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quartz umbra
hello, I believe there's no way to convert between metered <> licensed, you have to create a new Subscription
trim mason
ok I figured out a workaround. Create a licensed subscription item with the same term as the metered price is allowed (in this case term is monthly)
Delete the metered subscription item
Update the licensed (monthly) subscription item to the yearly one
soft yew
Can you share your exact code?
you shouldn't have to go through the monthly one and I think you are misunderstanding how the Update Subscription API works
the items array parameter will merge with the existing items already
so if you are on Price A and you pass items: [{price: 'B'}] then you end up with Price A and Price B
if you want to switch from Price A to Price B you have to do items: [ { id: 'si_123', price: 'B' } ] where si_123 is the id of the existing SubscriptionItem on that Subscription
You can also so items: { id: 'si_123', deleted: true, clear_usage: true }, { price: 'B' } ] which basically deletes the current SubscriptionItem and adds a new one
trim mason
I haven't been passing the items array for subscription updates, I've been using the sub item update API directly
I updated my initial message with the commands run for each error
I believe using this API with create/update would be the same as using the items array, if you used it properly, right?
soft yew
maybe
Sorry hard to grasp what you mean honestly
Those are just the Stripe CLI too so hard to get overall context
You're saying you have a Subscription on Price A, that is monthly and metered and if you move to Price B that is yearly you get your error?
trim mason
Correct. In this command:
stripe subscription_items update si_MJ28nOif8c4HPb --price price_1LaKy2I67GP2qpb4kUjysjHB
{
"error": {
"message": "Cannot update plans with different usage types. The plan for the subscription item with the ID si_MJ28nOif8c4HPb is of usage type metered, and you are trying to update to licensed.",
"type": "invalid_request_error"
}
}
Sub item si_MJ28nOif8c4HPb is a monthly metered price, and it's simply trying to update that specific sub item with the new yearly, licensed price price_1LaKy2I67GP2qpb4kUjysjHB
soft yew
what is the Subscription id though?
trim mason
sub_1LaQRLI67GP2qpb4sVYPK6dL is the subscription ID, but isn't necessary because the sub item ID maps 1:1 to the subscription
This is the API FWIW https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_items/update
It's required when you create so that it knows which subscription to attach to https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_items/create
soft yew
That subscription has multiple prices though
like it has 2, and you're just changing 1, so it's totally normal it errors
trim mason
Yeah sorry the sub isn't in the same state as it was when I wrote the initial message
I can create another one to show you one sec
sub_1LaQmII67GP2qpb4h1zanQ2Y
Has a single metered price as the only sub item
si_MJ2sb3Kq9dG7OE is the sub_item id. So I can run stripe subscription_items update si_MJ2sb3Kq9dG7OE --price price_1LaKy2I67GP2qpb4kUjysjHB where price_1LaKy2I67GP2qpb4kUjysjHB is a yearly, licensed price
Which results in:
stripe subscription_items update si_MJ2sb3Kq9dG7OE --price price_1LaKy2I67GP2qpb4kUjysjHB
{
"error": {
"message": "Cannot update plans with different usage types. The plan for the subscription item with the ID si_MJ2sb3Kq9dG7OE is of usage type metered, and you are trying to update to licensed.",
"type": "invalid_request_error"
}
}
Damn that error message is bad
Can you try via the Update Subscription API with my trick?
this one: items: { id: 'si_123', deleted: true, clear_usage: true }, { price: 'B' } ]
soft yew
Okay I asked another colleague too and they didn't know about that error either. I'll flag internally to see if we can just improve this. It feels "arbitrary" to have that error and maybe we can improve this
trim mason
Sorry stepped out. So you think that this shouldn't actually be an error?
rough stirrup