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[eager crane]

Hi Tarzan!I hope you are well!

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👋 happy to help

I'm doing fine thanks, hau?

[eager crane]

doing great

thanks

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what you're looking for is Subscription Schedules

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules

[eager crane]

I created automations for schedule subscriptions, but never dealt with changing prices after a while

I can see that in phases there is a end_date parameter

which I assume I will need to put the Unix time for when I want that phase to end

how the new phase would than start?

Also, Can normal subscription have phases?

or only scheduled subscriptions?

[swift arrow]

you can use iterations instead of end_date

[swift arrow]

only schedules have phases

[eager crane]

ok

[eager crane]

but i do not see any iterations, what do you mean by that?

cause my idea would be to create a phase.0.start_date and a phase.0.end_date, than do the same for phase1

would that work?

[burnt turtle]

👋 stepping in here

Iterations indicate how many billing cycles the phase should last for

See: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules#phase-length

[eager crane]

oh ok

Hey Bismark

[burnt turtle]

Hello

[eager crane]

whats the parameter for iterations?

[burnt turtle]

https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-iterations

[eager crane]

ok I have a couple of questions

the idea would be to set the first phase to stop after a certain amount of months, but phase 2 has to go indefinitively

is that possible?

[burnt turtle]

Yep

So you can just set phase 2 for 1 iteration and then you set the Subscription Schedule to end_behvaior: release

That will then remove the Schedule and keep the Subscription on that Price that is in phase 2 indefinitely

[eager crane]

so If I set:
"phases[0][iterations]"=12
means that phase 0 will go for 12 months

?

[burnt turtle]

If you are using a monthly Price then yes

[eager crane]

yes

i mean the payments are done monthls

monthly

so just to be sure the code would be like this:
"phases[0][items][0][price]"= price_xxxxx
"phases[0][iterations]"=12
"phases[1][items][0][price]"= price_yyyy

?

or i did something incorrectly?

[burnt turtle]

Yeah that looks right to me

Though you need iterations as well for phase 1

[eager crane]

oh how do I do it unlimited?

"phases[0][items][0][price]"= price_xxxxx
"phases[0][iterations]"= 12
"phases[1][items][0][price]"= price_yyyy
"phases[1][iterations]"= 1
"end_behaviour"= release

?

like this?

or end_behvaior: release needs to be for phase 1?

[burnt turtle]

end_behavior is top level like you have it

Yep all that looks right

I'd test it out

Using a test clock

[eager crane]

what's that?

[burnt turtle]

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks

[eager crane]

can I change product during iterations?

sorry i missspoke

[burnt turtle]

No you would need a new phase to change your Price

[eager crane]

i meant, can I change items in different phases?

like
phase 0 prod_xxx
phase 1 prod_yyy?

[burnt turtle]

Yep

[eager crane]

ok Ill test it out and contact you again if needed

thank you so much for you help