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primal zodiacBOT Oct 10, 2024, 8:36 AM

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devout sparrow Oct 10, 2024, 8:38 AM

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Hi, let me help you with this.

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 8:41 AM

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Hey, thank you 🙂

devout sparrow Oct 10, 2024, 8:48 AM

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There's 2 ways around this:

Update the Subscription directly before the 3rd period starts - this is simpler.
Create a Subscription Schedule - this is an advanced API but will do exactly what you're looking for: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 8:49 AM

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The problem is, I want to migrate all of my subscriptions in december because on 1st of january 2025 we will have a new price
The first approach would be helpful, but the problem is that if i migrate in the middle of december, new customers can create a subscription after the migration happend and will not have a new price of the next billing cycle

devout sparrow Oct 10, 2024, 8:52 AM

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In this case I would say you can upgrade all Subscriptions on December 31 at 23:59

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 8:54 AM

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hm, we want to make this as bullet proof as possible
we have 140k active subscriptions and are required by law to charge the new price
wasnt there a "phase" thing in the past on subscriptions too?

primal zodiacBOT Oct 10, 2024, 8:59 AM

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long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 8:59 AM

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Hey! Taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:00 AM

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Hey, sure thanks 🙂

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:03 AM

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wasnt there a "phase" thing in the past on subscriptions too?
You mean Subscription Schedulers?

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https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:04 AM

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no, i thought on normal subscriptions there was something like phases/periods too
where you can set a different price for the first two months for example

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:08 AM

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You can set different prices on a particular billing period in case these prices share the same interval (monthly with monthly and weekly with weekly)

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:08 AM

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Yes, they do share the same interval
always at the first of the month

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Lets take this for an example:
In middle of december I create a stripe subscription with a backdate set to 1st of december
For december I want to use price_abc and starting with 1st of january 2025 I want to use price_xyz
Is something like that possible without needing to create schedules

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:10 AM

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The easiest way to achieve this is using Subscription Schedulers.

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If you have active Subscriptions, you can convert them easially to Subscription Schedulers

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https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-from_subscription

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:15 AM

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this would require heavy refactoring on our backend, which we want to prevent
so i guess then option 1 "Update the Subscription directly before the 3rd period starts - this is simpler." is the best we have?

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:16 AM

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Or yes you can do so, like create your own scheduler and update the Subscription just before the period start.

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:16 AM

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alright, thanks for the info 🙂

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:17 AM

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Happy to help!

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:22 AM

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one last question

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:23 AM

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Yes please

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:24 AM

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when i update the subscription with the new price
the invoice doesnt change right?
e.g. when i create one subscription in december, the payment is instantly triggered
when i now update the subscription a few hours later with the new price by a cronjob for example
the previous payment wont change to the new price right? so the new price is defeinitly just charged on the next billing cycle (1st of january)

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:27 AM

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If you want to achieve that, you need to set proration_behavior to none when you update the Subscription

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:27 AM

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perfect, thats it then 🙂 thank you

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so just an update call on the subscription with proration to none and set the new subscription item (containing the price id and the taxrate)?

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:29 AM

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Yes.

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I think that would fit to your use case

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:29 AM

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yep, sounds good

long parcel Oct 10, 2024, 9:29 AM

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I encourage you to make some tests first, using Stripe Test clock first between

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https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks

bold cypress Oct 10, 2024, 9:30 AM

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yes, we will test on our staging with stripe test environment

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