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[cedar jay]

Hello! If you're setting trial_period_days that means your Subscription, by definition, does have a trial period, and thus there is no Payment Intent (because there's no payment to collect at that time).

[wet salmon]

and after the trial period has ended how the user will be charged?

[cedar jay]

They'll be charged using the Payment Method collected for them, if one exists. You can use the Subscription's pending_setup_intent to collect and set up a Payment Method for future use when no payment is due.

And then you can set that Payment Method as the default at either the Subscription level or the Customer level for Invoices.

https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-pending_setup_intent

https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-default_payment_method

https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create#create_customer-invoice_settings-default_payment_method

[bleak wedge]

benjamin-subscription-trial

[wet salmon]

so can I use pending_setup_intent with trial_period_days ?

[bleak wedge]

yes

[wet salmon]

if I set the trial period on the subscription and create the subscription as any other, the trial will work, right?