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• https://discord.com/channels/841573134531821608/1164599265226666144, 0 days ago, 6 messages
magic spindle
Hi 👋
So the error is correct. If you have already created the Subscripton you cannot adjust the start date of the current phase. What is it you are trying to achieve in the first phase?
mild blaze
We need to create a subscription that starts on Oct 30th, that bills monthly, and will only charge 10 times, so will cancel after 10 billing cycles
start date here is just any arbitrary future date but Oct 30th as example
magic spindle
Okay so the only way you can achieve all of that is to start with a Schedule. But you said you need the Subscription object to exist before it starts. Can you tell me why?
mild blaze
Our system is designed to save that Subscription Id as the reference in Stripe at the time of the subscription being created
magic spindle
You might need to save the Subscription Schedule ID in that case. Because, as you noted earlier, the Susbcrption is only created once it starts.
You could update the record in your system to the Subscription ID when it is created and you receive the webhook event
mild blaze
Right. Because the only other way to specify an end date when creating the subscription is via a timestamp
Yea we had speculated on that but were hoping there was some way to "reset" the subscription using the schedule feature
Ok ty. will take this and see what we come up with
One quick question
magic spindle
Once the Subscription is created, you can look it up from the Schedule object https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/object?lang=node#subscription_schedule_object-subscription
mild blaze
If we create the Subscription Schedule to start now it bills them, there is no way to create the schedule to anchor to a future date and also create the subscription now but skip the proration?
magic spindle
Correct
mild blaze
Ok cool. ty for the help