Emily - Subscription | Stripe Developers | Page 1

winter kindle Jun 27, 2022, 3:46 PM

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Hi 👋

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Could you describe how you see the relationship between the free and paid subscriptions? Is this a trial period or unlimited?

shy meadow Jun 27, 2022, 3:51 PM

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hi! anyone interacting with stripe would have access to the same information (paid stripe or free use stripe). they are essentially the same, but some users should not have to give a credit card...

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some users will go a traditional route of entering a credit card and coupon code for timed free trial. we will require them to give credit card at signup so when they're trial expires, they start paying

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our true "free users" will not interact with stripe at all

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does that make sense?

winter kindle Jun 27, 2022, 3:55 PM

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Okay so Stripe's objects are designed around collecting funds so in the use case you describe I think the best approach would be to maintain your own records of the "Free" subscription and use that data to create a Stripe subscription if/when you convert them to paid users. Does that make sense for your use case?

shy meadow Jun 27, 2022, 3:55 PM

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it might!

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want to confirm: there is not currently a workaround within stripe to avoid adding in a credit card upfront

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it's ok if the answer is yes, just need to let my team know

winter kindle Jun 27, 2022, 3:59 PM

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I mean you can but the Subscription object will get set to "past due" and eventually canceled. So the best bet is to not use Stripe records until you are ready to collect payments.

shy meadow Jun 27, 2022, 4:06 PM

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thank you. this has been super helpful

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