#drew_best-practices
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unkempt summit
hi there!
daring quarry
hello
unkempt summit
if the credit balance is on the customer object, then it will be automatically applied to the next Invoice for that customer, so it might not be the Subscription you want yes.
I see two potential workarounds:
- each Customer only has a single subscription with multiple prices
- or don't use the customer balance at all, and instead manually add discounts on the Subscription object itself
daring quarry
Okay. And how do discounts work? If I have a subscription that cost £100 / year and I apply a discount of -£300, will that make the subscription renew at £0 for 3 years, or will it do £0 for one year and then apply the other £200 as acount credit?
unkempt summit
depends on the duration you set when creating the coupon: https://docs.stripe.com/api/coupons/object?lang=java
daring quarry
Yes, I see what you mean. If I apply a coupon to the subscription, but then the customer decides that they want to upgrade the subscription quantity mid-term, how does that work? Does the coupon get applied to the upgrade invoice as well?
unkempt summit
I would recommend to try some tests in test mode to see exactly how this works. you can use Test Clocks for this: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/testing/test-clocks
daring quarry
Okay, I will do. If I go the other route and try setting one subscription per customer, is there a way to move existing subscriptions over to a new customer?
unkempt summit
not automatically no, that will require some custom work. like figuring out which subscription to cancel and which to keep, and then updating the subscription with the new prices while making sure customers don't end up paying for the same think twice
daring quarry
Okay. I thought that might be the case. Thank you for your advice.
unkempt summit
happy to help 🙂