#abishek_best-practices
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- abishek_best-practices, 50 minutes ago, 9 messages
dusk gyro
Hi there 👋 I'm not exactly sure offhand, I haven't tried that approach before. I would recommend testing it in testmode and see if it behaves the way you're hoping.
tired fjord
ok
similar to deleting specific subscription items from a subscription, is it possible to pause the billing of specific subscription items?
dusk gyro
No, pausing can only be done at the Subscription level, not the Subscription Item level.
tired fjord
ok, thank you
based on the docs here https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/webhooks what is the ideal webhook to receive subscription renewal updates?
I am currently listening to subscription.updated, but want to eliminate the events when a subscription is resumed, paused
dusk gyro
customer.subscription.updated is likely the best option, unless one of the Invoice payment ones works better for the specifics of your flow.
You would need to add your own filtering logic to discard events that you aren't concerned with, you can't have Stripe filter those out.
tired fjord
any way to identify if the webhook is specific to renewal
dusk gyro
The billing period will change, but you can use a Test Clock to simulate your full flow in testmode
https://docs.stripe.com/billing/testing/test-clocks/simulate-subscriptions
This will allow you to see exactly what Events your flow is triggering, and what they will contain
tired fjord
no, I am not asking Stripe to filter out, in a previous app, I listened to invoice.payment_succeeded event and there is a billing reason that has the value subscription_cycle indicating that its a renewal. Just checking to see if there is anything similar on the subscription.updated event..
dusk gyro
No, Subscriptions do not have that attribute.
dusk gyro
proration_behavior is a valid parameter for the endpoint to delete a Subscription Item:
https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_items/delete#delete_subscription_item-proration_behavior
it allows you to control the proration behavior that is used when that item is deleted.
tired fjord
ok, thank you
dusk gyro
Any time!
tired fjord
got one more question, the Cancel subscription https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/cancel cancells the subscription immediately and it accepts a reason. To cancel a subscription at the end of the cycle, I have to use the subscriptions update with cancel_at_period_end set to true. Is there a way to capture the cancel reason when cancelling at th end of cycle? Right now this option is only there for the cancel method
ah, never mind
there is a cancellation_details property
missed that
the only exception is specifying a reason when deleting a subscription item, no way to set the reason for that
if a customer wants to cancel the cancellation of a subscription set to expire at the end of cycle, will setting the cancel_at_period_end to false be enough?
dusk gyro
Should be
tired fjord
if no propration is set on the update subscription when deleting subscription items, do I assume that deletion of the subscription item will only happen at the end of the cycle and is there a way to revert it if the customer wants to cancel the deletion