mjezew-prebill-subscription | Stripe Developers | Page 1

harsh minnowBOT Jan 23, 2024, 10:48 PM

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wintry herald Jan 23, 2024, 10:51 PM

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Hi 👋

We don't currently have a recommended process for "pre-billing". It is a workflow we are developing but we do not have anything available at the moment.

However, that being said, it sounds like your use case woudl be a fit for Subscriptions Schedules. https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases

One way to achieve your flow would be to collect the prebilled amount in a separate Invoice and use it to create a Customer Credit Balance that can then be applied to the invoice generated when the Subscription starts.
https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/customer/balance

fallen shoal Jan 23, 2024, 11:08 PM

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We have a working prototype using subscription schedules, but we were hoping to avoid the manual intervention of creating a future schedule set to cancel.

wintry herald Jan 23, 2024, 11:11 PM

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Currently I think the best option is a future-dated Subscription Schedule set to cancel at the end of the phase + some sort of independent charge ( what I suggested with the Credit Blance) is the best we can offer

fallen shoal Jan 23, 2024, 11:19 PM

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Ok thank you for the help!

wintry herald Jan 23, 2024, 11:25 PM

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Happy to shed what 💡 I can 🙂

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