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naive verge Oct 26, 2021, 2:19 PM

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hello, can you share the sub ID and I can have a look

vocal garnet Oct 26, 2021, 2:20 PM

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sub_1Jn4IrBFqTKIU0a7zA1rr7bQ

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Some of the code I was using

nocturne zinc Oct 26, 2021, 3:36 PM

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Sorry for the delay! Quick question for you - is your goal here to create subscriptions immediately but just have them anchored to a specific date, or do you want to create subscriptions that start at a later date/have future changes scheduled for them?

vocal garnet Oct 26, 2021, 4:37 PM

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Doing it in the future seemed to not have any issues @nocturne zinc . We just were looking at the scenario of like, someone signs up Oct 15 (this is metered usage btw), so we want to basically make that first period Oct 1 - Oct 31, and do monthly going forward

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I got this to work by creating a subscription and then converting it to a schedule, but needed a few different phases and didn't realize if there was a simpler way

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When using the regular create subscription api, we're able to anchor the billing fine, I was just trying to think of ways to convert existing subscriptions

nocturne zinc Oct 26, 2021, 4:52 PM

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Just to make sure I have this straight:

In the scenario where someone signs up on Oct 15 and the first period is Oct 1 - Oct 31, you currently do this with just the plain subscriptions API and billing cycle anchor
Your remaining issue is how to manage this for subscriptions that have already been created in the past, and you now want to correct them

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Do I have this right?

vocal garnet Oct 26, 2021, 5:07 PM

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Yes

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They have subs being created through checkout and stuff where they're not controlling the dates

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Again, I think I have this working with the schedule conversion but not sure why I needed three phases

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Although I just made this update and it seems to work:

nocturne zinc Oct 26, 2021, 5:15 PM

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Yeah I misinterpreted your initial ask - I thought you were having trouble with creating new subscriptions with a billing cycle anchor. With existing subscriptions the approach your using (schedules) is fine, but you can definitely do it with 2 phases instead of 3. Based on your screenshots it looks like you've already figured it out though 🙂

vocal garnet Oct 26, 2021, 5:17 PM

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Yeah I guess I kinda did, just wanted to really understand it. I'm unsure why it wouldn't just work with the first phase?

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Cant you just say like 'end this phase at the end of the month and release'

nocturne zinc Oct 26, 2021, 5:18 PM

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The missing piece with that is the the billing cycle anchor - you can only reset the billing cycle anchor on a subscription schedule by setting billing_cycle_anchor: phase_start, which you would need to do on the second phase

vocal garnet Oct 26, 2021, 5:19 PM

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Gotcha, and I can't just put that in the default settings

nocturne zinc Oct 26, 2021, 5:19 PM

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Correct

vocal garnet Oct 26, 2021, 5:19 PM

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Thanks! Learn something new every day

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And the difference between create prorations vs none is? They get charged Nov 1 vs immediately or something?

nocturne zinc Oct 26, 2021, 5:24 PM

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none will not create any prorations that may happen for an update, create_prorations will create the prorations and only invoice them immediately when required (otherwise they'll just be rolled in to the next schedule invoice), and always_invoice will immediately invoice the prorations

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