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uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 9:13 PM

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That's a good question. let me check

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 9:14 PM

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your api leads me to believe not 😅

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 9:18 PM

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-end_behavior

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I think that's the field you're looking for

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 9:19 PM

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no, unfortunately that will only release at the end of the last phase

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i was hoping for the beginning of the last phase

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 9:19 PM

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Ah, no. There isn't a way to do that unfortunately

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 9:20 PM

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can i put a request in? schedules are very difficult to work with 😦

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oh wait...

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i wonder if i can specify that a phase literally lasts like a second 🤔

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 9:34 PM

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What would you want to happen after that Phase ended? Couldn't you just release the Schedule altogether?

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/release

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 9:45 PM

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yeah, so i would have to listen for the schedule update, and then manually release the schedule myself

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it would be nice if perhaps stripe just did it automatically. it seems a reason to have as schedule is to ensure that a change happens on a certain date. once that change is complete it would make sense that the schedule no longer has a reason to live on 🤔

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 9:51 PM

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If you're listening for the subscription_schedule.updated event, then you could just code your webhook handler to programmatically release the Subscription for you. Totally hear you though. It would be cool if Subscription Schedules just had an off-switch that didn't require working with the Phases contained within them

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 9:59 PM

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yeah, we will look into that for now. but consider this a feature request 😅

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thanks!

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 10:02 PM

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Sure thing! And for reference, if you'd like to make a feature request, feel free to reach out to our support folks: https://support.stripe.com/contact/email

They have workflows that track these types of requests and surface them to the product team.

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 10:10 PM

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fun note 👋 i tested setting a schedule with a phase that is 1 second long https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/subscriptions/sub_1LFmWTDAWTp2PXOwDBW9U7yb

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it seemed to tick over into the next phase correctly and generate an invoice for the reduced qty

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but the subscription itself does not appear to have changed... and the schedule is not releasing

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very interesting 😅

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oh, it seemed to have corrected itself 7 minutes later 🤔

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 10:18 PM

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Ah! Interesting. So the hypothesis was proven, if a bit delayed then?

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 10:18 PM

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yeah. but that delay is large enough that i would be concerned about race conditions. so it may not be worth it 🤔

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 10:21 PM

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What type of process is in place that depends on it? Could you have a separate handler that listens for subscription_schedule.released before doing the thing?

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 10:27 PM

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the types of processes that depend on it would all be user triggered

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and we are basically finding ourselves constantly doing this sort of check: if there is no schedule, update the subscription, if there is a schedule, check if there is an upcoming phase, if not, so something, if yes, do something else

uncut hearth Jun 28, 2022, 10:29 PM

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Ahhhh, okay. So theoretically they could navigate to do the thing within the few minutes between when the schedule is released and when the call is actually made to release it

dense widget Jun 28, 2022, 10:29 PM

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well that is an exceptional race condition, probably unlikely...

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but anyways, that is cool, i can check on other things to work with. thanks for rubber ducking

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