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- NotMe, 5 days ago, 2 messages
vague holly
Hello 👋
The only way to create a subscription today and charge the customer later on is by giving them a trial period
pseudo star
okay but lets say I mention trial_end but I dont want user to see that its a free tiral it shows it in UI
pseudo star
I am talking about this in this case I had to use trial_end property instead of billing_cycle_anchor so it will create a trial period till I want to start charging but you see how odd this number looks in checkout like I dont have a concept of free trial in my product but in this case it will look like they are receiving product right now and will have free trial till 34 days whereas my point is I want to start charging after 34 days there is no free trial
vague holly
With hosted checkout sessions, Trial is the only way.
You can't create a subscription today, collect customer payment method and then schedule the subscription to charge 5 weeks later.
torn orbitBOT
pseudo star
hmm can you guide me if I can create my custom UI for stripe checkout and if so how easy would it be to replicate the same stripe hosted UI but just ignore showing the trial days part apart from that everything works for me so well.
zenith comet
Unfortunately you can't customize Checkout like that here. I do get that the UI would be confusing for your users though
Have you looked in to our flow where you create a custom page? That would let you use schedules directly https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=elements
pseudo star
So there is no way I can start a subscription on a specific date without giving free trial? Also if I do give free trial there is no way to get away without showing trial days
zenith comet
Unfortunately not with Checkout