alorel

[vernal quest]

Hello! Can you confirm I have this right? If someone were to pay on December 15th you'd want to immediately charge them $10 and then charge them $10 again on December 1st of the next year?

[clever umbra]

Hello, yes, that's correct

[vernal quest]

Gotcha - and what have you tried so far? Off the top of my head, I think if you did a normal subscription w/ a billing_cycle_anchor set to the first of next december with no proration and a one-time $10 setup fee would get what you want

[clever umbra]

Thanks - I'm looking at the subscription creation API docs https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create just now and am not sure how to go about the setup fee? The way handle we setup fees just now is to create an invoice item and attach it to the subscription, but that fee only gets taken whenever the 1st subscription payment gets taken, so if I also set a billing cycle anchor to next year, the customer doesn't get charged anything until next year.

So far I've tried combinations of:

• Setting only the billing_cycle_anchor to next year, with or without proration
• Backdating the subscription start date to the 1st of December this year and setting the anchor to next year

[vernal quest]

Ah you're right I forgot that there wouldn't be an Invoice gnerated at creation... I guess to get around that you could just cut a one-time Invoice yourself immediately (all you'd do is create the Invoice by passing in the Subscription ID which will automatically pull int he necessary invoice items)

[clever umbra]

Thanks, I'll try that out!

[clever umbra]

Sorted! Thanks for your help 🙂