# Mandates

A Mandate symbolizes the permission the customer gave you to charge their payment method. This is used to setup recurring payments and subscriptions.

Mandates can be created directly for some payment types like "direct-debit" or require an authorization payment which is generally the first payment when setting up the recurring payments or subscription.

Check our [Recurring payments guide](/docs/recurring-payments) or [Subscriptions guide](/docs/subscriptions) for how to use mandates.


## Retrieves a mandate

 - [GET /mandates/{id}](https://docs.paypro.nl/reference/api/mandates/retrievemandate.md): Retrieves a single mandate based on the id.

## Retrieve a list of mandates

 - [GET /mandates](https://docs.paypro.nl/reference/api/mandates/retrievelistofmandates.md): Retrieve a list of mandates that have been created for your account. The mandates are sorted, with the most recent first.

## Creates a mandate

 - [POST /mandates](https://docs.paypro.nl/reference/api/mandates/createmandate.md): Creates a Mandate object.

You can only create a mandate manually for 'direct-debit'. The other supported pay methods
require authorization through a Payment.