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hot carbon
You want to change the subscription's billing cycle anchor. Pausing the subscription does not do that. I think it would be better to use a free trial instead: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/billing-cycle#add-a-trial-to-change-the-billing-cycle
solid ruin
Can we do the following:
- Create annual subscription on January 1. The next billing date is automatically set to January 1st.
- Pause the subscription on January 1
- Unpause the subscription on January 15th
- Change the subscription's billing cycle anchor to January 15th
- All future invoices will be changed on January 15th
hot carbon
Do you want a proration to be applied for the time paused?
solid ruin
No, I want to extend the subscription to account for the time paused.
hot carbon
Ah ok
So I think for the behavior you want, the easiest thing to do would be to add a trial to the subscription when you unpause it with a trial end date to be Jan 15th of the next year (in your above example)
that ensures the next time the sub is billed is jan 15th the next year and it will continue to be billed on jan 15th each year
solid ruin
How would that impact our trial metrics and MRR? In this example the subscription is paid at creation on January 1 and we'd like it to count towards MRR once the subscription is unpaused.
hot carbon
Not sure. We're not familiar with the dashboard metrics in here
We just help with api questions
As an alternative you could use a subscription schedule: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#resetting-anchor
solid ruin
Ok, so for subscription schedule using the current example, we would reset the billing anchor to be January 15th of the following year. Correct?
And alll future invoices would be on January 15th
hot carbon
Nah it would be slightly different. This is a more complicated approach. You'd create normal subscription recurring on Jan 1. When customer pauses, you create a subscription schedule from the subscription. When customer goes to unpause, you update the subscription schedule to end the current phase and start a new phase with the same price, which is recurring on the 15th
solid ruin
Like this?
- Create annual subscription on January 1 2024. The next billing date is automatically set to January 1 2024.
- Pause the subscription on January 1. Create a subscription schedule from the subscription.
- Unpause the subscription on January 15th
- Update the subscription schedule to end the current phase and start a new phase with the same price, which is recurring on the 15th
- All future invoices will be changed on January 15th 2025
I am confused about this part: subscription schedule from the subscription.
How can we create a subscription schedule if we do not know when the subscription will be unpaused?
hot carbon
You're just adding a schedule to the existing sub
Just calling that adds your current subscription as the only phase in the sub
solid ruin
Understood about adding a schedule but what dates are we using the the schedule if we are unaware of the the subscription will be unpaused.