Marcel Wolf | Stripe Developers | Page 1

jolly baneBOT Nov 28, 2022, 9:28 AM

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orchid arch Nov 28, 2022, 9:29 AM

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Hi there,
You can set automatic tax behavior in Subscription Schedule also:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-default_settings-automatic_tax

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I invite to analyse the doc API specification and see if you can find the desired field

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if not, you can create a Subscription Schedule from a Subscription:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-from_subscription

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 9:32 AM

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ok thank you. i missed the default settings object.

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but makes sense since this applies to the whole subscription, not the phases

orchid arch Nov 28, 2022, 9:35 AM

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Yup!

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 9:44 AM

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can i ask a other question?

orchid arch Nov 28, 2022, 9:45 AM

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Yeah for sure!

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 9:45 AM

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i have a subscription with 1 year cycle. i want to apply 30 days trial in phase one and in a secound phase a coupon

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what are my phase out dates?

orchid arch Nov 28, 2022, 9:50 AM

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You can set trial on the first phase:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules#using-trials
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-trial
and set trial_end with the timestamp corresponding after 30days
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-trial_end
And apply coupon to phase 2:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules#subscription-schedule-phases

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 9:53 AM

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and phase 2 can end directly after or must it be the rest of the year

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i want to put the subscription in release after applying coupon

orchid arch Nov 28, 2022, 10:09 AM

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patent whale and phase 2 can end directly after or must it be the rest of the year

yeah you can set end behavior to release on the schedule:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-end_behavior

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:10 AM

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ok

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i will try

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many thanks !

orchid arch Nov 28, 2022, 10:12 AM

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Np!

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:26 AM

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Can i apply the PaymentBehavior to the scheduler like default_incomplete?

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:28 AM

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Not directly on the schedule no

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:30 AM

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my plan is i have

subScriptParams = &stripe.SubscriptionParams{ Customer: stripe.String(req.CustomerID), Items: []*stripe.SubscriptionItemsParams{ { Price: stripe.String(req.PriceID), }, }, TrialPeriodDays: stripe.Int64(30), PaymentBehavior: stripe.String("default_incomplete"), AutomaticTax: &stripe.SubscriptionAutomaticTaxParams{Enabled: stripe.Bool(true)}, }

this at the moment. and i want to be this the first phase.

After this the subscription should apply a promo like this:

                PromotionCode: stripe.String(req.PromotionCode),
            })```

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and i want to convert this to a scheduler

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:32 AM

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Then you can pass from_subscription when creating the schedule: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-from_subscription

Stripe API reference – Create a schedule – curl

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patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:33 AM

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ok so i would create the subscription with the trial

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and add a phase starting 30 days later with the update?

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:34 AM

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Well, what is it you're trying to achieve with the schedule?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:35 AM

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i want to create a subscription with a 30 days trial period, depending on the coupon that was applied. if a specific coupon was used, the subscription should start with 30 days trial after this a fixed value coupon should be applied to the yearly subscription

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:35 AM

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Which coupon system are you using?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:37 AM

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i have a product with three prices. i manually filter if coupon.name == "<name> " to apply the trial since this is the only sales channel that has to be applied to

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:38 AM

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Why do you think you'd need a schedule in this case? Are you changing the Price object they're subscribed to, or literally just expiring the trial?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:39 AM

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some of your colleques suggested this

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the problem is i can not apply a coupon and trial at the creation since the first invoice is 0

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:40 AM

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Are you using Stripe coupons?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:40 AM

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yes

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:41 AM

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What kind of coupons?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:42 AM

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onetime fixed value with customer promo code

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:42 AM

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So your intention is to offer a free trial and then once trial ends apply the coupon?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:42 AM

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exactly

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if this coupon is entered, 30 days trial, after this starting the subscription for one time of 30€

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:46 AM

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Then yes you'd want to update the schedule with a 2nd phase starting at the end of the trial period, applying the discount: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-coupon

Stripe API reference – Create a schedule – curl

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patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:48 AM

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so i would create the subscription with the trial

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and apply then a scheduler to it

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or create both in the scheduler

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:51 AM

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Well, if you need the payment_behavior param you'd need to create the subscription initially with the trial

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:51 AM

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and then its just one phase

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for the update or?

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can i use PromotionCode: stripe.String(req.PromotionCode),
in the scheduler or must i use the coupon code?

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:55 AM

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You can't pass a promotion code to the schedule API, no

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:56 AM

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patent whale and then its just one phase

Well, depends how long you want the coupon to be applied for

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 10:56 AM

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since this is one time off for the first cycle

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 10:58 AM

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Ok, then you want a phase with a single iteration that applies the coupon. I think you can then just set end_behaviour: 'release' and it'll keep recurring ongoing like a regular sub: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-end_behavior

Stripe API reference – Create a schedule – curl

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You can (and should) test all this with clocks: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks

Test your integration with test clocks

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patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:00 AM

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so i will do following now:

Step 1: Create the subscription with trial as i do for now.

Step 2: Create a scheduler from subscription with one phase applying the coupon and release as and behavior and this might do the trick?

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 11:01 AM

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I think so yep! But you should test it with the clocks, they'll help you fast forward time to ensure its behaving as you need

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:07 AM

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yes sure

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a question according the clock

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is there a way to send a existing user and subscription on time travel?

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for now my workflow is to create a user with the normal way in staging (aquireing information and payment method) and do the same in the clock and switch the ids in my database

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to get the hooks working with it

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 11:09 AM

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patent whale is there a way to send a existing user and subscription on time travel?

There is not no. You need to create new, isolated Customer and Subscription objects

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:09 AM

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ok then i will try this

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but can i do a scheduler on the timeclock subscription object?

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 11:13 AM

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I don't understand

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:14 AM

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when i create a customer + subscription in the ui

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i have to write a extra script to apply the scheduler

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 11:19 AM

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Yep, the clocks support schedules

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:19 AM

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but not from dashboard or?

undone imp Nov 28, 2022, 11:22 AM

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No you can't create a schedule from a subscription via the Dashboard

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:29 AM

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ok

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does it makes sense to apply the promo code to the customer object instead of the subscription?

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then if useable it will be applied?

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i tink i saw this in the event logs from creating subscription and user in the test clock with trial and coupon

autumn wave Nov 28, 2022, 11:34 AM

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not sure I follow the use case, what does ' apply the promo code to the customer object ' mean and how is that done?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:40 AM

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Ok my problem is:
Create customer, create subscription with 30 day trial and then when the billing begins apply a one time fixed rate discount.

I tried to follow the instructions with subscription schedule and created a test clock object with the coupon applied and a trial.

I took a look into the events that where logged and saw the discount code was added to the customer instead of the subscription.

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so i think this also could solve my problem with starting with trial and for the first billing cycle a one time off is applied

autumn wave Nov 28, 2022, 11:43 AM

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might work, did you try it?

patent whale Nov 28, 2022, 11:53 AM

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yeah i did

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seems to be ok like this.

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since this is a one time off it should behave like intended

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the upcoming invoice has the coupon applied

#Marcel Wolf