shane

[scenic shard]

Hi there

So pay_immediately is only for the first invoice of a Subscription

So you just set it on Subscription creation

After that, there is a 1 hour delay for webhook delivery

For the renewal payments

So Avalara can successfully add the tax

[eager portal]

But in both these scenarios I am creating a subscription

[scenic shard]

Right, one has a Subscription Schedule

With Subscription Schedules there is the one hour delay for the first invoice as well

[eager portal]

No there isn't. I tested it and it pays it immediately

[scenic shard]

Well yeah you can't set pay_immediately in the Dashboard

This is API only

[eager portal]

But what I'm wondering is why it's different in both of those scenario when all I changed is how long the subscription is supposed to go.

[scenic shard]

Because one uses a Subscription Schedule and one does not. That is the behavior that is in place for those two APIs which are different

I don't recall the exact reasoning for why we have a draft invoice for the initial invoice of a Subscription with a Schedule. I'd need to do some digging to look up the historical context for that

[eager portal]

So what would you recommend I do? Because in the one scenario where they pay immediately they won't get tax applied

[scenic shard]

If you are using Avalara you should be creating Subscriptions via the API and passing the pay_immediately: false parameter

Then tax will get applied