#gutiguy - Subscription Billing
oak basin
Hi 👋
So you're looking for the date the invoice being sent vs the billing period, correct?
oak basin
Right, in the chase of charge_automatically
Unfortunately we do not have that functionality currently.
The only options involve doing things like shifting the Stripe billing period and maintaining your own billing period that you report to the user. However the complexity added is not worth it IMHO
north frigate
Got it, thanks for the response.
Another question, say I want to bill them at the 1st, setting the billing anchor to the epoch of the 1st of the next month would usually work, unless the customer tries to subscribe at the 1st of the month, and then I get a stripe error where it complains that the anchor can't be set to a period outside its natural cycle, I'm assuming it's because I'm trying to set the billing period to just outside a monthly interval, is there a way to circumvent that such that a customer starting the subscription on the 1st of the current month at 1:00pm will be billed on the 1st of next month at say 3:00pm ?
It's kind of related
It boils down to the fact I always want to charge customers at the 1st of next month, even if they are subscribing at the 1st of the current month (don't want to charge them the same day)
oak basin
Okay yeah that is referred to as "billing in arrears" and presently it is only supported for metered billing. It is a common feature request and something I know is being actively considered.
north frigate
So it's currently in development?
oak basin
I can't say exactly where it is in the process but I can confirm it's a feature under review.