Shybes

[bitter hound]

Hi there

[proven pumice]

Hey! Hope you're doing well

[bitter hound]

This is a good place to chat about that

Doing well, thanks.

What exactly are you trying to do?

[proven pumice]

So right now, we're looking to implement a subscription based model, where our users can pay for the 1 year subscription, or, they can pay for two (1 year subscriptions) up front for a discounted price.

Since we want recurring purchases enabled, after their two-year deal is up, they will receive recurring transactions for 1-year subscriptions after their two years.

The way we have it implemented right now is by charging them a one year subscription with a surcharge (to account for the second year at a discount), then start their billing period on the appropriate date :

I wanted to make sure there wasn't a better way to go about this.

we also noticed its saying 730 days free, instead of 2 years, and we're uncertain on how to fix that as well.

[bitter hound]

Gotcha

So I would probably use a Subscription Schedule here instead

That will also clean up the initial invoice

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules are the docs on our Subscription Schedules API

But basically you would put the customer on a yearly Sub at Price A for phase 0 which would be one year. Then after a year it would move to phase 1 which would be a $0 Price. Then after 2 years it would move to phase 2 which would be Price B (the yearly recurring price going forward)

Let me know if that doesn't make sense

[proven pumice]

Actually, that does make sense.

I'll chat with my dev and see if this might work out better

There's a chance I will follow up in this thread with my other account - I'll comment below right now

[digital oar]

👋🏻

So apperentally we were looking at that, but it won't let us create a subscription unless the customer already has billing info. so since we want to send them to checkout where they then input billing info, it didn't work

so here's what we did instead -

created a new product that's one-time charge of 2x annual subscription cost & then created checkout session for both that product & the annual subscription product with 2 year free trial. So that's why we're getting those results

[bitter hound]

You can always attach a Schedule after the Subscription has been created

So send them through Checkout with Price A

Then attach a Schedule afterward

Otherwise the method you are using right now does work just fine

You could also just charge Price A then immediately update the Sub to set a 2 year trial afterward

However then you need to update to Price B after 2 years

So yeah, overall the cleanest route imo is using a Sub Schedule

[digital oar]

Okay. Passed the message along.

As a side question, we have a discount code that we're trying to apply. The discount code works fine when using normally, but, while trying to display the same discount with a free trial, the following difference occurs :

[bitter hound]

It doesn't provide you the option for a promo code with a free trial you mean?

Oh you are adding a discount yourself

Not a promo code

And then it isn't reflecting in the UI that there is a discount?

Do you have an example Checkout Session ID I can look at where you are seeing that?

[digital oar]

correct

[digital oar]

Let me see if i can grab it

[bold vine]

👋 Hopping in here since bismarck has to head out soon - let me know when you have that Checkout Session ID

[bold vine]

@proven pumice did you have the Checkout Session ID?