#pablo barcos
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paper slate
Hi, yes specifying its starting date to Unix time of 1st 00:00:00 UTC, monthly will give that behavior
hidden ridge
No matter if the month have 30 or 31 days?
paper slate
Yep that's how monthly Subscription works
hidden ridge
Okey i will try, and for the subscription that are created, can i change to follow this?
paper slate
Yes but a bit tricky: see: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/billing-cycle#changing
hidden ridge
Introducing a trial?
paper slate
Yep
hidden ridge
I don't understand how it would be
in this subscription: sub_1LnrG4FwcDcE2pVJAb3HT6uK how can i change the invoice to the first of the next month?
paper slate
Introduce a trial is simply to call the Subscription Update API and specify the trial_end parameter like https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/billing-cycle#api-trials
hidden ridge
So in this example to understand:
i have a subscription created, and October is payed. Today is 4 November, In the next invoice is showing 30 nov, for changing the next invoice to 1 December the process is adding a trial of 26 days in this case?
paper slate
Ideally yes but it could generate proration. If that Subscription was paid on 30 Oct, means it has been paid for 30 Oct -> 30 Nov already. If you change the trial_end to Dec 1 at Nov 4, you would want to disable proration to not giving them a "free" period.
Take a look at this Doc https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/billing-cycle#prorations
When moving the billing cycle using a trial, if you don’t want this period to be free (since the user is presumably continuing full access to your service or product), it’s important that you disable proration, so the customer isn’t credited for the now “free” period. Because trials are free parts of a subscription, introducing a trial to an existing paid subscription results in a proration. The customer receives a credit for the period they’ve already paid, because it’s free.
hidden ridge
Okey and then nexts months in this case will be charged in 1st of the next months?
paper slate
Yep
hidden ridge
Doing this trick of the trials days will generate problems in the invoices?
paper slate
Not a big problem except it could display the Sub is "on trial" if you give your Customer access to Customer Portal, for example.
hidden ridge
okey thanks for the help 👍
paper slate
np and good luck!