Hi Jonny,
Thanks for writing in. All reasonable asks.
> 1. Ability to "preview" adding or updating a subscription to see Stripe's
> calculation of the charges. Especially for prorated charges.
I would be the last to disagree that this would be useful, but I can't
say that we have immediate plans to implement such a feature.
> 2. The ability to create and invoice multiple subscriptions at the same
> time. For example. a subscription for $10/mo and a subscription for $30/year
> are created and a single $40 invoice is generated with two invoice items.
> This way all initial charges happen at once in a single transaction.
> 3. It sounds like there are already plans to support renewing selected
> subscriptions together in a single invoice/transaction. This would be
> excellent!
We're still working out the details of what want to build here, but we
will do *something* to address the pain point for people that have
billing relationships that are too complex to represent with just one
plan, but that should bill jointly rather than independently. I can't
offer a timeline for this yet.
> 4. The ability to specify how many days early that a subscription (or plans)
> should be renewed (e.g. 30 days early on 12 month periods). That way if
> there are costs associated with renewing the customer's service those costs
> can be avoided if the customer fails to pay in time.
This, I think we can help you with, at least indirectly. Very shortly
(should be within the next 2 weeks) we will be introducing a "custom
billing cycle anchor" parameter that should let you do things like
"create a yearly subscription, charge for a full year now, and then
the next billing cycle date is in 11 months, not 12 months."
I think that we'd stop short of letting the "billing date" deviate
from the current_period_end because on our side, periods *are* when to
bill, but letting you flexibly set the billing anchor should hopefully
address the core of the pain point there.
Jim
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