#dick-flair_best-practices

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empty oak
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Hi there, let me type out the rest of my question

shadow brook
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👋 happy to help

empty oak
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I was wondering what the best practice for my current issue. I am using stripe to integrate a payment system into my web portal. I am allowing monthly/yearly subscriptions and also allowing upgrade/downgrades. For downgrading, I use subscription schedules for this to update a subscription, i.e. decrease a quantity at the end of the currently billing cycle, i.e. if it's a monthly rolling subscription, the next month will be minus 1 in quantity. I am implementing webhooks so that this reflects on my database, i.e. if the quantity on the subscription is 4 then make sure the one in my DB is 4 as well. As for the upgrades, the upgrades act in a different way in that this change happens immediately to the subscription and the customer gets charged immediately, and as part of this, the quantity or whatever else I need to update in my DB also gets updated. I was utilising the customer.subscription.updated webhook event to mainly handle the downgrade but this also gets triggered when I do an upgrade but I don't need this to be updating on the upgrade update because I already handle that

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I was initially trying out the subscription_schedule.released event not realising that this only gets triggered at the end of the phase, i.e. if in the middle of month 1, I decrease to qty of 4, month 2 comes and updates the subscription, the schedule does not get released until month 3 which doesn't quite work for what I need, as I would need to update my DB as soon as the subscription is updated

shadow brook
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I think the best way to handle any subscription provisioning is using invoice.paid

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this abstracts all of the different things happening in the background

empty oak
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I'll take a look now and test but while I have you, would this contain the subscription object/details?

shadow brook
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once an invoice is generated and paid for a subscription you're a 100% sure that you can provision access to your services

shadow brook
empty oak
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Sorry, 1 more question. If I was also using stripe indenpdently to create invoices that has nothing to do with the subscriptions, etc. I'm assuming this would still fire the event but it will not contain a subscription ID?

shadow brook
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yes that's correct

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but also relying on the billing_reason you can see the different scenarios whether this is related to a subscription or a manually created invoice

empty oak
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Actually yep, that's perfect for what I need. I can work with this. Thanks tarzan