hassamsaeed-trialing

[tough axle]

Hey there!

Can you elaborate on your Q please?

You can see a trial value on a Price object, but that's to work with subscriptions directly

[vocal jasper]

Yes i see a trial on both Price and Subscription

Lets suppose i created a plan with the trial period of 30 days and subscribe it but if i need to change trial days from 30 to 7 days. Is it possible? If yes then how?

[tough axle]

On the resulting subscription?

you'd update the trial_end parameter on the Subscription object: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-trial_end

[vocal jasper]

Yes on the resulting subcription. So you are saying if i subscribe to ABC plan with default trial of 30 days but i can change it to any value by simple updating the trial of a subscription. It will only effect to a particular subscription. Right?

[tough axle]

Yep, that's right

Generally we don't recommend inheriting trial periods from Price/Plan objects, and instead set the trial period when creating the subscription

[vocal jasper]

But i need a plan which has a default 30 days trial but i need to change it for specific subscription but not for all. So what is the good approach?

So i create price which has 30 days trial period but when i create subscription i can change trial days

[tough axle]

If you want to inherit the trial period from the Price/Plan, you need to pass trial_from_plan when creating the sub: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-trial_from_plan

So in the case of the subscription where you want a shorter trial, you'd omit that parameter and instead just use trial_period_days: 7: https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-trial_period_days

[vocal jasper]

Thanks

[tough axle]

np!

[vocal jasper]

In the case of update which parameter i need to pass in update subscription method?

[tough axle]

What do you need to update?

You'd set those parameters when creating the subscription. Shouldn't be necessary to update if you're doing it correctly

[vocal jasper]

I think we have some misunderstading

Let me take an example again if you dont mind

I create a price ABC which has 30 days trial. Now i create a subscription by choosing price ABC. By choosing ABC my subscription also has 30 days trial.

After creating a subscription i want to change subscription trial from 30 days to 40 days. Now what should i do?

Hope it makes sense for you

[tough axle]

What's the reason for extending the trial?

Is that not something that you would prefer to do instead when creating the subscription?

[vocal jasper]

Yes, but after subscription creation if a customer wants a trial more than 30 days then?

[tough axle]

Ok, then as per my original answer you'd call the update endpoint

My other answer was if you wanted to offer a different trial period to the default from creation

[vocal jasper]

Yes

Thanks

[tough axle]

np!