MichaelC

[shrewd osprey]

hi, you can just ask your question

[halcyon anchor]

hi Karlleko,
I asked a question about a week ago, but i think it got lost.

I have a client who uses subscriptions starting on a specific day of the year (1st of February).

How can i configure the billing cycle anchor and start date so the new user is billed immediately for a prorated amount (eg; signing up today, they would pay $18, then on the first if feb, get billed for a full year, $100).

[shrewd osprey]

setting billing_cycle_anchor when creating the subscription should do that by default https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/billing-cycle#new-subscriptions

[halcyon anchor]

Does that get sent though createCheckOut?

[shrewd osprey]

you can't do this when using Checkout unfortunately.

[halcyon anchor]

so what is the best approach?

[shrewd osprey]

if you create the subscription manually through (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions?ui=elements) then it's possible and you just pass billing_cycle_anchor when calling the Subscription Create API.

[wide flame]

👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!

[halcyon anchor]

hi Tarzan

The idea is to have new users subscribe automatically.
can this be done before createCheckoutSession?

[wide flame]

as my colleague explained, you can't create a new Subscription anchored in the future with Checkout Sessions

[halcyon anchor]

So, this won't be built into the firebase-payments-extension?

Is there a way then to push the manually created subscription to the firestore user collection?

[wide flame]

no not really

[halcyon anchor]

not even with webhooks?

[wide flame]

I think you can manually create subscriptions in the firebase-payments-extension

let me double check

[halcyon anchor]

you can, and i do already for another client. Without a billing anchor though.

[wide flame]

then you can do the same with the billing anchor

[halcyon anchor]

I think what I have to do is generate the subscription, with billing_cycle_anchor and the customer pays the generated invoice, instead of going through the checkout...

[wide flame]

exactly

either by using collection_method: "send_invoice" or by using the PI on the latest_invoice with Payment Elements

[halcyon anchor]

OK> I will go over my code and see how it goes. thanks loads. collection_method: "send_invoice" seems the appropriate way to go.

[wide flame]

let me know if you need any more help