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- satyashetty, 22 hours ago, 9 messages
astral steppe
So you want to limit trials to the customers initial subscription? Eseentially preventing trial abuse?
hazy marlin
yes
astral steppe
Hmm, that's something you'd need to build and implement in your application. There's no way to prevent that today
Perhaps you add metadata to the Customer object if they've had a trial, and conditionally check for that field before you create a Checkout Session and omit the trial parameters if they've already have a trial
hazy marlin
i can set a flag in my database which tells me that they have already used a trial period
astral steppe
Then you should check against that, and if they've had a trial then don't pass trial_end on the new session meaning the have to pay
hazy marlin
so what ur saying is that if i dont pass the trial_period in checkout/sessions then there will not be any trial given to the particular user?
astral steppe
Correct!
hazy marlin
Perhaps you add metadata to the Customer object if they've had a trial, and conditionally check for that field before you create a Checkout Session and omit the trial parameters if they've already have a trial --> how do u go about doing this? Use customer.update api? do u have a link to how this could possibly be done?
astral steppe
Yeah you'd just call that endpoint to set a metadata field perhaps after they cancel their first trial subscription: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/update#update_customer-metadata
hazy marlin
Below is the response i got from ur Docs AI on stripe. Is it correct or is it Hallucinating? To prevent a user with the same customer ID in Stripe from getting another free trial after the first trial period is over, you can use the Stripe API to handle this scenario. When creating a subscription, you can set the trial_end parameter to a specific timestamp or use the trial_period_days parameter to specify the number of days the trial lasts.
To achieve your desired behavior, you can use the update subscription API call to set the trial_end value to "now" or a specific timestamp when the user wants to switch to a different subscription plan. By setting trial_end to "now", you effectively end the trial immediately and the user will not receive another free trial period. The customer will be charged for the new subscription plan without going through another trial period.
Please note that the API requires the trial_end value to be at least 48 hours in the future, but setting it to "now" will effectively skip the trial period for the user.
Here are the steps you can follow:
Use the update subscription API call.
Set the trial_end value to a new timestamp or "now" if you want to end the trial immediately.
This approach ensures that the user will not get another free trial period when switching to a different subscription plan.
For more details, you can refer to the Stripe API documentation on updating subscriptions.
Please note that the specific details of implementing this in your code will depend on the programming language and Stripe integration you are using.
astral steppe
Not really sure how that will prevent the same user signing up for a 2nd trial?
hazy marlin
i agree that it will not prevent him from signing up for 2nd. That check i will have to perform through a Flag set either in my DB or metadata as u stated . However, my question is more on the mechanics of stripe API & how i pass a vlue to api stating that I dont want this new subscription to start with a trial period
astral steppe
As I said, you'd conditionally check that field in your database/metadata whether that customer/user has had a trial. If they have previously had a trial, then when you create a session just don't pass the trial_end parameter
hazy marlin
ok or update subscription with following later with another api call to subscription.update (which i think is a round about way of doing the same thing we could do with create/sessions api) trial_endstring | timestamp
Unix timestamp representing the end of the trial period the customer will get before being charged for the first time. This will always overwrite any trials that might apply via a subscribed plan. If set, trial_end will override the default trial period of the plan the customer is being subscribed to. The special value now can be provided to end the customer’s trial immediately. Can be at most two years from billing_cycle_anchor.
astral steppe
Personally I wouldn't use that method but that's up to you!