APIs for configuring cancellation flows, retention offers, cancellation
      reason management, and win-back automation.
    name: Customer Retention
paths:
  /api/external/v2/subscription-billing-attempts/attempt-billing/{id}:
    put:
      tags:
        - Billing & Payments
      summary: Trigger immediate billing for an order
      description: >-
        Immediately processes a billing attempt, creating an order in Shopify.
        This bypasses the scheduled billing date and processes the order right
        away.


        **Important Notes:**

        - Requires shop permission 'enableImmediatePlaceOrder'

        - Only QUEUED billing attempts can be processed

        - Creates an actual order in Shopify

        - Charges the customer's payment method immediately

        - Cannot be undone once processed


        **Use Cases:**

        - Customer requests early delivery

        - Process order immediately after resolving payment issue

        - Manual order processing for special cases


        **Authentication:** Requires valid X-API-Key header and shop permission
      operationId: attemptBillingV2
      parameters:
        - description: Billing Attempt ID
          in: path
          name: id
          required: true
          schema:
            format: int64
            type: integer
        - description: API Key (Deprecated - Use Header X-API-Key instead)
          in: query
          name: api_key
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
        - in: header
          name: X-API-Key
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Billing processed successfully
        '400':
          description: Cannot process billing - invalid status
        '401':
          description: Authentication required
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                detail: Shop does not have enableImmediatePlaceOrder permission
                status: 403
                title: Permission denied
                type: https://example.com/errors/forbidden
          description: Shop does not have permission to place immediate orders

````