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woven widget
Hi, that is how the subscription works currently, https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/overview depending on the price. We charge upfront for a yearly subscription for instances. Can you share a bit more about your business use case?
glass anvil
Yes, so we currently have annual and monthly subscriptions on the platform
What we want to achieve is if the user reaches a threashold we want them to pay for another month/year based on their sub type.
Since we want the ongoing subscription to continue as is, since we also increase the prices (and wants users to stay of same subscription prices), we will ask users to pay through this link (that i shared initially , manual invoice payment link)
Once user pays I will them update the current subscription billing cycle accordingly.
woven widget
You can use subscription updates: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/change-price instead, https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/change-price#immediate-payment. If the customwr already has a payment method on that subscription, you would not need to ask the customer for another payment method. If there a reason as to why you would want to do that?
glass anvil
This will not solve our use-case, as I am talking a bit more about advance payments or rather getting the upcoming cycle payment beforehand.
Updating the current subscription will change the price and other details of the ongoing subscription which I then again have to revert back at some point.
woven widget
I highly recommend that you use Test Clock, https://docs.stripe.com/billing/testing/test-clocks to test this behavior. One of your questions is around the impact on taxes which we would not be able to assist directly. As for the first question, the invoice should should not impact subscriptions as this would be a separate product/ API