Method: accounts.customers.entitlements.startPaidService

Starts paid service for a trial entitlement.

Starts paid service for a trial entitlement immediately. This method is only applicable if a plan is set up for a trial entitlement but has some trial days remaining.

Possible error codes:

  • PERMISSION_DENIED: The customer doesn't belong to the reseller.
  • INVALID_ARGUMENT: Required request parameters are missing or invalid.
  • NOT_FOUND: Entitlement resource not found.
  • FAILED_PRECONDITION/NOT_IN_TRIAL: This method only works for entitlement on trial plans.
  • INTERNAL: Any non-user error related to a technical issue in the backend. Contact Cloud Channel support.
  • UNKNOWN: Any non-user error related to a technical issue in the backend. Contact Cloud Channel support.

Return value: The ID of a long-running operation.

To get the results of the operation, call the operations.get method of CloudChannelOperationsService. The Operation metadata will contain an instance of OperationMetadata.

HTTP request

POST https://cloudchannel.googleapis.com/v1alpha1/{name=accounts/*/customers/*/entitlements/*}:startPaidService

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
name

string

Required. The name of the entitlement to start a paid service for. Name uses the format: accounts/{account_id}/customers/{customer_id}/entitlements/{entitlement_id}

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "externalCorrelationId": string,
  "requestId": string
}
Fields
externalCorrelationId

string

Optional. An optional identifier in the external system that partners can use to correlate a Channel Services purchase transaction for the entitlement.
requestId

string

Optional. You can specify an optional unique request ID, and if you need to retry your request, the server will know to ignore the request if it's complete.

For example, you make an initial request and the request times out. If you make the request again with the same request ID, the server can check if it received the original operation with the same request ID. If it did, it will ignore the second request.

The request ID must be a valid UUID with the exception that zero UUID is not supported (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000).

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/apps.order

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.