#chip_best-practices
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dense coral
And just to understand correctly, the best approach is to initially create a checkout with the annual price -> listen to webhook -> start a subscription with the usage based price? And "next year", create a new invoice with the annual price again?
gleaming knot
You I store this somewhere in the DB...on the subscription metadata? I'll provide an image as wel.
Yes those are two valid optoins
dense coral
Sounds good! I'll try testing it with metadata first 🙌 thanks
gleaming knot
Welcome!
dense coral
And just to understand correctly, the best approach is to initially create a che...
Am I thinking correct here, btw? It shouldn't be the other way around either?
gleaming knot
Actually, the first Checkout will create an annual Subscription, so each year a new invoice will be created automatically
As you'll be using annual price
So no need to create a new Checkout Session
dense coral
Right, and how do we then handle the other price which is usage-based on monthly basis
gleaming knot
As you said, you create a separate Subscription
and track the link between them using metadata or via your own database
dense coral
Ah, my bad. I tried to say if I should only have one subscription and create a invoice with the API for the annaul fee
Using the upcoming invoice to check if its been a year since the subscription was started.
Does that make sense? 😄
To me it does sound like more work than needed, but I'm just making sure here 😄
gleaming knot
You can't create a single Subscription with different billing period
The only and eaisiest option here is to create two Subscription.
dense coral
You can't create a single Subscription with different billing period
No, that's true. In this case, the usage-based monthly subscription would be the only one, and when the user has been on that sub for 12 months, we listen to the webhooks and create a invoice for the other fee as well outside of the sub 😄
But I'll test with two subscriptions first. Sounds atleast easier! THanks