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stone cobaltBOT Jan 20, 2026, 9:32 AM

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stiff sparrow Jan 20, 2026, 9:36 AM

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hey there - no event triggers on the second day of a trial period for a subscription

are you trying to manually create a pre-auth for a payment, separate to the subscription? the customer will be billed as part of the subscription when the trial ends, so it's not clear to me how the pre-auth is intended to fit into this

sharp shell Jan 20, 2026, 9:39 AM

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I want to create preauth exactly like this but on the 2nd day of trial

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stiff sparrow Jan 20, 2026, 9:45 AM

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can you confirm what the purpose of this pre-auth is?

for example, do you just want to validate that the customer's card can be charged, or do you want to capture the pre-auth (i.e. take an additional payment, outside the subscription)

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to answer your question more directly, there's no event that Stripe fires on the second day of a subscription, so you'd need to control the timing of this pre-auth manually on your side (rather than creating it in response to an action on Stripe's side)

sharp shell Jan 20, 2026, 9:46 AM

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I want to hold the payment amount till the trial ends

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Is there a way I can create preauth on day 2

stiff sparrow Jan 20, 2026, 9:50 AM

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ok cool - you'd need to manage the timing of this yourself, since Stripe doesn't send any event on day 2

sharp shell Jan 20, 2026, 9:51 AM

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Can you suggest how that can be done

stiff sparrow Jan 20, 2026, 9:55 AM

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The usual approach would be something like: when the subscription/trial starts (via customer.subscription.created), store the start time and schedule your own job to run 2 days later; also listen for subscription updates/cancellations to reschedule or cancel the job.

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So you'd get the customer.subscription.created event, and compute the target timestamp (i.e. target_time = subscription.trial_start + 2 days)

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