#zeroth-checkout-currency
nocturne raptor
Hello, to clarify do you have multi-currency prices or is this currency lock seemingly on the Customer themselves?
jolly ruinBOT
stiff wedge
yep multi currency prices
I can see in the create subscription that i could select a currency then, but at the point I provision the subscription (starting a trial) I haven't had a chance to ask the user their preferred currency.
it would also be acceptable to have a default and let them change it when they use the billing portal, but that doesn't seem to be supported either?
nocturne raptor
Gotcha, thank you for the clarification. Looking in to how we choose the price and what your options are here
potent solar
Hi 👋
I'm stepping as @nocturne raptor needs to go
Can you share an example Subscription ID I can look at?
stiff wedge
sure sub_1NDvovJdX8lIDNiaIOM9sqqj
potent solar
A currency was provided when this subscription was created: https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/logs/req_F1iwDzBAWQQfaL
I think this sets the currency that can be applied to this Subscription because currency is not one of the parameters you can pass when updating a Subscription: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update
stiff wedge
well it wasn't provided but I suspect if left unset it must take the price default?
oh sorry, in that particular call i did provide a currency. was testing out if I could force it
potent solar
If you look at the request that created the Subscription, it explilcitly passes 'EUR' for the currency parameter
Ah, yeah okay
So the Price has a default of 'GBP' but you set the currency of the Subscription to EUR. Did that have the behavior you expected?
stiff wedge
try this one sub_1NDwV3JdX8lIDNiaT4H3awfH (same setup, no currenct set)
yep that did have the expected behavior. i guess i am clarify that there is no way for allow to make the customer make a change via the portal?
potent solar
Yes so if you don't specify then the Subscription will take the default currency for the Price object. So in the second Subscription it defaults to GBP
stiff wedge
yea ok that makes sense. do i understand correctly then that I can't really create a subscription without a currency being selected?
potent solar
Correct. If you don't provide one, it will be provided for you. Currently the implementation of multi-currency prices means that you can specify which currency you want to create the Subscription in and still use the same Price object (if it supports that currency) but you still need to set a permanent currency for each Subscription and does not change.
stiff wedge
okay understood. I'm also reading https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/free-trials at the moment and suspect I could actually get the customer to complete a checkout (as opposed to provisioning the trial up front), and maybe at that point they would select the currency because it is a checkout portal, not a billing portal?
potent solar
I'm not 100% certain about that because you are still specifying the Price in the line_items parameter. But you could quickly test that out to see if it gives you the behavior you are looking for.
How are you determing the Price object to use when creating the Subscription?
stiff wedge
we know the product from the context of their session, and we choose the default price, with the intent that they can change the price (upsell) mid trial
and yep trying the idea out now
ok that's interesting, it automatically picked euros for my checkout session with the +location_FR in the email. this is promising
potent solar
Interesting!
jolly ruinBOT