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rustic iris
How to create a product with an annual price of $100 and monthly recurring charge of $8.33, with a subscription that will last for 12 months always and the user cannot cancel at any time? I sell a monthly subscription. I cannot charge the amount once a year, as I need to release a certain amount of credits per month to the user every time the monthly cycle renews.
wintry falcon
Just to make sure I understand: You want a Subscriptoin that charges for a full year and every month it charges $8.33. At the end of the year the Subscription ends
rustic iris
Yes
wintry falcon
Gotcha - so you can accomplish something like that by creating a Subscription schedule with the monthly $8.33 price and configure it to cancel at the end of the 12 months
You're going to want to read these docs: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules
rustic iris
Ok, so I Can't do it using the dashboard? I have to create it by coding
Is it possible to use a payment link with a custom number of iterations?
wintry falcon
You could also create it through the dashboard (you can configure the end date), but it's not something you can do with payment links
rustic iris
I can't find it in the dashboard 😦
wintry falcon
When you create the subscription you should see this
rustic iris
but where can I create the subscription?
I found it thanks
What I'm not getting is how to implement the following code in something like the example in this page: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/quickstart?client=react
const schedule = await stripe.subscriptionSchedules.create({
customer: 'cus_G8BQyXLV4wIrlu',
start_date: Math.floor(new Date("2023-04-01").getTime() / 1000),
end_behavior: 'release',
phases: [
{
items: [{price: '{{PRICE_PRINT}}', quantity: 1}],
iterations: 12
},
],
});
I mean. In this example it goes to the checkout page. With the subscriptionSchedules.create function, how can I send the user to the checkout page?
granite sandal
Just catching up, give me a minute
You don't - you can't use schedules and checkout together, currently.
What are you trying to achieve?
If you want to do something like that, you'd use Checkout in mode=setup to collect a payment method you set as the customer invoice default then create the subscription schedule as needed
rustic iris
What I'm trying to get is how the users go to a checkout page of a product that has phases in the subscription
granite sandal
That's not possible, currently
If you wanted to do that, you could use Checkout to create the subscription in trial mode, then create a schedule from that existing subscription
granite sandal
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#existing-subscription
rustic iris
How is the checkout of the 11 example?
granite sandal
You'd combine it with use case example 3, an existing subscription, like i linked
Create a $0/trial subscription via Checkout, then set the schedule afterwards
You cannot use schedules with Checkout directly, currently
It's not supported
rustic iris
Ok, now I get it. Thank you very much for your time
granite sandal
NP!
rustic iris
I found this video, that is exactly what I wanted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8mncrjq24
So if another dumb developer ask you in the future you can send this link 😄
granite sandal
Nic,e glad that's helpful
Note that this shows with an upfront payment
If you wanted to defer the first payment you'll need a $0 price or a trial
But that's up to you
rustic iris
Thanks!