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frosty snow
Just a little clarification, this use-case is when updating from monthly subscriptions to yearly subscriptions
hidden sleet
Hi there 👋 how are you setting the trial period initially when creating the Subscription?
Switching from a monthly price to a yearly price does also cause the Subscription to be immediately moved to the next billing period.
frosty snow
And then that's why the free trial ends, right?
because it's a different billing period
hidden sleet
I believe so, yes. Can you try passing in the trial_end parameter as part of your update request, with the desired ending timestamp of the trial period, to see if that preserves the trial period duration as you're hoping?
frosty snow
I will give that a try, sure.
Now, we are implementing the Stripe customer portal as well so our customers will be able to upgrade the plan themselves. I guess we cannot establish to keep the free trial as a behavior by default, right?
hidden sleet
Correct, that is a current limitation of the Customer Portal, where modifying a trialing Subscription results in the trial period being ended:
https://docs.stripe.com/customer-management#:~:text=Customer modifications to a trialing subscription will end the free trial and create an invoice for immediate payment
frosty snow
I see, thank you very much for your clarifications
hidden sleet
Any time!
frosty snow
I hope you have a great weekend. Take care!