#tyler_best-practices
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spring siren
Hi, taking a look here
shrewd canopy
Thanks!
spring siren
Hi, you can make the call to update the current subscription: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/update after the trial is over
Here is a bit more on how to achieve this: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/upgrade-downgrade
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shrewd canopy
When the trial is up, will an invoice automatically be generated then?
spring siren
You can listen to this event, https://docs.stripe.com/api/events/types#event_types-customer.subscription.trial_will_end and update the subscription then
shrewd canopy
And will I need to generate the invoice then? Or can I have Stripe do that for me?
spring siren
Stripe will do that for you. I recommend that you test this fully. You can use Test Clocks, https://docs.stripe.com/billing/testing/test-clocks to advance time
This allows you to test subscription behavaiors without having to wait
shrewd canopy
Oh, awesome!
spring siren
Sure
shrewd canopy
For our annual plan, we prorate to the last 28th day of the year, so it would be just shy of 12 month usually. We need to be able to let the user know what their prorated price will be. Is this possible to be able to know what the upcoming invoice that would be generated would be? Would that be the event you mentioned earlier for this as well?
spring siren
Yes, you can listen to that event and then use the upcoming invoice for instance, https://docs.stripe.com/api/invoices/upcoming to see what it would look like
shrewd canopy
Do you know when that is created? Is it right after the subscription is create? Any way to know what it would be before the subscription is created?
I am thinking during the checkout we want to let them know what the prorated price would be. I can calculate it, but obviously if I could get that from Stripe it would be better.
spring siren
It almost looks like you might want to look at https://docs.stripe.com/customer-management
You create the subscription with the trial. Then, during the trial your customer can use the Customer Portal to manage their subscriptions.
You can control what they can/ can't change there
shrewd canopy
I think I looked at that, but it seemed like the URL for the customer portal needed to be generated and was only good for 24 hours or something?
Is there a way to get a static URL for them to use?
I just don't want to have to make an API call every time they access the console to render the URL
Oh, I guess I can just make it a route and handle the redirect after I get the URL from Stripe
Ok, this gives me a lot to go off of. Thanks so much
spring siren
Sure
shrewd canopy
Random question - do you know who built or provides this Discord integration you use? Or was it made in-house?
spring siren
Our teammate built it using Discord' API.
shrewd canopy
Thanks - it's great.