# Retrieve a customer’s subscriptions

Use the **getCustomerSubscriptions** method to retrieve details about the subscriptions belonging to a specific customer.

Subscriptions can be retrieved starting with 5 minutes after their orders are generated in the 2Checkout system.

## Request parameters

<table><thead><tr><th width="251.3333740234375">Parameter</th><th>Type / Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>sessionID</code></td><td><strong>Required (string)</strong><br>Session identifier, the output of the <strong>Login</strong> method. Include <code>sessionID</code> into all your requests. 2Checkout throws an exception if the values are incorrect. The <code>sessionID</code> expires in <strong>10 minutes</strong>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>avangateCustomerReference</code></td><td><strong>Required (int)</strong><br>System-generated customer reference. Required unless you prefer to use <code>ExternalCustomerReference</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>externalCustomerReference</code></td><td><strong>Optional (string)</strong><br>External customer reference that you control. Optional when you use <code>AvangateCustomerReference</code>. If you include it, it needs to belong to the same customer as the <code>AvangateCustomerReference</code>.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Request sample

```php
<?php

require ('PATH_TO_AUTH');

$customerReference = YOUR_CUSTOMER_REFERENCE;

$jsonRpcRequest = array (
    'method' => 'getCustomerSubscriptions',
    'params' => array($sessionID, $customerReference),
    'id' => $i++,
    'jsonrpc' => '2.0'
);

var_dump (callRPC((Object)$jsonRpcRequest, $host, true));
```

## Response parameters

<table><thead><tr><th width="163.86669921875">Parameter</th><th>Type</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="/pages/4832d693039556476b2c8d99dbf87398de591237"><code>Subscription</code></a></td><td><strong>Array of objects</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>


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