#bungee_checkout-prorations
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burnt herald
Sorry I missed your question! Are you trying to update an existing subscription? Is this a new Subscription you're creating?
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bungee_checkout-prorations
burnt herald
@gray girder just checking in to make sure you saw my questoin
gray girder
Hi! Yes update a subscription via checkout session
burnt herald
You can't update Subscriptions through Checkout Sessions - you can only create new ones.
You should be using things like the Customer Portal if you want a stripe-hosted UI where you can update a subscription
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gray girder
My flow is the following:
- User subscribes to plan A (15$)
- Then they decide to upgrade to plan B (30$)
Due to proration, there's a $15 credit after upgrading that it's added to their balance, which I prefer to refund immediately. However, the credit appears an hour post-invoice, not instantly, making immediate refunds challenging as the balance temporarily shows $0. Can the checkout session be adjusted for immediate charging, allowing instant credit for any proration?
burnt herald
Again, the Checkout Session wouldn't be involved in the upgrading at all since that's soemthing you can only use for subscription creation. How are you upgrading your Subscription to plan B? Usually with upgrade the Invoice is finalized immediately, so I 'm surprised you're seeing the one hour delay. Do you have an example subscription we could take a look at?
gray girder
To upgrade the plan I'm creating a new Checkout Session with the parameter proration behavior, as shown here: https://docs.stripe.com/api/checkout/sessions/create#create_checkout_session-subscription_data-proration_behavior
The previous subscription is cancelled, and the new one is applied. Attached is a screenshot of a test that I performed using test mode.
In this example, I went from a plan of $30 to one of $60.
scarlet oasis
👋 Ah the delay is because you're creating a new subscription which is not required.
You can upgrade an existing subscription instead
You can specify the proration behavior when you update a subscription object
gray girder
Oh! Interesting, that should help, thanks!
Another quick question: is it a good practice (as a workaround) to listen to the webhook event payment_intent.succeeded and perform the refund when listening to it? Or is preferred to use the subscription endpoint instead?
scarlet oasis
What are these refunds for exactly?
gray girder
Trying to refund Credit Balance to customer after Subscription Downgrade or Cancellation
scarlet oasis
Gotcha. Since you're working with subscriptions which uses invoices to manage subscription statuses, I'd say you should listen to invoice.paid event instead.
gray girder
Ah! makes sense, cool cool, thanks!