#alexchazten
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odd tundra
Hello! You can do that with a Subscription Schedule: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules
The first phase can be for the first month with the $1 Price, then the next phase can be for the five months with the full price.
dire vapor
Gotcha. Do I need to upgrade to something for that?
odd tundra
It's part of Billing, so I don't think so. But I'm not a pricing expert. 🙂
dire vapor
Ok
When I create a subscription, it requires that I add a customer. I want to make it so that the customer will only have to pay via a payment link, and they don’t need to fill out their billing address like it requires when I create a new subscription. Is there anyway where they can basically pay for the subscription using a payment link instead of an invoice?
odd tundra
No, not in the scenario you described above. Subscriptions generate Invoices to collect payment for each period. You can send people to the hosted Invoice payment page to collect payment, but it sounds like you want to avoid that. The alternative would be to build a custom payment page on your website that uses the Payment Element to confirm the Invoice's Payment Intent using its client secret.
dire vapor
Do I can’t make a subscription that bills monthly automatically the first month being $1?
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odd tundra
You can with a Subscription Schedule, yeah.
dire vapor
And the customer won’t have to fill out their info again and again?
odd tundra
Stripe Payment Links and Checkout are not compatible with Subscription Schedules though, so you can't use them to create a Subscription Schedule.
odd tundra
With a Subscription they typically fill out their payment info once at the beginning of the Subscription and then it's saved for future payments.