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gray igloo Feb 28, 2022, 6:00 PM

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eternal plover Feb 28, 2022, 6:06 PM

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not sure I understand, can you detail what you mean by

How can I trigger a new payment, for a subscription before the final of the period?

north lantern Feb 28, 2022, 6:50 PM

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Hello hmunoz
clients subscribe via stripe payment portal, so a subscrption is created, the subscription covers 1 year to make use od a number of api calls in our system.
But some clients expend those api calls before the end of the year.
So how should I proceed to make a new charge for such clients?

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@eternal plover

grave verge Feb 28, 2022, 6:55 PM

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Hey monobot! So you're saying you allow say 1000 API calls for $100 a year and then if someone makes more calls than that you want to charge them extra?

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Usually your business model relies on metered billing so you might want to read https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#usage-based-pricing

north lantern Feb 28, 2022, 7:02 PM

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yes, but its more like a prepayment of x calls that you have a year to make use, then a new prepayment of X more calls with a new year to use them

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not exactly like the case in the docs

grave verge Feb 28, 2022, 7:03 PM

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I see so if I pay for a year and then I use all my calls you want me to "repay" for an extra year?

north lantern Feb 28, 2022, 7:04 PM

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you pay for a number of calls and you have a year to use them

grave verge Feb 28, 2022, 7:05 PM

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In that case you want to set billing_cycle_anchor: 'now' to reset the yearly billing cycle immediately and charge for a whole year: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-billing_cycle_anchor
You also want to disable proration since you don't want to give them any credit back for what they paid before (since they used it all) so you pass proration_behavior: 'none' https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-proration_behavior

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