#madwifi_best-practices
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latent pilot
free-days to an an active subscription with prorations
Can you speak more to this? What are you prorating exactly if it's 'free'?
wise verge
OK, if the subscription is in active phase, I wanted to remaining days to be prorated back to the user. Essentially, if the plan is $20/year, and the user subscribed for 6 months, then in phase 2 the user should be charged only $10 ($20 of plan - $10 from remaining time)
Does this make it clearer?
latent pilot
What's happening in phase 2? Are you upgrading/downgrading their plan?
then in phase 2 the user should be charged only $10 ($20 of plan - $10 from remaining time)
Because what you describe is how basic proration works for upgrades/downgrades – we'd apply credit for the unused time
wise verge
Phase 1 - give user free trial
Phase 2 - resume their previous plan
because stripe doesn't allow prorating an active subscription when giving a free trial, this is getting complex for me
latent pilot
I think you'd be better off just applying a coupon/discount for the 2nd phase as you can't really apply prorations in relation to trials
wise verge
hmm, I cannot do that as there is a different flow for coupon/discounts.
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unborn pasture
hi there!
when you create the schedule, you can set discount to change the amount the customer has to pay. this should have no impact on your existing flow. https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-items-discounts
wise verge
hmm. the problem with discount is that the user can choose different plan and they can avail this offer any time as well, so I would be creating arbitary discounts left-right-and-center if I am to use this.
e.g., a user availaling the offer on $30/month plan on day 1 would need different proration than another person who is on a $50/year plan availing the offer on day 25
unborn pasture
yes, you could dynamically generate the coupon to adjust the price the customer pays.
wise verge
technically yes, but just because I can, it doesn't mean that I should. 🙂 The Finance/Reporting team would cause a ruckus if I do that, so it would be not an ideal scenario to put it mildly.
unborn pasture
then you have to add 3 phrases to your schedule:
- phase 1: free trial
- phase 2: custom price
- phase 3: resume their previous plan
wise verge
would it be possible to delete the price once the phase 2 is complete?
unborn pasture
sure. or don't create a Price at all, and use price_data instead: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/create?lang=node#create_subscription_schedule-phases-items-price_data
wise verge
ohh! this is a new info. will look into it.