Andreas-subscription trial period | Stripe Developers | Page 1

plain dagger Apr 28, 2022, 8:49 AM

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Hi @heady sierra, AFAIK I'm afraid this is not impossible but please hold while I will try to find if there is a way

plain dagger Apr 28, 2022, 9:09 AM

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ok so basically are you using checkout or are you creating the subscription yourself?

heady sierra Apr 28, 2022, 9:10 AM

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ATM we're creating it ourselves

plain dagger Apr 28, 2022, 9:10 AM

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Is there any way to achieve this using Stripe Customer Portal
sorry didn't see that

heady sierra Apr 28, 2022, 9:19 AM

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One thing I've tried is to cancel the subscription at the end of the subscription so that you are prompted to renew, but I didn't see the upgrade option in the Portal anymore

plain dagger Apr 28, 2022, 9:19 AM

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So I have a way around this

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You can basically create a subscription without any payment method with a trial_period_ends

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and then you can ask your user to go to the Customer Portal before the trial ends to update the subscription and Update their Payment Methods

heady sierra Apr 28, 2022, 9:48 AM

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What happens once the trial period has ended? Which status does the subscription have then?

rocky burrow Apr 28, 2022, 9:56 AM

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Hey, taking over here!

rocky burrow Apr 28, 2022, 9:57 AM

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heady sierra What happens once the trial period has ended? Which status does the subscription...

It depends really. The subscription wouldn't stop/end, it'd likely continue into a new billing cycle. The status would depend on whether there was a payment method attached to facilitate the invoice payment

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See: https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/overview#subscription-lifecycle

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