#Sebastian Cortabarria - pricing model
rain field
Good question. So as I understand it, you want your users to pay for these sessions as they happen instead of all upfront, and you want to schedule taking these payments as best you can through a subscription?
Can you tell me a bit more about how you would like this to work ideally? What would you like to happen when a user upgrades or downgrade?
balmy folio
Reading a bit deeper I think there might not be a way for the automatic proration from Stripe to apply to what we want. I think it might just be better to disable prorations altogether and manage a credit independently.
Ideally I would want to model each session using Stripe, with sessions being cheaper they higher you go on tier of the subscriptions. But we need to keep a flat rate for each plan too, it can not be metered billing.
rain field
I am still thinking on this. Just to make sure I have things straight, does this all sound correct?
- Your users subscribe to x sessions per period
- You want discounted pricing as customers pay for more sessions
- When a customer upgrades, I am guessing you want to charge the difference between 2 and 4 sessions, not prorated to the time in the cycle?
Is there a reason you are doing separate products instead of tiered pricing like here? https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#tiered-pricing
balmy folio
Well tiered pricing does fit quite well. Would we still need to manage upgrades/downgrades separately?? How would prorations work in this case?
rain field
Good question. They might still have to be managed separately. I will check in to how prorations would work there.
I need to check but I think if you just turn proration off that should either charge your user the difference or not charge them and let them be billed at the lower rate going forward.