#cynefin_30

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stark muskBOT
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grizzled laurel
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Hello 👋
Just to rephrase, you're trying to charge the customer for prorated amount at the time of upgrade and then charge the full upgraded price on the next recurring cycle, correct?

nova inlet
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Correct

grizzled laurel
nova inlet
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It mentions about updating the existing subscription with new items, but in my case I want that a new subscription needs to be created during checkout with the above feature and I will cancel the user's existing subscription manually via the cancel subscription API, which would give me more control over the billing cycle because changing the items will not update the billing cycle right ?

grizzled laurel
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but in my case I want that a new subscription needs to be created during checkout with the above feature and I will cancel the user's existing subscription manually via the cancel subscription API
Ah, I don't think Checkout can support that today.

The only workaround I can think of is,

You preview the prorated amount using this
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/prorations#preview-proration

Then you create a checkout session for one-off payment for the prorated amount

Once that one-off payment succeeds, you cancel the existing subscription & create a new one

nova inlet
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Don't know I am making sense but just had this thought so asking to clarify

grizzled laurel
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I don't believe its considered a security breach since the customer has to provide consent to be charged later on.

nova inlet
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Right does that means, creating a new subscription with collection_method set tocharge_automatically will have customer consent ?

grizzled laurel
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If the payment method was set up correctly, it should be fine.
However, issuers can ask for 3DS auth anytime. So you'd likely want to consider that and build a flow where the customers can come back on-session and authenticate the payment for the new subscription

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Taking a step back, can you explain a bit more about the billing cycle update you want to control?

want to make sure I am on the same page

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an example would help

nova inlet
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Yep framing !! just a bit

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lets say I am subscribing to a product on a 30 days basis, the billing cycle would start from (now) and end at (now + 30 days) and the renew period will be exactly at (now + 30 days) 

But lets say I upgraded at (now + 24th day) and as per the above feature the new upgraded billing cycle date would start from (now + 24th day) and end 30days ahead of the upgraded date

Which is not possible as we can't change the billing cycle for a subscription stripe handles all of that I guess
grizzled laurel
nova inlet
grizzled laurel
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nova inlet
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Cool