sambp_best-practices

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[red patio]

👋 happy to help

if the billing_cycle is the same you can add multiple items to the same subscription

[wispy coyote]

Hi tarzan!
The billing cycle is the same, end of the month.

But if I add multiple items to one subscription, is it still possible to define different runtimes for each item?

[red patio]

what do you mean by runtimes?

[wispy coyote]

The cancellation period

[red patio]

you can use subscription schedules to manage phases if you want yes for sure

[wispy coyote]

If a customer orders one of our items, then each item starts with a two-year minimal subscription period. I have to keep track of those individually.

Okay, that sounds interesting, I will have a look.

[wispy coyote]

I found that in the docs: "Creates a new subscription schedule object. Each customer can have up to 500 active or scheduled subscriptions."
Is it a hard limit? If I understoof the concept correct, then I need one schedule/phase for each item. EAch of our customers has thousand of those.

[mild tapir]

A schedule would map 1:1 with a subscription

What is the problem you're actually trying to solve here?

[wispy coyote]

Yeah pretty sure that the periods arent a solution for my problem.

We have a customer. He orders each week 100 IOT devices. Each device gets a monthly fee/subscription with a minimal runtime of two years. I wonna send just one single invoice/payment at the end of month per customer. A customer can have up to 10.000 active devices/subscriptions.

[mild tapir]

Yeah you can't really track different billing periods/dates under a single subscription

[wispy coyote]

Got it. I would have to do that on our side. Stripe would just help to generate the monthly invoice then, right?

[mild tapir]

In theory you can add the all the items to a single subscription that share the same billing date/period

Then deal with proration as/when you add items mid billing period

[wispy coyote]

Okay thx for the clarification!

[mild tapir]

FWIW, there is a limit on the # of items per subscription that you'll likely hit