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broken gulchBOT Apr 30, 2025, 8:58 PM

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delicate ferry Apr 30, 2025, 9:02 PM

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Hi there!

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I just want to make sure that you've looked at our recurring pricing models guide, which explicitly details how you would model a per-seat Subscriptions: https://docs.stripe.com/products-prices/pricing-models#per-seat

quaint pond Apr 30, 2025, 9:04 PM

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I see, so you wouldn't add new subscriptions. You would switch them to a team product that is priced per seat

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Then modify the number of seats

delicate ferry Apr 30, 2025, 9:05 PM

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Yeah and the billing would be represented by a Customer object that represents your client as an entity and has a payment method associated with it

quaint pond Apr 30, 2025, 9:06 PM

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OK I have 2 questions

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If a customer is already on a regular subscription, I am assuming I will need to switch their subscription to this new per seat model instead. Should my new default product be just a 1 seat subscription so I don't have to change them in the future?

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Our webhooks currently are set up to remove access from a user on the subscription.deleted event (when the subscription ends). How would I fire this webhook when the amount of seats changes? Should I trigger it manually instead when they remove the seat?

delicate ferry Apr 30, 2025, 9:11 PM

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That is one option, but you could also delete the Subscription and create a new one. I'm not sure if I understand the second question, though - the price is your cost per seat and then you would be using quantity to adjust the number of seats

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2 - using a per-seat model you would instead probably need to pay attention to customer.subscription.updated and look at the quantity (seats)

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https://docs.stripe.com/api/events/types#event_types-customer.subscription.updated

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So yes, you probably would want to delete Subscriptions manually in this case

quaint pond Apr 30, 2025, 9:13 PM

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I see so it's not like an entirely new product, I just need to change the quantity

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There's no special "per seat" thing I need to do to the product, just increase the quantity

delicate ferry Apr 30, 2025, 9:16 PM

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In a simple per-seat model, yes. There are other approaches where you might charge $10/seat for 0-5, $9 per seat for 6-10, and so on.

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But in a basic version, it is just a cost per seat and then adjusting the quantity to change the number of seats

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