paypal verifying first payment or initamt was billed in recurring payment

Question

I want my users to be able to subscribe to a recurring payment (using the express checkout api) The first payment needs to be billed immediately that the user subscribes, and I

Answer 1

The only solution I've found (which is poor) is to accept up to a 24 hour delay in being notified that the first month's subscription has been billed. We're now investigating Google checkout and braintree payments as alternatives to paypal so we can migrate away from it.