Jenya - Subscription Creation

[dark remnant]

Hello. Let's chat in this thread

Give me just a moment to catch up

So that api call looks like it's a subscription update call

You say you're creating a subscription like that?

I think you may have just shared the wrong code snippet

[wind bison]

Sorry, not creating subscription

When upgrading

I have existing subscription and updating the items

[dark remnant]

Ah got it

Can you share a request ID for the update call where you aren't seeing an invoice being created?

[wind bison]

It is being created

Just auto paid

I need to somehow retrieve it and redirect the user to it

But the update doesn't return it

[dark remnant]

I think for your use-case, you would want default_incomplete for the payment behavior: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-payment_behavior.

[wind bison]

@dark remnant That upgrades automatically

Invoice isn't auto paid which is good

But user get's upgraded before invoice is even paid

[dark remnant]

I see. You could configure your account settings to cancel the subscription, though, if the invoice is past_due for a certain period of time: https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/automatic

[wind bison]

I need it to not be enabled until paid

That's what the pending_until_complete was doing

Maybe I can just get the invoice and redirect user to it?

Or remove the payment method, so that it doesn't auto charge

[dark remnant]

Can you send your whole request?

What are all the parameters you're passing in?

Also, can you try using send_invoice for this parameter? https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-collection_method

[wind bison]

It's just two items below that

const sub = await stripe.subscriptions.update(subscriptions.data[0].id, {
                        payment_behavior: 'pending_if_incomplete',
                        proration_behavior: 'always_invoice',
                        items: [
                            {
                                id: subscriptions.data[0].items.data[0].id,
                                price: priceIds[0].price,
                                quantity: priceIds[0].quantity
                            },
                            {
                                id: subscriptions.data[0].items.data[1].id,
                                price: priceIds[1].price,
                                quantity: priceIds[1].quantity
                            }
                        ]
                    });

[smoky maple]

catching up here give me a sec.

Just to word the question back - you want to upgrade the user but wait for it to be paid in full? is that right?

why do you want to bring the customer back on session though, you already have their cards attached to the customer so they don't need to come back online

[wind bison]

Yeah

Maybe they want to use another card or something

Like they click a button to upgrade

And it needs to redirect to some sort of payment page you know

I do that for initially buying a plan

But from what I've seen I can't use checkout session for upgrading, only creating new subscription