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gleaming tartanBOT Sep 29, 2022, 8:31 PM

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queen parcel Sep 29, 2022, 8:31 PM

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Hi 👋 ,

nope that isn't possible. You would need to code that yourself.

coral owl Sep 29, 2022, 8:34 PM

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Hey! Should I use cron job to scan the DB and remove all subscription items that need to be deleted? I saw that the dashboard has this option, so how does it works?

queen parcel Sep 29, 2022, 8:35 PM

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That I'm not certain about. The dashboard does a lot of nifty things that are beyond the scope of the APIs. Cron jobs are one well tested and reliable approach

coral owl Sep 29, 2022, 8:39 PM

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Okay, I think I will use cron jobs then.

I have another question. If I schedule the start of a new subscription in X months, does the customer will be charged right now or in X months when the subscription start?

queen parcel Sep 29, 2022, 8:42 PM

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How are you scheduling the subscription? What API calls are you making with what parameters?

coral owl Sep 29, 2022, 8:45 PM

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Oh nvm, you can't start a subscription at a specific date. https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create

I thought it was possible...

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Thanks Snufkin for helping out!

queen parcel Sep 29, 2022, 8:48 PM

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Happy to help. 🙂
Sometimes all you need is to talk out the issue and it solves itself.

coral owl Sep 29, 2022, 8:51 PM

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Yeah, you were my debugging rubber duck 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

Rubber duck debugging

In software engineering, rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a method of debugging code by articulating a problem in spoken or written natural language. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, l...

queen parcel Sep 29, 2022, 8:55 PM

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