#Visser-sub-schedules
rain basalt
heya @fierce apex, i'm not sure that I understand what you mean by getting paid immediately like a normal subscription, can you explain more on this?
fierce apex
yeah thank you! i try to explain. Now customers can subscribe to a normal subscription 40$ monthly, i setup the subscription through the API, and it generate automatically a payment intent with a client secret key to provide at the checkout, that is a self made page with a stripe form, and they pay immediately and the subscription starts. When I try to create a schedule instead, the schedule doesn't create a payment intent (if I'm not wrong), so how can I get paid immediately? i would like to create the schedule and be paid in that moment with my checkout page. Then, after phase 1, customer should be charged automatically.
rain basalt
ah okay, so a workaround which I can think of is to create and collect payment for the first subscription. Then create a subscription schedule from the existing subscription instead : https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#existing-subscription