#sylar_best-practices
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ionic mica
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Hi! Let me see what I can find for you.
In the middle of subscription period client should be able to add (extend) some products to the current subscription.
When do they pay for this? At time of addition, or as part of tthe regular billing cycle?
Ahhh ok. So I see you're building a bike rental app; unless you're doing really really long term rentals, I'm not sure the Subscription model is quite right?
sullen rampart
Hey.
They should pay calculated extra.
For example we have monthly subscription (which is ~30 days) and client adds a product on 15th day. So it should be product.monthly_cost / 2 payment (extra)
sullen rampart
Ahhh ok. So I see you're building a bike rental app; unless you're doing really...
The trick is that once user rents a bike (with some equipment) it starts kinda endless subsription (untill he returns the products)
ionic mica
Interesting.
sullen rampart
Interesting.
Ahaha, kinda pain in the ass tbh 😄
ionic mica
It's an interesting puzzle.
jade valveBOT
ionic mica
I gotta jet but my colleague @pulsar geyser has got you. 👍
sullen rampart
Ok, thanks
pulsar geyser
there are a lot of open threads so i might be a little slow! but i'm catching up now
sullen rampart
Thats alright, take ur time
pulsar geyser
ok, so theoretically i think your first question seems totally doable. subscriptions can be modified in the middle of a period and we have a prorations feature that handles the changess to cost
https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/update
We also prorate when you make quantity changes.
is that what you're looking for, or am i misunderstanding?
sullen rampart
Does this method only updates existing items in the subscription list or I can add a new one in the running subscription using this method?
pulsar geyser
it's been a bit since i've tested it but i think you can do both, let me verify
actually do you have a test environment handy? i'm juggling multiple threads atm, but i think if you call this and just pass in the items property with the existing items.id and a new item in the array it should work
sullen rampart
Thank u very much!
And the last thing:
What about using the same Subscription API for n-days rental?
pulsar geyser
ooo yes i forgot about that. i might need to circle back to you as i'm still juggling multiple threads 😅 i appreciate your patience!
sullen rampart
thanks!
pulsar geyser
ok i'm back!
working on groking your business requirements here
i've never done any testing on daily billing periods tbh, do you have a working example of that?
ok yes i just had to sanity check that we supported that 😅
ok. so your question is....
charge for daily usage, but only bill / charge on a non-daily (e.g. weekly) period?
if so i don't think we have great OOTB support for that
you could do something very complicated using billing meters and log daily usage to a meter, then charge that on whatever period you want. but then you'd need to be managing / updating the meters on your end
sullen rampart
ok. so your question is....
charge for daily usage, but only bill / charge on a...
I mean if there a custom subscription period? Like initiate 5-day subscription with no subscription renews?
jade valveBOT
thorn haven
Hello
Give me a moment to catch up here.
It is a bit information heavy thread, can you give me a quick summary of your usecase?
Can you give me an example of your usecase with example amounts to make sure we're on the same page?
sullen rampart
For example client rents a bike for 5 days. I want to use Subscription API as well for this type of period. Am I able to do that? The client will be one-time charged with no subscription prolongation