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sturdy yoke
Hello
Yeah if you want that level of customization then you are going to need to build your own UI to handle upgrades/downgrades
wind drum
Hi, in API level, what should I use to achieve this behavior
sturdy yoke
Well first, why do you want to cancel a Subscription and create a new one?
Why not just update the Subscription Item?
wind drum
Yes we can also do that. Will that be easier?
sturdy yoke
Yes
wind drum
Doing this way will need more complicated logic to handle updating subscription at our backend, but if that's easier to integrate stripe api then we are ok with that
sturdy yoke
You can do either way, but just updating the Subscription is much cleaner
In terms of how to go about doing that using the API, we detail that here: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/upgrade-downgrade
You want to set proration_behavior: 'none' and billing_cycle_anchor: 'now' if you want to charge immediateley for hte full price with no proration
wind drum
Can I do this on the customer portal?
sturdy yoke
No not with the limitations that you want
You can't reset the billing anchor with the Customer Portal
wind drum
For billing_cycle, my upgrade and downgrade behaviors are different, upgrade will work immediately and downgrade will wait until the priod ends
so this is the problem right? Customer portal can not handle this
sturdy yoke
Customer Portal can't do either of those things, no.
wind drum
Cool. Can you give me some instruction about the api to do upgrade and downgrade in this logic?
sturdy yoke
Yeah so I already mentioned above how to do the upgrade
You update the Subscription Item to the new Price and use proration_behavior and billing_cycle_anchor like I mentioned above
For downgrading you'll have to use a Subscription Schedule if you want to wait until the end of the cycle to trigger the downgrade: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules