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analog mulchBOT Mar 31, 2023, 5:17 PM

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dense roost Mar 31, 2023, 5:17 PM

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(Snufkin. You are insanely helpful. I don't know how you do this)

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(You helped me with a few other issues in the past)

lofty shoal Mar 31, 2023, 5:18 PM

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Hi 👋

This one sounds pretty tricky. Since there are only a couple ways I could see this working.

analog mulchBOT Mar 31, 2023, 5:18 PM

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dense roost Mar 31, 2023, 5:19 PM

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Yuckk. If I have to I can just change the name of the product each time to reflect the length of the subscription. But then I'd need a way on the back-end to set the date when the subscription would end.

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(Suggestions on where to start with the latter would be appreciated if that's my best bet)

lofty shoal Mar 31, 2023, 5:24 PM

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My first thought would be to create a Subscription Schedule from the Subscription created by the Checkout Session and have the phase run for a specific set of iterations.
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#installment-plans

dense roost Mar 31, 2023, 5:25 PM

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(Okay. One more wrinkle. We're a platform that uses stripe connect through which all our non-profits connect. So would this still be possible for us to do centrally?)

lofty shoal Mar 31, 2023, 5:27 PM

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That depends on how the Platform and Connected accounts are set up and how the checkout session is configured.

I need to step away but my colleague @bold sun will be able to help.

dense roost Mar 31, 2023, 5:27 PM

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Thank you!

bold sun Mar 31, 2023, 5:28 PM

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👋

dense roost Mar 31, 2023, 5:28 PM

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Thanks karbi!! One more possible avenue I'm trying to explore is whether it's possible for me to use cancel_at on the checkout session creation... I'm not seeing it as a parameter available for subscription_data on the checkout object though...

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(Will let you catch-up)

bold sun Mar 31, 2023, 5:29 PM

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Right now there's no way to set cancel_at up-front during Checkout Session creation

dense roost Mar 31, 2023, 5:30 PM

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Okay good to know. ChatGPT clearly got this wrong 😛

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So I can look into the suggestion snufkin offered and perhaps as an alternative set up some kind of webhook that modifies subscriptions we create and adds a cancel date after the fact?

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Any other recommendations on directions I should explore?

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(It's good to know that I wasn't missing something super obvious)

bold sun Mar 31, 2023, 5:32 PM

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Snufkin's suggestion of using the SubscriptionSchedule to configure cancellation after the subscription has been created is likely the best option

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