#Cinji18
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brittle cape
hello! it's the way it was designed back then i'm afraid
i'll pass on the feedback though!
deep helm
So how should I proceed? I have a membership/subscription business...
brittle cape
you would need to create a customer first
deep helm
Then if the payment to his subscription fails, delete him?
brittle cape
that works if you want to keep things clean
deep helm
Hmm...ok. Also, I want to allow the customer to choose whether to have automatic renewals or manual renewals. If manual, I don't want to save any payment method info and I don't want to send an invoice. I want to send an email to remind him to login and renew. Is this doable?
brittle cape
if you want to do it manually, then you wouldn't use Billing i.e. create a Subscription
you would create a PaymentIntent and manage collecting payments etc by yourself
deep helm
Are you saying if the person wants to manually renew, I cannot create a subscription for him and add him to the list of subscribers?
brittle cape
I want to allow the customer to choose whether to have automatic renewals or manual renewals
you can set the collection method : https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-collection_method
hmmm
let me think a bit more about the manual renew flow
okay, scratch what i said earlier. It should be possible - you can turn off emails : https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/integration/workflow-transitions#emails
deep helm
Hmmm...ok. I will see what I come up with. Thank you.
brittle cape
then you would handle emails on your own, and get the customer to login to your page and make payment. I assume that you want to handle payment on your own, so you would use the corresponding PaymentIntent to collect payment