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[worthy birch]

You can listen to payment_intent.succeeded event. When notified, create a subscription schedule and let it start the subscription accordingly.

[jaunty nova]

I have a subscription product with 2 price, one is paid weekly and the other is monthly monthly.

Because I see that we can't use a paid trials (correct me if I'm wrong), so I'm thinking to use scheduler subscription api.

What I want to make sure is, If I create a subscription schedule from payment_intent.succeeded event, will my customer be charged again? I mean, I don't see we pass parameter to tell the scheduler api that the payment is success

[worthy birch]

In this case, you can use setupIntent to collect the payment_method without charing the customer, listen to setup_intent.succeeded, when notified, start the subscription schedule.

Btw you can't mix prices with different recurring intervals in the same subscription, you can create two subscriptions for the two prices.

[jaunty nova]

but in the dashboard, there's an option to set it.
In the scheduler subscription api. I was thinking to use the weekly subscription id for phase one, after that it will release and goes back to default.

isn't that how it works?

[inner ember]

👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

[jaunty nova]

okay sure

[inner ember]

ok could we go back one step, let's forget about the how, would you mind explaining what are you trying to achieve?

[jaunty nova]

okay, what I would like to achieve is create a subscription for my customer that have a "paid trials" plan for a week, after a week it will start a monthly plan (with different price) for 1 product. and the customer will be charge automatically every month until they cancel the subscription

[inner ember]

ok you can do that with either a Subscription (updating the price after the first payment, I'll explain how next) or a two-phased Scheduled Subscription

it's really up to you to decide on the which is best for you

[jaunty nova]

but if using 2 phased, scheduled subscription. What should I pass for the phase 2 iteration?

[inner ember]

something like:

phases: [{
  items: {
    price: "price_for-week-id",
    quantity:1
  },
  iterations: 1
}, {
  items: {
    price: "price_for-month-id",
    quantity:1
  },
  iterations: 1
}].
end_behavior: "release"

you can use test clocks to advance the Subscription Schedule and see how the Subscription evolves

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks

[jaunty nova]

okay, and when do I start the subscription schedule? I was thinking of using a custom stripe checkout form

[inner ember]

Stripe Checkout doesn't support Subscription Schedules

[jaunty nova]

okay, so how is the payment works for the subscription schedules api?

[inner ember]

you have a couple of options, but this is why I was suggesting using Subscriptions instead because they are compatible with Checkout

[jaunty nova]

ahh I see, if it's supported with checkout... I can go with the subscription API

[inner ember]

yes, what I would do is to create a subscription with a weekly price, and once I receive the invoice.paid event, would then proceed on changing the price to monthly as explained here https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/upgrade-downgrade#changing

but I would use https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-proration_behavior none and https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-billing_cycle_anchor unchanged

[jaunty nova]

Thanks for the explanation, I'm understand now.

[inner ember]

let me know if you need any more help