#crehbichler-subscriptions
hollow solar
hi there! another question to better understand your use case : is the period before the subscription period actually starts always going to be a month later? Or could it be variable?
zenith silo
it could be variable, we also have cases where it would be 05/15 or even 06/10
hollow solar
hmmm, so it's possible that you have a daily subscription, but you start the period only a month later correct?
how about pausing payment collection on subscriptions? https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/pause#collect-payment-later
zenith silo
for now we only have yearly subscriptions, where we want to collect the payment immediately from the customer. only thing is that the first period could be 12 months x days or even 13 months x days, because we have some time at the beginning where our offer is limited, so we want to give our customers an extended first period
(but still, they already signed a contract with us for a year, so it's not trialing; that's why we want to collect the payment immediately)
hollow solar
hmmm, gimme a few minutes to think about this
honestly, this isn't a scenario which Stripe handles very well at this moment. I think there's several options here :
- Make use of Subscription schedules : Phase 1 : charge them the full price upfront with
phases.proration_behavior=none, Phase 2 : set it to a trial phase for the full period
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules
- Manually handle the logic in your own application e.g. you could create the subscription for on one year first and collect the full amount, when you reach the period date, update the billing cycle and set
proration_behavior=none, you should also delete any invoice items related to updating the billing cycle
these are what comes to mind right now