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[safe sierra]

No, Subscriptions and Subscription Schedules are two different objects. What's your use case where you want to use them interchangeably?

[fading temple]

Pretty much in my system subscriptions are created when the user registers. We then store these subIds to manage the subscriptions. We just setup production stripe where we pre populated some customers and associated them with subscriptions, i was expecting these to produce subscription ids but instead produced sub schedule id’s

My system is built around sub id’s

[safe sierra]

we pre populated some customers and associated them with subscriptions
Do you have an example customer ID I can review?

[fading temple]

From prod?

[safe sierra]

Yep, wherever you're seeing subscription schedule IDs instead of subscription IDs.

[fading temple]

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Oh I think I may realise the issue, we have specified for all subscriptions to start Feb 17 - at that point will the sub schedules go to subscriptions?

[safe sierra]

Ah, that's it. I see you're creating Subscriptions via the Dashboard. If you select a start date in the future, we create a parent Subscription Schedule; the Subscription object won't be created until the start date you've configured

[fading temple]

Ahhh gotcha, there’s no way of fetching that prior?

[safe sierra]

No, not for subscriptions that start in the future.

You could create a subscription and include a trial. The subscription object will be created now and will be retrievable; no schedule will be created

[fading temple]

Once the trial ends the subId would remain the same yeah?

[fading temple]

Thankyou this is helpful

[safe sierra]

Yes, the subscription ID wouldn't change

[fading temple]

Ok great thankyou, and with trial periods, the customer wouldn’t be charged until after the trial period is complete right?

[safe sierra]

That's correct. You could also start a trial without collecting payment details but it's up to you if you want to do that