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dull surge Nov 23, 2021, 1:40 AM

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dull surge Nov 23, 2021, 2:27 AM

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Hi there,

If this is the phase you are referring to https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/object#subscription_schedule_object-phases, this is the information that defines how the Subscription will behave within a period of time.

Before I continue to answer your other questions, I was wondering if you could share your business use case for us to advise you better please?

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hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 2:28 AM

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Thank you for your reply. My use case is i have to an amount collect in 10 installments. This amount is not divided equally but falls on same day of the month

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Please ignore the first installment in this. It is collected as down payment.

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 4:08 AM

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@hazy depot to answer your second question :
for your particular use case, the customer will be charged automatically at the beginning of each billing interval.
You may want to refer to this guide for a more detailed explanation on how to use subscription schedules for your use case : https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#installment-plans

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for your situation though, since you have different amounts, you would probably need to set different phases.

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 4:15 AM

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Awesome. I did that. Can you please keep this chat unarchived. However I have few questions, please allow me to grab the request id

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 4:17 AM

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sure, i'll be here for now, but the thread will be automatically archived if there's no activity after a period of time

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 5:10 AM

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Please find this request id, I'm having trouble here only 9 phases are being created

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 5:15 AM

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@hazy depot you don't need 9 phases. If you're charging $35.5 x 9 (months), what you would do is to use a Price which has $35.5 / month and define the below phase

      {
        items: [
          {
            price: 'price_...',
            quantity: 1,
          },
        ],
        iterations: 9,
      },
    ],

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 5:17 AM

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Sure, but I would be needing to make 10 iterations, the last iterations will have a different price

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 5:18 AM

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you would need 2 phases then

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the first phase would be for $35.5/month (9 iterations), and the last one would be for $35.32/month. (1 iteration)

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 5:19 AM

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Okay, I will try to do this and get back thank you!

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 5:58 AM

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and what would be the billing cycle anchor

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I am currently using automatic will that be fine

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 6:18 AM

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automatic should be fine, unless you have specific requirements

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 7:57 AM

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how do i test subscription schedules? 😮 there are 9 iterations, does that mean there will be debit each month for 9 months and then the last one there will be a price update

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 8:03 AM

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it depends on how long you're willing to wait for the testing - one option is to do a $35.5/day Price to simulate what you would see

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i would stick to doing 2 phases, and 1 iteration for each phase

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 8:05 AM

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for this i have added two phases, one with 9 iterations and other with an end date

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 8:08 AM

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there isn't a way to speed up testing for a subscription schedule

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that's why i would suggest testing with a shorter billing interval like daily just so you understand how it works

hazy depot Nov 23, 2021, 8:12 AM

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Okay

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Our customer requirement is as such that it might make changes to price every month. So there is no other way to acheive this than using multiple phases

stark prairie Nov 23, 2021, 8:38 AM

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If your customer will pay a different price every month, i think it would be easier for you to simply invoice a customer instead and keep track of the remaining amount that the customer needs to pay on your own server

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it really depends on what is the likelihood that your customer will pay a different price every month

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