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gentle nestBOT Sep 28, 2022, 2:15 PM

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ornate plume Sep 28, 2022, 2:37 PM

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Hey @obtuse leaf huge apologies but I missed this thread for a bit. The way we typically recommend working around this is to create your subscription with a very short (like 3 second) trial, when you create a subscription with a trial, the first paid invoice will be in a draft state for an hour.

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I don't think you can explicitly turn off auto_advance here and this behavior on the first invoice is actually a bit separate from that. I can check in to if we have other workarounds but the short trial is easiest one that I know of

obtuse leaf Sep 28, 2022, 2:43 PM

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hy pompey, thx for your response... my subscriptions already have a trial and that is creating a 0$ invoice and this is instant finalized

ornate plume Sep 28, 2022, 2:44 PM

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Can you send me the ID of one of those invoices?

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Uh to be clear, the $0 invoice being instantly finalized is expected here. Your first paid invoice would be delayed by an hour though. Are you looking to avoid sending your users an email about the $0 basically?

obtuse leaf Sep 28, 2022, 2:47 PM

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i think that would make sense, because i cant edit the description and footer in this invoice right?

ornate plume Sep 28, 2022, 2:50 PM

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Correct as far as I know. I will check in to whether there is another workaround that doesn't do that.

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So there is another workaround. If you create a subscription via a subscription schedule we will delay the first invoice finalizing by an hour https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules#managing

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You should be able to create a schedule that finishes immediately and releases the subscription that it is attached to

obtuse leaf Sep 28, 2022, 2:55 PM

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i just checked the webhook history and you are right there is a hour in between on first payment

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ok ty, i will check that links and try to finish my implementation...

ornate plume Sep 28, 2022, 3:00 PM

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Sounds good, let me know if you need help. Subscription Schedules can be tricky to get working initially

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