#abhinav_best-practices

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bitter kelp
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Hi, let me help you with this.

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Trial period is per Subscription, not per Subscription Item. Therefore you will need to create a new Subscription for the same Customer to support this.

stoic smelt
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But we are using a payment link. How can we achieve this?

bitter kelp
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Are you sending a different Payment Link for each product?

stoic smelt
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No.

bitter kelp
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How are you adding new products to the Subscription?

stoic smelt
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We want to let the new users subscribe to products A and product C.

stoic smelt
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But products A and product C are main subscriptions and the users have to subscribe during sign up.

bitter kelp
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You can't create 2 Subscriptions using 1 Payment Link. You will need to create 1 Subscription via PL during signup, and then create another Sub via Subscriptions API.

stoic smelt
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Yesterday, @open mist was suggesting me to use discounts to achieve this.

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I have created coupons for Product A and C. And I wanted to see how my payment link containing these 2 products will apply discounts. But it is not working.

bitter kelp
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What's not working exactly?

stoic smelt
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The payment link API doesn't give me any way to apply discounts.

bitter kelp
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Your setup seems to get too complicated for Payment Links. I suggest you to start using Stripe Checkout or custom Stripe integration instead.

stoic smelt
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For using Stripe Checkout, do we need to listen to events?

bitter kelp
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Yes. But you need to listen to webhook events even with Payment Links, if you want to synchronise it with your own system in any way.

stoic smelt
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Okay.

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Is it possible that I create a customer using a checkout session.

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val params = SessionCreateParams.builder()
.setMode(SessionCreateParams.Mode.SETUP)
.setCurrency("USD")
.setBillingAddressCollection(SessionCreateParams.BillingAddressCollection.REQUIRED)
.build()

    val session = Session.create(params)
open mist
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👋 taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

stoic smelt
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If I can get a customer created, I can then create as many subscriptions for this customer.

stoic smelt
open mist
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yes sure!

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I mean sending your customers the promotion code to use to apply the discount

stoic smelt
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will they have to type it themselves?

open mist
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yes

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if that's not possible, then you would have to revert to Checkout Sessions as my colleague suggested earlier

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I appreciate you have a very complex use-case and we're trying to accomplish it using workarounds and cutting corners but that's the best we could offer you now.

stoic smelt
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I tried creating coupons but I think I didn't select customer coupons there. And I have seen I can only edit its name and nothing else.

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I have just created 2 customer code coupons.

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I still don't see it here.

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Here's my code.

open mist
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you're not allowing promotion codes on the Payment Link

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once you do, you'll be able to type in and apply the promotion codes you just created

stoic smelt
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I can't find any reference on how to do it.

open mist
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it's just another param on the builder

stoic smelt
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But it is getting applied on 1 product, but my sceanrio is provide 3 months trial on Product A and 1 month trial on Product B.

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I need to give this $20 product free for first month as well.

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@open mist Are you still with me?

open mist
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oh maybe we don't support multiple promotion codes 🥹

stoic smelt
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So it is now Checkout Session.

open mist
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yep sorry

stoic smelt
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I need to read into it. I have no idea about it yet.

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Thanks.

open mist
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it's fairly similar

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the only difference is that the PaymentLink has only one URL from which we create (automatically for you) Checkout Sessions for each time the URL is visited

stoic smelt
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@open mist So checkout session has modes - if I use the subscription mode, it will still put both products under same subscription which will defeat the purpose.

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How exactly can I use checkout sessions to achieve my goal.

open mist
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you apply the discounts on the Checkout Session as we agreed on yesterday

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and you would pass 2 discounts

stoic smelt
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Interesting!!! Let me try this one.

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val params = SessionCreateParams.builder()
.addLineItem(
SessionCreateParams.LineItem.builder()
.setPrice(BASE_PORTAL_PRICE_ID)
.setQuantity(1L)
.build()
)
.addDiscount(
SessionCreateParams.Discount.builder().setCoupon("OQ7GRcJx").build()
)
.addLineItem(
SessionCreateParams.LineItem.builder()
.setPrice(ENERGY_BENCHMARKING_PRICE_ID)
.setQuantity(1L)
.build()
)
.addDiscount(
SessionCreateParams.Discount.builder().setCoupon("999ls8o8").build()
)
.setMode(SessionCreateParams.Mode.SUBSCRIPTION)
.setSuccessUrl("https://example.com/success")
.setCancelUrl("https://example.com/cancel")
.build();

    val session = Session.create(params)

Error - Array discounts exceeded maximum 1 allowed elements.; request-id: req_esL9VdsM9jG8T1

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It is not allowing multiple discounts. Or may be syntax issue??

open mist
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taking a look

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bitter kelp
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Hi! I'm taking over from my colleague. Please, give me a moment to catch up.

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Still looking, sorry for delay

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I suggest you to create a discount with for a custom fixed amount that will be a sum of the discounts for both products.
I.e. if both products are $100, and one discount is 20% and another is 30%, instead just create 1 one-time Coupon for $50.

stoic smelt
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It is not that simple. We need to control it my no. of days per product.

bitter kelp
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How would you achieve this with Discounts?

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I thought you want to use trial initially

stoic smelt
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Yes we need to use trials. It was your team mate's suggestion to use discounts.

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Please read the problem statement again.

bitter kelp
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I think you will need to create 2 parallel Subscriptions on the same Customer.
There's 2 approaches:

  1. Use custom UI to create one Subscription and then create the second one using the same PaymentMethod off-session.
  2. Save a payment method for future usage (using custom UI or Checkout in mode=setup), and then create 2 Subscriptions for the same Customer simultaneously.
stoic smelt
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I like approach 2.

bitter kelp