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[vast bobcat]

I don't know if the behavior is possible actually, I don't think so, but maybe with tricky parameters and some code, who knows ^^
But we like to keep it simple, if it's not possible it's ok, we will keep management of out of band payments and theirs subs out of Stripe

[glass verge]

Is the intent here to extend the subscription or is it to also generate an invoice while extending the subscription?

[vast bobcat]

both, yes. I asked comptability, as we receive a check and collect it, we legally can't wait to create the invoice

[glass verge]

The subscription you are working with, is it a yearly product?

[vast bobcat]

yes, with cancel_at_period_end when it's out of band paid, and auto renew with card

and we can't really prevent (my boss will not be ok) customers to renew it 6 months before end for example. And he will not be ok to reset the invoicing cycle and create a credit balance of the non used 6 months

[glass verge]

I can think of a workaround but it might involve adding a trial period

[vast bobcat]

I'm open to suggestions ^^

[glass verge]

Setting a trial resets the billing cycle though

[vast bobcat]

Not sure about the invoice amount problem. Since we already have the check, we need the invoice to be exactly this amount, and it seems updating the cancel_at is subect to "prorata" or something like that, it's not a simple "subscription x 2"

probably unsolvable imo

there is a way with stripe and schedule, but we would have to refacto our code too deeply to have the same behavior in out front, for our customers, not worth it

[glass verge]

we need the invoice to be exactly this amount, and it seems updating the cancel_at is subect to "prorata" or something like that, it's not a simple "subscription x 2"
Yeah that's the blocker. I was thinking you could create a new yearly price/product for the amount, update the
subscription while disabling proration and add 6 months trial to extend the subscription

Not sure if that'd work though

[vast bobcat]

another solution would have to let the API update the cancel_at without create any invoices (and we can still manually make one), but Stripe would always want to handle future payments etc

it's ok, well thanks anyway, I had to try to ask ^^

[glass verge]

Yeah creating one-off invoice could work