#SuperFedz
drifting terrace
safe crown
Can you elaborate on 'charges on a daily rate'? Like you want to bill users for each day they use your service?
cerulean kraken
So, the logic is for a storage unit. We currently offer a daily rate for a storage unit, e.g "£1.00" Per day. so in a 28 day month, it would cost £28 but in a 31 day month it would be £31.
But we only want to actually take a payment on the first of every month
I'm assuming that's what you're asking?
safe crown
Hmm, thinking. My guess is you'd do this via a usage based billing model. Where 1 unit = 1 day. Then it's automatically billed at end of period according to the usage: https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#usage-based-pricing
cerulean kraken
Can stripe automatically increase the usage unless specified so that i don't have to manually increase usage everyday?
safe crown
No, not in that billing model
cerulean kraken
Alright. Ideally i want stripe to take care of that.
Can i not give Stripe a Daily Price that is then using a BillingCycleAnchor to only charge once a month?
safe crown
Pretty sure there's no model that accounts for that. Check through that doc I linked
safe crown
Can i not give Stripe a Daily Price that is then using a BillingCycleAnchor to o...
No that won't wortk
cerulean kraken
Pretty sure there's no model that accounts for that. Check through that doc I li...
I'm reading through it now.
cerulean kraken
Is it possible to make a subscription only charge on the first of the month?
cloud oasis
Hey! Taking over for my colleague.
You can pause the subscritpion:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-pause_collection
cerulean kraken
Ok. So this is some logic i came up with that may fix my issue.
Create a Price for the Subscription that equates to 1 day. (£1.00)
When the subscription is due. I calculate the days in the month and add this as usage to the subscription (31 days)
This would mean the customer owes £31.
Then Press a button on my system that will take the subscription payment
To do this. I could make the payment uncollectable. Then my button makes this payment collectable
cloud oasis
Not sure if I understand well your use case, but check the pricing modeling
https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models