#vzhuh-_best-practices
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- vzhuh-_best-practices, 13 minutes ago, 7 messages
echo barn
👋 happy to help
the easiest way is to create a schedule from the current subscription, and update that to have 2 phases, the current one and the one with the lowest price
twin schoonerBOT
pulsar spruce
Taking over from my colleague. Let me know if you've any follow-up questions
hearty lotus
Hi, thank you for your quick response, so you mean not scheduled subscription itself, but schedule using phases, correct?
pulsar spruce
Well phases are a concept only available with a schedule. You can migrate their existing subscription to be controlled by a schedule which will handle the upgrade as per your requirement
Just pass from_subscription when you create the schedule: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-from_subscription
hearty lotus
@pulsar spruce One remark - I don't want to use scheduled_subscription if it's possible
pulsar spruce
There's no way to 'schedule' the upgrade like you describe then, unless you use a free trial period from the time of the upgrade until the time you want it to take effect
hearty lotus
give me a second
OK, got it
I will create schedule_subscription from flag from_subscription with phases, but in this case - initial subscription won't be canceled and no any new subscriptions
My goal exactly this - avoid subscriptions cancel where it's possible
pulsar spruce
initial subscription won't be canceled and no any new subscriptions
Correct, the sub will not cancel and still exists it's just now being controlled by the schedule you set
hearty lotus
OK, another question - if I want to cancel this request (let's say customer changed his mind), I just need to find scheduled_subscription and cancel it, correct?
In this case better to save all scheduled_ids in the database to have more control, I believe
pulsar spruce
You can just 'release' the subscription from the schedule and that will discard and pending phases: https://docs.stripe.com/api/subscription_schedules/release
hearty lotus
so release better than cancel?
pulsar spruce
It you cancel the schedule then it'll cancel the subscription entirely, rather than just the pending upgrade
Sounds like that is not what you wanted
hearty lotus
Yes, sure 🥶 thank you for your help! 🤗
pulsar spruce
np
hearty lotus
May I ask one more question?
pulsar spruce
Sure!
hearty lotus
Like an opposite case:
- I want to upgrade plan from $10 to $30
- Imagine initial subscription started 01.01.2026
- Today is 12.01.2026 - I want to upgrade my subscription
- Now for upgrade I need to do that immediately with proration, so I as customer should extra pay the difference for the end of current month
- And 02.02.2026 - I will be charged new price and new product attached with price = $30
What the best practice here?
pulsar spruce
You'd just do a normal upgrade on the subscription switch the price and be sure to prorate via proration_behavior: 'always_invoice': https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/change-price#changing
hearty lotus
OK, so price_id is referenced to the product, corret?
pulsar spruce
What do you mean?
It's the ID of the price you want the customer to subscribe to (price_abc)
hearty lotus
yes, but will it change the product inside the subscription
for example: I have 2 plans:
- Level_1 with price = $10
- Level_2 with price = $30
Level_1 attached to the subscription, if I will change a price to $30 like in article https://docs.stripe.com/billing/subscriptions/change-price#changing
Will I have a subscription with product Level_2 inside as the result?
it's important to for me to track correct product because of statistics
pulsar spruce
Yes the parent product of the price will be associated to the subscription if they're different
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hearty lotus
is that possible only via API? I don't see that on the dashboard
mild olive
hey there, taking over from my colleague 👋
do you mean that you don't see the way to change the Price for a subscription via the dashboard?
if so, you can open the subscription and click 'Update subscription' to bring up the UI where you can make this change
hearty lotus
OK, understand
Thank you!