#gallopinggoose_best-practices
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wicked meadow
I originally thought that the phase for a scheduled subscription would end when the subscription started (leaving the subscription_id in place) but the minimum length of an iteration a phase is 1 billing cycle of the price?
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somber basin
HI 👋
What are you trying to do here? If you don't want a subscription schedule, why are you creating one?
wicked meadow
I am scheduling subscriptions to start in the future, so I need the auto start subscription in the future aspect of schedules
But having to keep track of Subscriptions that have started (without a schedule, immediately) and Subscriptions still managed by a Schedule (started by scheduling) has been frustrating so I want to release the schedules right away so that all subscriptions, if active, are not managed by a schedule
somber basin
I am assuming you have some sensible, normal billing cycle (like monthly). Is that correct?
wicked meadow
Yes, monthly and annually
The annual where the schedule sticks around for a whole year before releasing are the ones that I most want to simplify
somber basin
And are you wanting to update the Subscription after it has started or before?
wicked meadow
Both cases are something we do
I'm aware of manually releasing the subscriptions but I wanted to know if there was a way to set up the SubscriptionSchedule to release on Subscription start by itself
somber basin
No, that is not a feature that Subscription Schedules were designed with.
wicked meadow
Got it. So if I really wanted to do this, I would have to monitor for the subscription start event from the SubscriptionSchedule, then manually call a subscription.release() at that time?
somber basin
Correct. You could listen for the susbcription creation event and check the Subscription object schedule property (https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-schedule) and then make the API call to release the Schedule https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/release
wicked meadow
Thanks for your help