#carbonara_best-practices
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round nimbus
Hi, I am managing the implementation of Stripe on behalf of my company. I’m opening this ticket about Best Practices because I’m unsure how to implement a specific workflow related to subscriptions. Here is the current flow I’m working on:
- The user registers by entering their personal information.
- Based on this data, a personalized plan is created.
- Upon subscription, the user gets a 14-day paid trial.
- After the trial ends, the actual 28-day subscription period begins.
- During the subscription, the user can pause their plan.
- During the subscription, the user can modify their plan, which may change the price.
- During the subscription, the user can apply discount codes for the following month.
After consulting ChatGPT and Stripe AI, I received the following suggestions:
- Create a Subscription with a 14-day trial and add an Invoice Item.
- Create a 14-day Subscription, link it to a Subscription Schedule, and update it according to plan changes.
- Create an invoice covering the initial 14 days, then start a Subscription Schedule after those 14 days.
I would appreciate your advice, as I would like to understand what Stripe considers the best solution to implement a Subscription flow that covers all these requirements.
dusky frost
Which part specifically are you struggling with? I don't understand where the 'paid trial' part comes in from what you described
Overall everything you describe is possible, did you try just playing with the API?
round nimbus
We need to have a paid trial, but stripe doesn't support it. I know it's possible to implement our workflow, I just want know the Best Practices since I found 3 different solutions
dusky frost
The best way would be to add an one-time invoice item on the initial invoice via this param: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-add_invoice_items
You can use that alongside trial_* parameters to get what you want
round nimbus
Overall everything you describe is possible, did you try just playing with the A...
I'm currently using Stripe PHP SDK and Stripe Webhooks to track changes. I started by adding an invoice to a subscription, then I found Subscription Schedule and wanted to know if it's better
round nimbus
You can use that alongside `trial_*` parameters to get what you want
ok, but can I change the price of the subscription by updating it?
dusky frost
I'm currently using Stripe PHP SDK and Stripe Webhooks to track changes. I start...
Based on your requirements I wouldn't recommend a schedule for your use case, no. It's not necessary
round nimbus
Based on your requirements I wouldn't recommend a schedule for your use case, no...
Perfect, you saved me, really
dusky frost
Sure