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cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 12:33 AM

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open viper Oct 6, 2021, 12:33 AM

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Hello again Koopajah

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 12:33 AM

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@open viper have you looked at https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing ?

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it covers many cases. We don't support "fast forwarding time" yet (working on it!) but you basically simulate a renewal by having a subscription's period end soon either via trial_end or billing_cycle_anchor set to a few minutes in the future

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and then you wait for renewal

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 12:34 AM

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Ah, so read more of the manual Brett 🤦‍♂️

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 12:35 AM

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haha I share that link so often I have it bookmarked

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we are working on a Test mode feature that lets you "fast forward time" which would let you see renewals the year after and the year after so that will make discoverability a lot easier

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 12:37 AM

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Okay, I just read the definition of the billing cycle anchor. I can update this to force a new billing cycle no now

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Does, current_period_end have any affect on this? Can it be updated, or simply focus on the billing_cycle_anchor?

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 12:40 AM

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you can't touch current_period_end, you'll see in https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update it's not a parameter. So only billing_cycle_anchor

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but you don't want to set it to now really, that's the wrong approach

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you want to create a subscription with billing_cycle_anchor set to a timestamp a few minutes in the future. And then you wait for the subscription to renew

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 12:40 AM

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Yeah, you said a few minutes in the future

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 12:41 AM

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setting bca on update only supports the value now and it changes the billing cycle synchronously and so it doesn't mirror a normal renewal behaviour

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 12:41 AM

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I see, so a new subscription with a short billing_cycle_anchor. The term of the subscription, I assume, is irrelevant then

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 12:51 AM

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yep

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 12:54 AM

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I am using the cli to create a subscription, what is the items it asks for?

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 12:56 AM

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can I say "did you read docs?" :p

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Subscriptions can have multiple prices, and so it comes in items which is an array of all the Price you associate with a subscription

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-items (and then mentioned on every doc about Billing since that's how you create a Subscription)

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 1:03 AM

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success.

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I have so many windows and tabs open now!

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 1:04 AM

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hahaha

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 1:04 AM

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How many minutes in the future do you recommend?

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 1:04 AM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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a couple to start and then iterate based on what happens

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 1:05 AM

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hahahaha

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okay.

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Thanks again. I appreciate you.

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 1:21 AM

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happy to help 🙂

open viper Oct 6, 2021, 1:24 AM

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What does this mean where invoices take an hour to finalize?

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It seems the invoice wont get auto-paid until after this time

cloud sparrow Oct 6, 2021, 1:28 AM

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yep that's how billing works https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#subscription-lifecycle

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new invoices are automatically created but not paid immediately

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you can explicitly finalize and/or pay those invoices via the API

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