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pause_recurring_payment

Pause a recurring payment profile.

Action · State change

What pause_recurring_payment does

Toggles the active state of a recurring recurring payment schedule.

This tool is part of InvoiceCave's open MCP server — the most MCP-complete invoicing platform on the market with 102 tools covering invoices, customers, quotes, expenses, payments, recurring schedules, accounting, and reports. Every tool is callable from any MCP-compatible AI client without writing a single line of integration code.

How an AI uses pause_recurring_payment

Use when the AI needs to temporarily stop a subscription, retainer, or recurring payment without deleting the schedule. The history and configuration are preserved; resume_* picks up where pause_* left off.

You don't call this tool directly — you ask the AI in plain English and the MCP client decides which tool to invoke based on your request. The example prompts below were lifted from real Claude Desktop sessions, so you can use them verbatim or adapt them to your data.

Parameters

pause_recurring_payment accepts 1 parameter — 1 required, 0 optional. The AI fills these in from your natural-language prompt; you never write them by hand.

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
idstringrequiredRecurring payment profile ID

Request example

Under the hood, your AI client sends a JSON-RPC 2.0 tools/call request to InvoiceCave's MCP endpoint at https://www.invoicecave.com/api/mcp/mcp. Here's what a pause_recurring_payment call looks like:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pause_recurring_payment",
    "arguments": {
      "id": "id_a1b2c3d4"
    }
  }
}

You won't write this yourself — it's shown so developers can see exactly what the MCP client generates. The arguments object maps 1:1 to the parameters above. Authentication is handled by the Authorization: Bearer header with your API key.

Example AI prompts

Type any of these into Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor — InvoiceCave's MCP server will route them to pause_recurring_payment automatically.

“Pause this recurring recurring payment.”

Use it in 30 seconds

Claude Desktop
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One CLI command
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Related tools

More from the Recurring Payments category.

list_recurring_payments

List recurring payment profiles. Optionally filter by status.

create_recurring_payment

Create a recurring payment profile (e.g. monthly retainer received). Tracks expected incoming payments. To record actual receipts, use record_payment against an invoice.

update_recurring_payment

Update a recurring payment profile.

delete_recurring_payment

Delete a recurring payment profile.

resume_recurring_payment

Resume a paused recurring payment profile.

FAQ — pause_recurring_payment

What is pause_recurring_payment?▾

pause_recurring_payment is one of 102 tools in InvoiceCave's MCP server. Toggles the active state of a recurring recurring payment schedule. It's invoked automatically when an AI client like Claude or Cursor decides the user's request maps to this action.

Which AI clients can call pause_recurring_payment?▾

Any MCP-compatible client. We've tested it with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Codex. The MCP protocol is open, so any AI tool that speaks MCP can call this endpoint with a valid InvoiceCave API key.

Is calling pause_recurring_payment secure?▾

Yes. Every call is authenticated by the API key you mint in the dashboard, scoped to a single organization, rate-limited per key, and recorded in the audit log with source='mcp'. Sensitive fields (SMTP passwords, encryption keys) are never returned to the AI client.

What parameters does pause_recurring_payment take?▾

pause_recurring_payment accepts 1 parameter — 1 required (id). The AI populates these from your plain-English prompt — see the parameter table and request example above.

Does pause_recurring_payment count against any quota?▾

MCP tool calls are unmetered on the free plan up to a generous monthly limit. Once you connect Stripe and start charging your customers, every call still counts against the same per-key rate limit but doesn't add to your bill.

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