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frail fiber Jan 20, 2022, 11:04 PM

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Hello! Let me read through you wrote carefully

steep hound Jan 20, 2022, 11:04 PM

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Sure! Sorry for the wall of text 😄

frail fiber Jan 20, 2022, 11:04 PM

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totally fine 🙂

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when the new Subscription is created, Stripe immediately creates & pays an invoice for the year that it thinks the user just bought
Yes there is. One easy way is to put them on a trial period until their next payment date via trial_end.
Another one is to use billing_cycle_anchor to explicitly anchor the subscription to that next payment date and pass proration_behavior: 'none' to avoid any proration/partial amount owed

steep hound Jan 20, 2022, 11:07 PM

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ah, excellent! I'd seen the billing_cycle_anchor in the docs, but it wasn't clear to me that that's how it works. Sounds perfect!

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Out of curiosity, there is also a backdate_start_date, would setting that to "sometime earlier than now" and setting proration to none also serve the same purpose?

steep hound Jan 20, 2022, 11:24 PM

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Alright, tested this out, billing_cycle_anchor works perfectly. Thank you very much for the quick response!

frail fiber Jan 20, 2022, 11:29 PM

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yeah backdate_start_date works when you start today a subscription that really started on Jan 1st and will renew on Feb 1st

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