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weak remnant Sep 10, 2021, 7:03 PM

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that's expected because a coupon applies to the Invoice not the underlying Price duration

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We don't have a way to have a 2 months off coupon that discounts 2 months off of a 3months price

shy sparrow Sep 10, 2021, 7:12 PM

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OK - Thank you @weak remnant

weak remnant Sep 10, 2021, 7:17 PM

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does that make sense overall?

shy sparrow Sep 10, 2021, 7:20 PM

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It does but does not solve my problem. I'm thinking of coding something up that would put a negative balance on the invoice but would have to track the prices/coupons etc externally from stripe. Any other suggestions?

torpid tapir Sep 10, 2021, 7:34 PM

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Are you just looking for alternatives on how to approach a coupon that is "2 months free" for a 3 month price? Would a 66% off coupon not work?

shy sparrow Sep 10, 2021, 7:43 PM

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Thanks @torpid tapir , the challenge is as follows. I would like to give a customer 2 months free and I don't know in advance if they are going to choose to sign up for the 1 month, 3 month or 1 year subscription so a blanket 66% off won't work.

torpid tapir Sep 10, 2021, 7:47 PM

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Would something like this work for you
You have three coupons (one for each plan length) with each coupon setting applies_to (see https://stripe.com/docs/api/coupons/create#create_coupon-applies_to) so that it's only applicable for one particular plan.

Coupon A would be duration: repeating, duration_in_months: 2, 100% off for the 1 month price
Coupon B would be 66% off, duration: once for the 3 month price
Coupon C would be 16% off, duration: once for the 1 year price

shy sparrow Sep 10, 2021, 7:50 PM

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I currently have a single product with 3 prices. Would this require 3 different products? Additionally could each coupon have the same promotion code?

torpid tapir Sep 10, 2021, 8:08 PM

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Yeah, my suggestion would need 3 different products (which may not be ideal for your integration). And each would have to have a different coupon code

shy sparrow Sep 10, 2021, 8:30 PM

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@torpid tapir - I'll see if the 3 products affects our integration at all but it should work. From the docs on promotion Codes I can see tham the code is The customer-facing code. Regardless of case, this code must be unique across all active promotion codes for each customer. It does not say the code must be uniq across all products. If it is just limitted to uniq per customer I could use the same code 2MONTHFREE across coupon A, B and C each with a different product and discount.

torpid tapir Sep 10, 2021, 8:35 PM

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I think that part of the docs may be a bit misleading - what it means is that all currently active promotion codes must be unique. Just to double check I tried to create a new promotion code w/ the same code as an already active one and I get an error

shy sparrow Sep 10, 2021, 8:40 PM

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OK - I will work on a few things on my end and see what I can come up with. Thank you for the help.

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