#ollieprentice_api
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Hey there, is the up front price the same as the recurring payment, or a different amount?
pulsar elm
Hey, yeah it's the same
plucky karma
ok thanks, give me a few minutes to confirm what i think you need here
compact nymphBOT
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This is proving more challenging than expected -- what I wanted to do isn't working like I expect
So with prorations disabled, setting the billing cycle anchor to june 1, for example, with 3-mo recurring prices, leads to a 0$ first payment.
I think instead you should allow that first payment to be prorated. It will make less sense to charge the "full amount" as you get close to june 1. Would you charge the full amount on May 25th, too?
If you really want to do this, you should omit the initial billing cycle anchor, and let CHeckout charge the full amount up front.
Then, you can can manage the billing cycle to align how you want after that, for example using subscription schedules: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#resetting-anchor
pulsar elm
Thanks for the help. Because my product is intended to be delivered every solstice and equinox I need to fix the billing on these months.
I will be blocking customers from ordering 1 month before a bill date, directing them to a wait list.
I’ll look into those docs, thanks. Another idea I’ve just thought of but not yet tried is to submit the one time payment and then create the subscription on success.
Ultimately though, if stripe checkout allowed me to have that one time item, whilst setting proration_behaviour to none, I could achieve what I wanted with one action.