#ravelens-subs-changes
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- ravelens-setupinetnt-defaultpm, 43 minutes ago, 9 messages
loud forge
Hello 👋
There are a couple ways you can handle this.
The easy way would be to
1/ Charge customer a one-time price for the first 6 months
2/ Then create a monthly subscription with a 6 months trial
The other option is to use a subscription schedule
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules
It allows you to define phases for different conditions
misty ibex
The price is same
Only time for bill
Because i want to give them free 6 month on first subscription
Then will be charge normal monthly
loud forge
Okay, in that case the first recommendation is what you'd want
misty ibex
So what do you mean is
I needed to create 2 type of subsription ?
misty ibex
Yes, i am using API
$subscription = Subscription::create([
'customer' => $authUser->stripe_id,
'items' => [
['price' => $plan->plan_id],
],
'description' => $plan->name.' - Free ' . $plan->price > 0 && $total_salon <= 1000 ? '6 months' : '1 month',
'billing_cycle_anchor' => Carbon::now()->addDays($free_days)->timestamp(),
'billing_cycle_anchor_confid' => [
'day_of_month' => 1,
]
]);
loud forge
Okay, great.
Assuming you have the payment method of the customer stored already, you can create an off-session charge using the PaymentIntents API
https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse?platform=web&ui=elements#charge-saved-payment-method
Once that charge is successful, you can create a subscription using the API call you shared above but add trial_period_days or trial_end date
misty ibex
But if i add the trial_period_days value, the status will be trial right ?
Can i make it active ?
But it have 6 months of subscription time ?
And the next one will be 1 month of subscription time
loud forge
The status would be trialing yes and no it won't move to active until the trial is over
But it have 6 months of subscription time ?
And the next one will be 1 month of subscription time
not sure what you mean by that
misty ibex
I want the status is Active instead of trialing, is it possible ?
Because my superior asked me to make it Active instead of trialing
Because the 6months given is not a trial but like bonus
loud forge
Hmm in that case you'd need to use a subscription schedule.
You can create two recurring prices,
1st price object - where you set interval to month and interval_count to 6
2nd price object - where you set interval to month and interval_count to 1
When you create the subscription schedule, you'll create phase 1 with 1st price object and set iteration to 1
Then in second phase to you switch the price to 2nd price object
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#upgrading-subscriptions
does that clarify @misty ibex ?
misty ibex
I think this is clear enough
Let me try first yes
Thank you so much for the support 🙏
loud forge
NP! 🙂 Good luck
misty ibex
But a moment please
loud forge
sure
misty ibex
So this means, i do not need to create subscription for the customers ?
Just create subscriptionschedule directly ?
loud forge
The subscription schedule will create a subscription, yes 🙂
You don't need to create one separately
misty ibex
I see
So if we makes 2 phase of items
It will always take the last iteration as default subcription and recurring charges right ?
loud forge
correct, once it moves to the second phase then you can release the subscription from the schedule too. Which will keep it going on the second price.
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#releasing-subscription
misty ibex
Okay, clear
Thanks hanzo
loud forge
NP! 🙂 Happy to help