Carlos-Mascarenhas-sub-charge-later | Stripe Developers | Page 1

wet vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:38 PM

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Hi there! You would want to use a trial period for the Subscription but still collect card details up front.

rare vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:39 PM

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no

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Didn't want to offer trial period

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I want to create a subscription, however, billing on a specific day

wet vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:42 PM

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Okay in that case you can use a $0 price for the initial invoice and then you can either update the Subscription to a $x price on the day you want to charge (and force the creation of the new invoice on that day if the new prices has the same billing_period) or you can use a Subscription Schedule with two phases where the first phase is the $0 price and then the second phase is the $x price

rare vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:45 PM

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What's the best way to make this automated via code?

wet vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:46 PM

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I would recommend creating a Subscription Schedule. Then you just create it and don't have to handle sending an update in the future.

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Information on the Subscription Schedule API can be found here: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules

rare vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:50 PM

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what is iterations?

wet vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:51 PM

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That is how many times the phase will recur before moving to the next phase

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-iterations

rare vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:52 PM

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In this code it will create the signature and assign the price 12 times?

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Are you going to create 12 signatures for the client?

wet vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:54 PM

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No, that means that your price will be charged 12 times

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So if it is monthly then it will run for 12 months

rare vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:55 PM

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After charging 12 times will he cancel the subscription?

wet vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:57 PM

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No in this case the Subscription Schedule will be released and the Subscription will continue since you have end_behavior: release

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Honestly the easier way to handle this is to just use a trial

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Why are you against a trial?

rare vale Mar 17, 2022, 9:59 PM

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I want to use the functions correctly. Trial period as much as it helps me, it was created for another purpose. I liked the schedule I will use

wet vale Mar 17, 2022, 10:00 PM

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Okay... but really this is exactly what a trial was designed for so I disagree that it was created for another purpose!

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The other option is to just collect card details and wait to create the subscription in the future. You can use a Subscription Schedule to do that as well.

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It honestly might be simpler if you don't mind not having an active Subscription during the period of time between when you collect card details and then create the Subscription.

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We talk about how to do that here: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#start-subscription-future

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