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twin tapir Aug 11, 2022, 10:24 AM

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👋 happy to help

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I'm testing this for you, just give me a sec

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 10:30 AM

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Thanks! I can provide some code snippets of my schedule update if it would be helpful

twin tapir Aug 11, 2022, 10:35 AM

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yes would be really helpful

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are you on a metered subscription?

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 10:39 AM

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The subscription isn't metered currently

twin tapir Aug 11, 2022, 10:40 AM

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and you're using the same price id?

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 10:41 AM

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📎 example_snippet.txt

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Yes, the price id is the same. Here is. the current code snippet ^

twin tapir Aug 11, 2022, 10:43 AM

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I don't think you need schedules for that

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is there a reason why you are using Subscription Schedules other than to do this?

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 10:46 AM

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We use schedules to change prices at the end of the current cycle (monthly -> yearly). So we want quantity increases to occur immediately, but price changes to happen at the next cycle

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When I attempted to increase the quantity of the current subscription outside of a schedule while a schedule was in place it could not apply the update due to the schedule being in place

pliant spindle Aug 11, 2022, 10:48 AM

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yep, if the subscription is managed by a schedule you're limited in the updates you can make

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you can update the schedule object and adjust the current phase if you want to apply an immediate update though.

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 10:50 AM

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Thanks Karllekko, but can i send an invoice for the update immediately? AFAIK Stripe only allows the additional cost top be prorated onto the next invoice

pliant spindle Aug 11, 2022, 10:59 AM

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yep, proration_behavior:always_invoice should do that

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 11:00 AM

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Unfortunetly, that is not a valid option with the Java library https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/update?lang=java#update_subscription_schedule-phases-proration_behavior

Stripe API reference – Update a schedule – Java

Complete reference documentation for the Stripe API. Includes code snippets and examples for our Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go, Ruby, and .NET libraries.

pliant spindle Aug 11, 2022, 11:00 AM

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yeah true, we never added that to schedules(it's a new-ish param and they didn't prioritise adding it to Schedules when they added to Subs, I 'll raise the feedback again)

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sorry!

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 11:01 AM

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Could you suggest a workaround for this issue?

pliant spindle Aug 11, 2022, 11:02 AM

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without that the only way to force an invoice for the proration would be to set billing_cycle_anchor:now as well but that's obviously quite different

pliant spindle Aug 11, 2022, 11:02 AM

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fringe berry Could you suggest a workaround for this issue?

maybe just do a manual one-off invoice directly and calculate the amounts yourself. So no, not really any good workarounds.

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 11:06 AM

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Okay, thank you. Is it possible to subscribe to this missing functionality to be notified once the issue is resolved? so that I can remove any workaround I do implement?

pliant spindle Aug 11, 2022, 11:08 AM

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not really no

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you can write to https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true to raise the feedback but we don't generally do any type of notification like that ever

fringe berry Aug 11, 2022, 11:10 AM

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Okay, that's a shame. Thank you for your assistance

pliant spindle Aug 11, 2022, 11:11 AM

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actually I looked and I think this is being released quite soon

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I can't commit to specific dates but it seems like they're targeting the end of this month(but of course could slip). When it's available it will just be a new enum value you can pass to that phases.proration_behavior param

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since you use stripe-java you can watch https://github.com/stripe/stripe-java/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md since we'd have to release a new version with support for a new enum in the param when the API itself updates.

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