#feminaagravat_39821
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steel bridge
No there is no trial period.
quartz notch
I understand. But you can use trial period feature to offset the actual start date.
You can check for Subscription.status: "trialing" and not treat it as an active Subscription yet.
steel bridge
My existing customer has already on going membership , now before it expires they do early renewals.
when we launch this recurring feature so they will do early renewal with recurring on but auto bill should be from next year
quartz notch
You mean they have an existing subscription outside of Stripe Billing?
steel bridge
No
Right now they have membership from my website. and they are doing manual payment every year to renew it.
what is billing_cycle_anchore. can i use that to specify future date when subscription should start?
are you there ?
quartz notch
billing_cycle_anchor will offset the billing date, but the Subscription will still start immediately. That's why I suggested to use the trial period instead, so your customers are not billed immediately
There's an advanced concept of Subscription Schedules that can do just that: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules