Rajshree - upgrade and downgrade subscription | Stripe Developers | Page 1

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:12 PM

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Hello, that definitely may be possible depending on your setup. Can you tell me a bit more about how you are updating these subscriptions now? Are you updating them directly with the API or are you using the Stripe hosted Customer Portal?

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:17 PM

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using API

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:20 PM

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Awesome. That should be pretty easy to do as long as your code knows which is an upgrade and which is a downgrade.

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You can set proration_behavior to none for downgrades and create_prorations or always_invoice for upgrades https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-proration_behavior

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mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:22 PM

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what happens for double downgrades or double upgrades so we handle that logic at our end too?

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UPGRADE -

        user['stripe_payment_subscription_id'],
              items=[
            {'id': current_sub['items']['data'][0].id, 'price': new_price},
              ],
        proration_behavior='always_invoice',
        billing_cycle_anchor='now'
    )```

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DOWNGRADE

    upd_sub = stripe.Subscription.modify(
        user['stripe_payment_subscription_id'],
        items=[
            {'id': current_sub['items']['data'][0].id, 'price': new_price},
        ],
        proration_behavior='none',
        billing_cycle_anchor='unchanged'
    )```

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downgrade code above doesnt work as expected. we expect that in downgrade it should start a new future subscription and keep the current subscription until next payment date.

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:30 PM

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I am not sure I understand what is going wrong in the downgrade situation. Can you explain the behavior that you are seeing there?

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:30 PM

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its currently overriding the current subscription

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:33 PM

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As in the actual plan or price that is on the subscription?

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:33 PM

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price on the subscription

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:36 PM

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Gotcha. To delay when that happens in our API you will can use a subscription schedule https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#downgrading-subscriptions

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Alternatively, your system doesn't necessarily have to rely what is in the Stripe API. If it is possible, you may find it easier to change the price on the Stripe side but wait to change what product you are giving your user on your side

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:42 PM

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Thank you, One more question. How can we get all the future price setup for a customer ?

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:43 PM

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As in how do you check if you have already set up a subscription schedule? Or something else?

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:53 PM

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Nevermind, how does Subscription differ from Subscription Schedule?

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are they interchangeable or completely different objects

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:55 PM

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A Subscription Schedule manages a Subscription. They are completely different objects

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You can create a schedule off of your existing subscription for your downgrade, but updates after that might get a bit more complex. https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/subscription-schedules/use-cases#existing-subscription

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:56 PM

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so subscription schedule can be used instead of subscriptions?

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If we plan to use only subscription schedule for a given product, that would be sufficient for all the payments?

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 7:57 PM

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They are connected to a Subscription object. So using a schedule is using both.

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Not sure what you mean there, can you explain?

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 7:58 PM

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Is subscription schedule superset of subscription ?

snow yew Apr 22, 2022, 8:02 PM

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No, a subscription schedule is an object that updates a subscription based on the schedule's configuration

mortal relic Apr 22, 2022, 8:42 PM

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Thanks Pompey 👍

lucid birch Apr 29, 2022, 9:17 PM

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@mortal relic is this your thread from before?

mortal relic Apr 29, 2022, 9:18 PM

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Thanks

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So we want to verify the user card without charging them

lucid birch Apr 29, 2022, 9:21 PM

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Gotcha. https://stripe.com/docs/payments/save-and-reuse is our guide to do this

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You would use a SetupIntent to gather card details and validate the card

mortal relic Apr 29, 2022, 9:30 PM

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How about if we setup a $0 recurring subdcription

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Would stripe charge us to maintain the $0 payments

lucid birch Apr 29, 2022, 9:32 PM

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Okay so if you create a $0 subscription we will actually automatically create a setup_intent that you can use to collect the PaymentMethod

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/object#subscription_object-pending_setup_intent

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And no, we don't charge a fee on $0 payments

mortal relic Apr 29, 2022, 9:34 PM

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Thank you @lucid birch !

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