#krystian
gilded jay
small shadow
Currently, im trying to control how the UI components are rendered based on a UserPlan enum that contains [Read-Only, Trial, Starter, Pro], and changing it based on stripe webhook events (which i'm still learning which events i should use when, what data i should store in my db, etc). The thought with the Read-Only plan is that its supposed to represent the case when smart retries have been exhausted for a user on a free-trial, or for a user thats been paying but their credit card failed - in which case i'd want to restrict the users account to read-access only, so they can still view to their data until they add/fix their payment info. Its also not entirely clear whether i should configure the subscription settings to change the subscription status to canceled, or leave it as incomplete_expired
if the user comes back and finally enters in their CC, then do i create a new subscription? or reuse the one that already exists? For a simple SaaS app with a starter & pro tier, should the user ever have more than 1 subscription?
if i wouldn't want to cancel the subscription, and keep it as inactive, then what would be a scenario where i'd want to actually cancel the subscription?
lunar hare
Hi, let me catch up here
What you're trying to accomplish is to how to best keep track of these two subscriptions correct? (on the first question)
small shadow
more or less, yes
although i currently only create 1 subscription for each user
not two (which based on how you phrased the question, it makes me think i should have 1 subscription for each product_id?)
lunar hare
You would create 1 subscription per customer, and look at the price id. You can also set a Subscription level metadata to track this as well, https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-metadata
small shadow
is there any scenario in which i would want a second subscription created for the same user?
trying to understand if its:
1 Customer to N subscriptions (in the case of just a starter and pro plan)
lunar hare
There would, but it all depends on what you're trying to do. Like a customer could have 1 yearly subscription and another subscription that is billed monthly.
In your case, I would recommend just updating the subscription: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/upgrade-downgrade.