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snow lagoonBOT
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runic coral
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$schedule = $stripe->subscriptionSchedules->create([
    'from_subscription' => $subscripton->id,
]);
$update = $stripe->subscriptionSchedules->update(
    $schedule->id,
    [
        'phases' => [
        [
            'items' => [
            [
                'price' => $schedule->phases[0]->items[0]->price,
                'quantity' => $schedule->phases[0]->items[0]->quantity,
            ],
            ],
            'start_date' => $schedule->phases[0]->start_date,
            'end_date' => $jan_1_2024,
            'proration_behavior' => 'none',
            'pause_collection' => [
            'behavior' => 'void'
            ]
        ],
        [
            'items' => [
            [
                'price' => $schedule->phases[0]->items[0]->price,
                'quantity' => $schedule->phases[0]->items[0]->quantity,
            ],
            ],
            'start_date' => $schedule->phases[0]->end_date,
            'end_date' => $jan_5_2024,
            'proration_behavior' => 'none',
            'pause_collection' => [
            'behavior' => ''
            ]
        ],
        [
            'items' => [
            [
                'price' => $schedule->phases[0]->items[0]->price,
                'quantity' => $schedule->phases[0]->items[0]->quantity,
            ],
            ],
            'billing_cycle_anchor' => 'phase_start',
            'proration_behavior' => 'none'
        ],
        ],
    ]
);
serene acorn
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Instead, you'd use a trial or free price for the "paused" phase

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Or a 100% coupon, etc

runic coral
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Does using a free trial generate an invoice?

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For the trial period, I mean.

serene acorn
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It does, yes. Both trials and free plans would create $0 invoices.

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Well, the trial would be a single invoice for the duration of the trial

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the free price would be recurring for each billing cycle (eg, monthly free plan would be a monthly invoice)

runic coral
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Ugh. We really just want to unpause all paused subscriptions on January 1st behind the scenes.

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How can I do that without generating an invoice for these existing subscriptions?

serene acorn
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You already have paused subscriptions?

runic coral
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Yes. We paused subscriptions during the SAG/Writer's strike. We want to unpause them now that the strike is over.

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But we want our subscribers to get a notice plus a short period to cancel if they want, hence, January 1st.

serene acorn
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If you want to change the billing cycle as well, you can use a schedule for that part alone, just resetting the cycle Jan 1

runic coral
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I don't need to use a subscription schedule to set a date for the next invoice to be generated?

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I thought resetting the billing anchor was the way to do that.

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Sorry, I see your follow up.

serene acorn
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If you're paused right now the simpler approach is likely to use a trial period for that, setting trial end to Jan 1 at some time, shortly after the pause resumes_at, so that the invoice generated when the trial ends gets paid as normal

runic coral
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We want to avoid an invoice being generated at the start of the trial period. It's unecessary.

serene acorn
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I expect it would be void as well, but i would suggest testing out a few of the options in test mdoe to see what outcome you prefer

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Note you can use Test Clocks to manipulate time for testing