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hushed garnet
Why are you creating a new subscription when upgrading the plan? Why can't you update the existing subscription and preview the proration amount on existing subscription (https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/prorations#preview-proration )?
heavy musk
We were using the preview, but by the time the user clicks to upgrade, the amount is different.
It's only a few cents, but it's not what we promised and we feel weird about it.
Another alternative we were thinking is to allow the users to create their own custom subscription with different quantities of price ids in the portal? But ... we're not sure if we can create a second portal...
Or maybe we can add a timestamp to the upgrade call so the amounts align?
hushed garnet
Yes, proration_date can be added to the Update Subscription API to align with subscription_proration_date in preview: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-proration_date, so that the exact proration amount will be the same for both preview and actual update
heavy musk
Awesome, thank you!