#sarge_annual-price-monthly-reminders
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stoic fossil
Hello 👋
Stripe will only send webhook events when customers are invoiced and paid. If your customers are paying once a year, we will notify you once a year.
Why would you need to be pinged once a month if your customers only pay once a year?
ebon coral
idea is to give user credits every month rather than gibing them as a large bulk, there is a chance of doing up selling more credits during the months their usage is too large. This can give balance and they can avoid running out of usage towards the end of the year
there is also an idea of making sold credits expiring, so unspent credits disappear, and new month it refreshes
stoic fossil
Gotcha, that makes sense. Unfortunately, since the payment is annual, that feature would be outside Stripe.
I would model it as a feature that is enabled/disabled on your integration Customer level. Then you run a cron job every month, like you said, and for every Customer who has paid for their year, you add a fresh batch of credits.
ebon coral
Understood, good to know! I was going to go with cronjobs but thought it would just make sense if Stripe has this, incase we migrate and i lose all cron jobs.
stoic fossil
You could even use the Stripe API to check if the Customer has the right active subscription.
As for Stripe storing state for you, maybe you could leverage metadata on the Customer object? Have the cron job set the date of the last credit grant? That way you have a record to start from if you need to rebuild your cron jobs.
ebon coral
I use Stripe through purchase urls, and don't have a very deep integration yet due to my lack of knowledge yet. I use metadata to recognize item details but never tried to mutate the customer data on our backend. I guess the moment succesful yearly payment happens I can set the cronjob to nth day of the month. Dealing with dates kind of tricky ill try to be careful with this.
But at least now I know cron jobs are the way to go.
Thank you so much for help! Kiitos!
stoic fossil
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