shimmmaz

[inland drift]

Hi, are you offering a free trial? What is your use case?

[split moon]

We are a marketing agency. A client wants to run ads, let's say $1,000/month on Google. They do not want us to pay for the ads. They want to put it on their credit card for some reason - maybe as simple as "I want to get the points". We, as the agency managing the spend need some way to formally approve that we agree to spend that $1,000/month ON THEIR BEHALF. This needs to be approved by the client and falls under our 'media buying' obligations. So...we are not actually billing anything to them and or not intaking any of this money into the agency - there is $0 cost but there is still a 'value' associated with it which is the amount to spend $1,000.
Stripe (or any payment product platform) should have some way to have a 'free' product, no?

[inland drift]

So you're asking if you can offer a $0 subscription and 'bill' monthly, is that correct? I was going to say, you can use the Subscription and offer a free trial: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/trials

[split moon]

Thank you!

Got it, and I guess I can have an indefinite trial, right?

And what about for one-time payments?

[inland drift]

I was also able to test creating a price == $0 when creating the subscription and it's working as well: https://stripe.com/docs/api/prices/create

I'd recommend that you test this.

Note that my customer has a default payment method set: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create#create_customer-invoice_settings-default_payment_method

When I create the subscirption, I pass that price id and the customer id: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create. For one time invoices, I used the same price id to create a $0 invoice.

[inland drift]

@split moon let me know if you have any questions here