matty-schedule-past | Stripe Developers | Page 1

royal burrow Jan 21, 2022, 11:08 PM

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You don't need schedules for that. You can use https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-backdate_start_date

frozen ocean Jan 21, 2022, 11:09 PM

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The issue I was seeing with that is "If set, the first invoice will contain a proration for the timespan between the start date and the current time. " We would want to charge them for the full amount.

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We have products that ship out vs. providing a pro-ratable service. When we charge the customer, it needs to be for the full amount each time.

royal burrow Jan 21, 2022, 11:16 PM

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use backdate_start_date and billing_cycle_anchor

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that should do what you want I think

frozen ocean Jan 21, 2022, 11:27 PM

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Thanks. We'll try that out. We've been staying away from the subscription endpoint because the schedule has the ability to set the number of iterations in the phases vs. calculating the dates. I assume the back_start_date param isn't available to schedule subscriptions?

royal burrow Jan 21, 2022, 11:30 PM

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we do have https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-start_date that might meet your needs. I assumed you were using schedule just for that reason but if you are already on schedules then using that parameter should be what you're after

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let me try it quickly on my end

frozen ocean Jan 21, 2022, 11:31 PM

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I created this one with those options... still appears to offset the next invoice based on the date it's setup. sub_1KKWYKBBamLIIR3ZxrTzOHTW

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royal burrow Jan 21, 2022, 11:32 PM

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ack let me try for a sec on my end, I don't use this API as much as the others :p

frozen ocean Jan 21, 2022, 11:32 PM

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🙂

royal burrow Jan 21, 2022, 11:36 PM

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what even lol

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I create a schedule today that starts on January 15 2022. And I get a schedule whose phase is Jan 15 - Feb 15 but the corresponding Subscription is on Jan 22 - Feb 22.
Let me dig into this further

frozen ocean Jan 21, 2022, 11:40 PM

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OK. I tried to pass the following to the phase:

start_date
billing_cycle_anchor
proration_behavior

Exception: Received unknown parameter: phases[0][start_date] If I remove start_date from the params, the schedule works, but the outcome is the same as I mentioned above.

royal burrow Jan 21, 2022, 11:41 PM

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yeah you can't set start date on the first phase

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I think it boils down to "you can't backdate schedules even though it seems you can" but still digging into it

frozen ocean Jan 21, 2022, 11:41 PM

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Ah..

royal burrow Jan 21, 2022, 11:53 PM

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yeah unfortunately this is impossible

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so I think you're going to have to create a Subscription first with backdate_start_date + billing_cycle_anchor and then turn it into a schedule. But that's not great

frozen ocean Jan 22, 2022, 12:01 AM

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OK. That makes sense.

royal burrow Jan 22, 2022, 12:04 AM

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I did file a bug report as I think start_date should do what you wanted it to but it's clearly not compatible yet 😦

frozen ocean Jan 22, 2022, 12:04 AM

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Thank you for that! I appreciate the help. Have a great weekend.

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