#gabor-period-end-sub
little bolt
onyx bobcat
Hello 👋
So your end goal is to check when the current period ends?
honest cypress
Hi @onyx bobcat 👋 , yes, I want to update my db with the new end of the period when plan has changed and successful payment happened.
For example when a user switches from monthly to yearly payment.
onyx bobcat
Shouldn't you rather use current_period_end property on the subscription itself than looking at the line-items?
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-current_period_end
gabor-period-end-sub
honest cypress
Well, I experimented with watching for customer.subscription.updated events so that I can rely on the subscription object. But I am not sure how I could make the db update only on successful payment.
onyx bobcat
On the invoice.paid event, you'd want to retrieve the subscription again and check the current_period_end timestamp
honest cypress
Ah, okay, thank you.
onyx bobcat
NP! 🙂 Happy to help
honest cypress
Do you recommend to do this also when a user just signs up, and when a new cycle happens?
Is this solution more reliable than using the line items?
I am asking because of the double request.
I mean one more request.
onyx bobcat
So you can certainly just use customer.subscription.updated event as it is sent when the subscription is successfully started, after the payment is confirmed. Also sent whenever a subscription is changed. but in that case you'd need to check if the latest invoice was paid or not
onyx bobcat
NP! 🙂 Good luck
honest cypress
Thanks 🙂