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digital elbow
hello! You'll want to create a new yearly Price object, then you can change the Price being using in the Subscription. You can take a look at this guide : https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/upgrade-downgrade
barren summit
hello Alex, so I dont have to cancel the existing subscription and start a new one with yearly plan, I only have to update the subscription by creating a new yearly price?
Am I on the track?
digital elbow
You can try it out and see if it works as per how you expect
barren summit
But one thing
Won't it results in adding the new price so both prices are active for the subscription
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digital elbow
When you update the Subscription, you specify the subscription item to apply the updated price to.
barren summit
Ok let me try this
merry dirge
👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me know if there's any follow-up Qs I can answer!
barren summit
Let me clarify it again, initially the broker subscribes to a plan through checkout session, for which I created a price inline, but now when I try to update the subscription, it says-
The product prod_Pfq5bsmtjeVkox is marked as inactive, and thus no new subscriptions can be create to any plans of this product. You provided the plan price_1OwLFvDUy9jKM7XyHnwLujHp.
So does this error persists because I had created the price inline?
merry dirge
when you want to update the price for a subscription you need to create a new price that links to a product that is still active
inline products won't work in this case
barren summit
So what's the solution if I have already created inline products?
How to change the billing interval in that case?
barren summit
Let me try this and get back to you
merry dirge
sure
barren summit
And one more thing
I want that the billing interval change should be effective from the period_end of current billing, is this possible?
merry dirge
in that case it's better to use Subscription Schedules
barren summit
So this is possible in Subscription Schedules-
"you need to create a new product and a new price and then update the subscription"?
merry dirge
"you need to create a new product and a new price and then update the subscription"?
you need to do this regardless of how you update the subscription
the subscription schedule helps you update the price at the end of the billing cycle
merry dirge
first create a product
then create a price with the product id from the product you just created
once you do that you would create a subscription schedule from the existing subscription https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#existing-subscription
and then you follow this guide https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#changing-subscriptions for the final step of your flow
barren summit
Thanks for the help, let me try this
barren summit
Created a subscription schedule, but unable to change the start and end time
This is the request id-req_56XtDQjSTkH30g
merry dirge
once you do this step
you need to then use the subscription schedule ID it generated
with the last step I shared
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barren summit
{
items: [
{
price:price.id,
quantity: 1,
},
],
iterations: 1,
},
So I need to pass only one object in items array?
The id of the price which I just created?
merry dirge
no you need to pass two phases
the same way it's described in the docs I sent you
did you take a look at that doc?
barren summit
Did the same but not able to change the subscription billing interval, may be I am missing something
const subscriptionSchedule = await stripeInstance.subscriptionSchedules.update(
schedule.id,
{
phases: [
{
items: [
{
price: schedule.phases[0].items[0].price,
quantity: schedule.phases[0].items[0].quantity,
},
],
start_date: schedule.phases[0].start_date,
end_date: schedule.phases[0].end_date,
},
{
items: [
{
price: price.id,
quantity: 1,
},
],
iterations: 1,
},
],
}
);
Here is the relevant part of the code
solemn warren
what that does is change the subscription to whatever price.id is, at the end of the current cycle. Is that not what you wanted? If so, what did you want?
barren summit
Yup, but shouldn't it take the interval of the price I just created after the subscription schedule is updated i.e. interval:"year"?
This is the request id of the price creation-req_dl1evyhei5Dh7x