#aby-recurring-payments

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finite prismBOT
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👋 @flat smelt honestly that section doesn't make that much sense to me. I think what they are trying to say is that with our Billing product and our Subscriptions API we offer a lot of prebuilt powerful tools like trial periods, usage records, smart retries, proration, etc. With "recurring payments" you basically just build it all yourself where you store card details and then each month you have some logic you built to charge their card on file (still securely saved on Stripe) but you have to build all the rest like retries, proration on upgrade/downgrade, etc.
In the Billing/Subscription case you create a Subscription and get a sub_123 but in the other case you really don't get any of this since you make the payment with your own code each month

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Yeah, Completely understood thank you.
Basically the sub_ID is created when you create the subscription object, and with a simple recurring payment no subscription object is created then..

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correct

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Thank you for the clarification! Really appreciate it!