samip_best-practices

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[verbal silo]

Just a follow up : https://docs.stripe.com/api/coupons Should I be using the coupons API to update for each individual customer or can I provide a way for them to enter themselves and validate using some other APIs ? A bit confused here.

[coarse vine]

Hi @verbal silo both works, you can create a coupon and apply it to the subscription directly, or you can create a promo code and let your customer enters it in customer billing portal

[verbal silo]

The only point of confusion for me is : Once a customer has started their subscription , they should never ideally see the stripe billing page as the charges are automatically deducted from their account every X date of a month.

Now, if I want the customer to come in and manually apply a promo code. Should I make changes to the subscription rule itself ?

Or, should I update the customer by providing them some other PROMO code and handling the actual logic myself from the backend ?

[coarse vine]

If you don't want them to visit the billing poratl, then you can apply a coupon on the subscriptoin by yourself.