#ad_agilis-subscriptions
spring moss
Yes.
ex: If a customer bought a 1 month subscription on 15th april and then want to pause their membership from 20th April to 30th April, their next bill/invoice should be charged on 25th May instead of 15th May
misty pumice
So you can pause a subscription with https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/pause
But that won't change the billing cycle.
However if you add a free trial to the subscription, when the trial end, the billing cycle will be changed. As explained here https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/billing-cycle#changing So I guess you could use that instead?
spring moss
I tried using
Stripe::Subscription.update(membership.identifier, { trial_end: DateTime.new(2022, 4, 25).to_i, proration_behavior: 'none' })
But this just caused the membership to be invoiced immediately when the trial period ended. Could it be because of the proration_behavior?
misty pumice
Yes that's expected, the new billing period will start as soon as the free trial end. That's no what you want?
spring moss
No. As the customer has already bought the subscription for a month, can't there be any way to extend it by 10 days?
and sorry the above code would have been
Stripe::Subscription.update(membership.identifier, { trial_end: DateTime.new(2022, 4, 30).to_i, proration_behavior: 'none' })
executed on 20th April, so that the subscription is given a 10 day trial period?
jolly rampart
Hi there 👋 jumping in as my teammate needed to step away. Please bear with me a moment while I get caught up on the context here.
So this is a tricky scenario with our subscriptions. I think what you're going to want to do, is add a trial that reaches to the end of the billing period with the extension, so in the scenario you described above that would be May 25th.
When trials end on a subscription, a new billing period begins immediately, there is no way to add a trial in the middle of a period.
spring moss
Ok Thanks Toby
jolly rampart
Any time! Please let us know if that doesn't seem to fit the scenario that you're trying to build though.
spring moss
Sure