Note: This operation is only available if you have the Orders feature enabled. If you are an existing Zuora Subscribe and Amend customer, we recommend you enable Orders Harmonization to access the Orders feature. With Orders, you can access both existing functions for subscription and billing management and the new features on Zuora Billing.
Note: The Order Line Items feature is now generally available to all Zuora customers. You need to enable the Orders feature to access the Order Line Items feature. As of Zuora Billing Release 313 (November 2021), new customers who onboard on Orders will have the Order Line Items feature enabled by default.
You can use this operation to create subscriptions and make changes to subscriptions by creating orders. You can also use this operation to create order line items by creating orders. The following tutorials demonstrate how to use this operation:
You can also use this operation to create orders and save the orders as Scheduled Orders.
In addition, you can use this operation to place a standalone order to subscribe without pre-defining a product catalog in Zuora Billing. For more information, see Create a subscription using a standalone order.
Note: If you received a timeout error message when creating an order, the call is still running in the backend and the order will be created.
The limit of orders allowed on a subscription is 1000.
The limit of order line items allowed in an order is 100.
Zuora has the following limits on the Orders synchronous API to prevent performance degradation:
If you have an Order that exceeds any limits of the above, Zuora recommends you use the following asynchronous API operations:
Zuora has the following limits on the Orders asynchronous API operations to prevent performance degradation:
Note: When you are to suspend a subcription (via the suspend order action), if in the same "Create an order" call you are to perform other subsequent order actions on the supscription to suspend, you must first resume the subscription (via a resume order action).
Note: When using this operation to create an account, create a subscription, run billing, and collect payment in a single call, if any error occurs during the call, such as a payment processing failure and a tax engine failure, then all the other steps will be rolled back. This means that the invoice will not be generated, the subscription will not be created, and the account will not be created.
Note: The characters #, ?, and / are not allowed in the Orders operations.