Creating Plan

[Rui Fernandes]

Good evening,

If I create via API a Stripe plan, and then I create it again, will it remain equal as it was, or will it be deleted disconfigurating my customers previous plans?

I ask this because I can't get a relevant answer from my testing mode.

Kind regards,

Kepler

[Jonathan Lomas]

Hi Kepler!

If you create a Stripe Plan, and then create Subscriptions to that Plan, and then delete the Plan, the already-subscribed Customers will remain on the originally-specified Plan.

If you then create it again with the same ID, but with different parameters, the previously subscribed Customers will still be on the previously created Plan - with the previous parameters - but any new Customers would go on the new Plan.

For example:

- You create `awesome-plan` at $5/mo;
- 50 Customers subscribe to `awesome-plan` at $5/mo;

- You delete the plan, but all 50 Customers stay subscribed at $5/mo;

- The 50 Customers that had already described are still on the `awesome-plan`, and still paying $5/mo;

- You recreate `awesome-plan` but at $10/mo;
- Any new Customers that sign up for `awesome-plan` will be paying $10/mo, but the original 50 Customers will remain at $5/mo for as long as their Subscription is active;

Hopefully that clears things up a bit!

Cheers,

Jonathan

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[Rui Fernandes]

Hi

Definetly clears things up :) But what if I create a plan and then - without deleting it - create it again with the same id? Will it be erased or stay equal? Or will I get an error?

Kid regards

Kepler

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:02 PM, 'Jonathan Lomas' via Stripe API Discussion <api-d...@lists.stripe.com> wrote:

Hi Kepler!

If you create a Stripe Plan, and then create Subscriptions to that Plan, and then delete the Plan, the already-subscribed Customers will remain on the originally-specified Plan.

If you then create it again with the same ID, but with different parameters, the previously subscribed Customers will still be on the previously created Plan - with the previous parameters - but any new Customers would go on the new Plan.

For example:

- You create `awesome-plan` at $5/mo;
- 50 Customers subscribe to `awesome-plan` at $5/mo;

- You delete the plan, but all 50 Customers stay subscribed at $5/mo;

- The 50 Customers that had already described are still on the `awesome-plan`, and still paying $5/mo;

- You recreate `awesome-plan` but at $10/mo;
- Any new Customers that sign up for `awesome-plan` will be paying $10/mo, but the original 50 Customers will remain at $5/mo for as long as their Subscription is active;

Hopefully that clears things up a bit!

Cheers,

Jonathan

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:57 PM Rui Fernandes <rui.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

Good evening,

If I create via API a Stripe plan, and then I create it again, will it remain equal as it was, or will it be deleted disconfigurating my customers previous plans?

I ask this because I can't get a relevant answer from my testing mode.

Kind regards,

Kepler

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[Olivier Bellone]

Hey Kepler,

If you try to create a plan while a plan with the same ID already exists, then the API would return an error. You can easily test this in live mode:

$ curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/plans \

  -u $STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: \

  -d id=awesome-plan \

  -d name="My Awesome Plan" \

  -d amount=500 \

  -d currency=usd \

  -d interval=month

{

  "id": "awesome-plan",

  "object": "plan",

  ...

}

$ curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/plans \

  -u $STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: \

  -d id=awesome-plan \

  -d name="My New Awesome Plan" \

  -d amount=1000 \

  -d currency=usd \

  -d interval=month

{

  "error": {

    "type": "invalid_request_error",

    "message": "Plan already exists."

  }

}

Hope this helps!

Best,

Olivier

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[Olivier Bellone]

Oops! I obviously meant "You can easily test this in test mode", not "in live mode".

[Andre Marcelo-Tanner]

This is magic, i wish i knew about this sooner. Pls document this quirk. Ive been toying with coupons and discounts to get subscriptions with different prices to use the same plan

[Olivier Bellone]

Hey Andre,

This behavior is briefly documented here: https://stripe.com/docs/subscriptions/plans#changing-and-deleting-plans.

> Deleting a plan does not affect any existing subscribers of that plan, but new customers cannot be subscribed to it.

Best,

Olivier