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stone crag
low granite
Yes, though I am trying to remember what the common ways we suggest to do this would be.
One option is you could start them on a subscription schedule that has a $0 price for the first cycle, then goes to your normal price
Actually that is a question I should start with, are you already working with subscription schedules here or are you working with these subscriptions directly?
stone drift
Yes, though I am trying to remember what the common ways we suggest to do this w...
Let's say someone had a yearly subscription, and they wanted to pay two weeks before the start on the subscription. How would that work in this case?
low granite
Subscription schedules are actually a separate Stripe object that creates/manages subscriptions https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#start-subscription-future
Our vanilla subscriptions don't have a way to tell them to start in two weeks or switch its price. So for situations like that an integration either needs to do the scheduling itself or use one of our subscription schedules
I think the easiest implementation would be schedules + a $0 price for two weeks
stone drift
With the schedule, the invoice would be generated only after the start date, is that right? We would like to collect payment upfront
Or did I miss something
low granite
Right, so you would want to create your own one-off invoice or payment intent up front and collect payment with that
So you can do that, listen for the payment succeeding, and then create the schedule
stone drift
That could work, could we then mark the schedule as paid after that invoice was paid?
low granite
You can't directly do it as far as I know, the first invoice the schedule creates will still want payment, but there are two workarounds that I can immediately think of:
- Creating a credit balance on the customer equal to the price of the subscription (so if it is $100 a year put a $100 credit on the customer). then create the schedule to start a subscription in two weeks with that yearly price
- Create a subscription schedule that starts the user on a $0 yearly price in two weeks and then transitions to your paid yearly price a year later.
stone drift
Yeah option #1 crossed my mind also, I think that will work
Okay thanks for your help, while not perfect I think this will accomplish what we want
Appreciate it! 👍
low granite
Awesome! Glad I could help find something that will at least help here