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wide thicket
Hi, let me help you with this.
What do you mean by "invoke an SI"?
Yes Prices must belong to a Product
Each price can be a phase in the schedule?
Phases in the Schedule can specify different sets of Subscription Items, each of which can refer to a Price.
But phases can also specify other changes like quantity, discounts, tax rates, currency, settings etc: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-items
What are you trying to achieve exactly?
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gritty crag
So what we want to achieve, and the last person was very helpful but I failed to ask all relevant questions, is:
In our platform they can create a product which is ultaimtely a subscription service.
The product could be simple and just be bill X every Y
The product could be more complex, so bill X which covers a duration of 3 months, then bill Y every month
The product could have more phases, X for first 3 months (upfront payment), then Y every month for 3 months, then Z every month there after
I am not clear on whether a price can be created and not linked to a product.
If not, can the product have 3 prices that can be used in the 3 phases refernced in the last product type mentioned above?
Pbviously the prices / product must exist in stripe before the subscription cab be created (and subscipriotn item (SI))
plush thicket
Hello, thanks for the clarification. Yes products can have multiple prices and you can switch between those prices across different phases of a subscription schedule
Have you tried some of this in test mode and gotten stuck anywhere? Happy to help work through it
gritty crag
Ok that makes more sense. So I can create one product, lets call it 'My coaching service'. That one product could have 3 prices, 1 of which is default.
I assume the default price doesn't matter and has no bearing on the price applied at release?
When a schedule is created, based on information we store our side that defines the phase order (our schema), the phases would cycle through the prices for that one product?
plush thicket
Correct, the default on a price actually only effects things in the Stripe dashboard. In the API you will always be specifying a price ID so we will charge whatever amount that price is for
And correct, that is exactly how subscription schedules work
gritty crag
OK great, I think i have a good understanding of this now. We will create one product but it will have multiple prices where necessary. We will check this when creating subscipritons and where this is present, create a schedule instead which will automatically create the subscription.
End behaviour of release will roll over the subscription to the last price in the schedule.
End behaviour of cancel will cancel the subscription immediately at the end of the schedule
products with a single price won't require a schedule and continue indefinitely unless the product is configured our side with a limited duration. In this circumstrance, it is best crearted via schedule with one phase with the cycle being equal to the duration intended
plush thicket
Yep, sounds like you have it! Let us know if you run in to any other questions
gritty crag
Thanks Pompey!
one last question!
If I am creating a subscription that should start in 5 days... must this be done via a schedule, or can this be facilitated via a normal subscription?
plush thicket
Yes the best way to do that would be a schedule, I've heard of some users using a trial to do this without a schedule but that creates another invoice and the messaging on it can be confusing if there isn't actually a trial happening
gritty crag
But is there not a start_date field in the schedule? I assumed this value means the schedule + subscription would get created, but would not be active until the start_date occurs? Is that not the way do it instead of a trial? As with a trial period, is it not technically active right away?