romercox-subscriptions | Stripe Developers | Page 1

plucky notch Jun 28, 2022, 3:40 AM

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hi there! why do you need to use a subscription trial twice or more?

hollow patio Jun 28, 2022, 3:42 AM

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I do not haha so I just want to make sure a CX won't be able to do that 😄

plucky notch Jun 28, 2022, 3:43 AM

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what's a CX?

hollow patio Jun 28, 2022, 3:43 AM

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sorry a Customer

plucky notch Jun 28, 2022, 3:45 AM

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isn't creating/updating a subscription under the control of your application?

hollow patio Jun 28, 2022, 3:46 AM

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it is, but I wanted to know if Stripe would prevent the user from creating another plan and use the same trial period again after the end

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so I will do that on my end.

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If I change the trial_end unix timestamp to "now", will my setupintent still work?

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cuz I just had to rewrite my application to add the trial_end functionality, since I was collecting a payment_intent before

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so I've updated to setup intent instead

plucky notch Jun 28, 2022, 3:50 AM

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can you give an example of a user creating another plan and using the same trial period again? Based off what you just said alone, i would say no, Stripe doesn't prevent this. But i would need a specific example to be sure

hollow patio Jun 28, 2022, 3:52 AM

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Let's say you create a subscription, and will be using the service provided for the duration of that trial. ( so far, so good ).

After the trial expires, we will try to collect the payment, three attempts.
After that, the subscription will be canceled, on the Stripe side and under my application side, so now, the CX does not have an active subscription attached to it.

Cx could go back to our site after the cancelation, and "buy" the same plan again, and enjoy the free trial again.

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I'm building the solution on my end already so don't worry about it

plucky notch Jun 28, 2022, 3:54 AM

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yes, it's possible. you'll need to do the validation logic on your application to prevent this

hollow patio Jun 28, 2022, 3:55 AM

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Cool, thank you, sir!

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another question I have

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in this case, to not give the user another trial_period, I'd have to update my subscription creation.

Will setup_payment still work for this scenario? Or I'd have to change it to payment_intent again?

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Since I wont be passing the trial_period anymore, OR, I could try doing something like "now" for the trial_end period

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what would you suggest?

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I will use:

    'trial_end' => 'now',
])```

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I think this should charge the CX right away, right?

plucky notch Jun 28, 2022, 3:59 AM

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if you're not giving a trial period, then don't include the trial_end parameter. You would need to use the payment intent to pay

hollow patio Jun 28, 2022, 4:00 AM

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Yeah, that would require another huge change in my code 😦

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