#taviksha-akar_subscription-cancel-and-schedules
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spring gyro
Hi, what's your question exactly?
delicate cairn
My question is I have a scheduled subscription and have its subscription.
The subscription is active. I need to set its cancellation date to a future date and need to take the prorated charges till the cancellation date.
For this I am updating the subscription and passing date in "cancel_at".
But getting this error "The subscription is managed by the subscription schedule sub_sched_1PzbAMIE5Vvk0efG7Tjfnkhz, and updating any cancelation behavior directly is not allowed. Please update the schedule instead
spring gyro
As the error message suggests, you need to update/cancel the Subscription Schedule instead:
You don't want to cancel it immediately, right?
delicate cairn
Yes, I don't want to cancel it immediately.
spring gyro
Then you will need to update the current phase and set end_date: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/update#update_subscription_schedule-phases-end_date
Also set end_behavior=cancel: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/update#update_subscription_schedule-end_behavior
delicate cairn
But what if I need to reactive the subscription and remove cancellation
lyric skyBOT
spring gyro
Do the same - update the current phase.
delicate cairn
means need to update the current phase and need to add the other phases that have been removed when cancellation set by giving end_date.
This will be a complex way
Is there any other way to do so or may be using pause subscription. Can we pause a subscription or a schedule subscription on a particular date and take the prorated charges till that date?
round spruce
Actually you can pause the payment collection following this guide:
https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/pause-payment
I invite you to do some simulations using Stripe test Clocks:
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks
delicate cairn
Can we pause a subscription for a particular date and not immediately?
round spruce
No, but you can create a mechanisme in your integration (like internal cron) that pauses the Subscription on the target date.
delicate cairn
No but i need to take the prorated charges till the pause date. Internal cron will not work in this case.
round spruce
Why ? there is no impact on the proration
It's like pausing the Subscription today
Have you tried to make a test ?
delicate cairn
{"success":false,"message":"The subscription is managed by the subscription schedule sub_sched_1PzcGOIE5Vvk0efGXkhlpwb1, and updating any cancelation behavior directly is not allowed. Please update the schedule instead."}
this was the error when updating the subscription and setting cance_at date. Is there any direct way to cancel the scheduled subscription on a particular dare without involving phases in it.
round spruce
I think this was answered already in the beginning of the discussion
delicate cairn
The answer was based on the phases. I am looking for a way without use of phases. That is very complex way to do
round spruce
Or you can implement your own schedule to trigger the cancel API call on the target date
These are the only available options..
delicate cairn
No I cannot schedule it at my end. My main motive is to take the prorated charges till the cancellation date.
round spruce
You need to wait until the cancelation date in order to compute the proration in this case.
delicate cairn
Actually my use case is to create a cancellation schedule and take the end term charge immediately.
ornate edge
Hi there 👋 can you elaborate a bit on what that means, and help me understand what you're trying to ask there?
lyric skyBOT