#ilyoTheHorrid (Endstream)
woeful carbon
onyx silo
When you say "irregular intervals" what do you mean?
green delta
Unlike subscription, the intervals are "random". One can be in a month, then in a week, then in 3.5 month... etc.
There are customers who don't pay every month but prefer to break down their payment to specific dates.
onyx silo
Ahhh, okay. It might be better to remove Subscriptions entirely from this system, since updating them that regularly is not really what they were built for and is going to make things very complicated. I'd recommend using just Invoices and creating an Invoice each time a payment is required.
green delta
How would you do that?
It needs to be auto-charged.
Also, I saw there are "future payments", is that a good solution?
onyx silo
That's a good way to save payment methods that you can charge in the future, but there is no automatic way to do what you want to do unless you build the automation yourself. Otherwise you're stuck trying to hack together Subscriptions in a way they weren't intended.
green delta
There is no way to auto charge payments in the future?
onyx silo
There is, but there's no way to auto charge payments in the future AND do so on random intervals
green delta
Can I auto charge a payment at a specific date in the future?
onyx silo
Not without Subscriptions. You can pay an Invoice on a arbitrary date, by you would need to call the Pay Invoice API, which means that as soon as the request happens the payment goes through. There's no future payment functionality without Subscriptions as far as I know
green delta
What would be the difference between creating an invoice and using this https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse ?
