#codewithoreo
dim lion
rough patrol
Hi Hanzo 🙂
last sage
Hello 👋
I believe trials are one of the ways merchants offer incentives. There's also Customer Balance.
It allows you to add an amount to customer's balance which then gets auto-applied to the next finalized invoice
rough patrol
Yeah I would love to avoid playing with the customer balance due to the volatility of the customers 😄
I was thinking adding a trial period starting the day before the renewal of the subscription and for 1 month long
last sage
You can also use Subscription Schedule to "schedule" updates in phases so you don't have to manually call the API the day before new billing cycle starts
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules
rough patrol
Oh so basically I can add a schedule which will apply my trial automatically before collecting the paiement?
last sage
Correct.
It allows you to stack the updates you want to make to the subscription in phases
rough patrol
Oh that's bloody awesome I will try to undertand it that coulb be exactly what I need
Thanks a lot for that
last sage
NP! 🙂 Happy to help
rough patrol
Just one more question on the schedules
about the iterations
if I have a monthly subscription: 1 iteration is 1 month
if I have a 6 month schedule: 1 iteration = 6 month right?
last sage
Correct
rough patrol
can I give a value <1 in it like for a 1 month subscription use an iteration of 0.5 for 2 weeks?
last sage
hmm I don't think that's something we currently support unfortunately.
You can set end_date instead
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/update#update_subscription_schedule-phases-end_date
rough patrol
Ok I will do with dates and not iteration for the 6 month
last sage
Yup