Samwise-subscriptions | Stripe Developers | Page 1

dense pasture Mar 1, 2022, 9:34 AM

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Hi! Can you clarify your question? What exactly are you trying to achieve?

meager snow Mar 1, 2022, 9:35 AM

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sure - I have a subscriptions that renew, and I want to show when the exact next billing date / time is to the client of the subscription after a renewal.
E.g Your plan renews on 30th March at 9pm

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But I don't want to do this lookup on the fly

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I want to store this value after the subscription renews, just not sure when is the earliest I can fetch the new billing date / time

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as I will be replacing the old value in my subscription db row

dense pasture Mar 1, 2022, 9:37 AM

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Got it! Please give me a few minutes to run some tests.

meager snow Mar 1, 2022, 9:38 AM

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ta

dense pasture Mar 1, 2022, 9:46 AM

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Actually this is covered in our documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks#tracking

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So we recommend listening to the webhook event invoice.paid to udpate the current_period_end.

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Note that the invoice.paid event will contain an invoice object that has a subscription field with the corresponding Subscription ID.

meager snow Mar 1, 2022, 9:58 AM

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So if I am hearing you right - btw (I am currently using 'invoice.payment_succeeded' event )

As soon as I receive that webhook, if I lookup the subscription ( based on the subscription field in that object ) it will have already renewed and the current_period_end will be the next billing date / time ?

dense pasture Mar 1, 2022, 10:02 AM

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Yes, exactly!

meager snow Mar 1, 2022, 10:03 AM

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kk cool, will test it locally. That guide is a little ambiguous

Your webhook endpoint updates the customer’s current_period_end timestamp in your database to the appropriate date in the future (plus a day or two for leeway).
By appropriate day in the future, you would still need to look up this 'current_period_end' field on the subscription ( since months like feb are short etc )

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Thanks for your help.

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