Testing past-due subscriptions and expired cards

[Ken Bowen]

For testing parts of the API:
A) I’m looking for the quickest way to force a subscription into past-due status. Our subscriptions have a 30 day trial period, without a card submitted. As soon as the subscription is set up, I use the Stripe dashboard to edit the subscription and end the trial period asap (usually it’s the “today” date). But then the subscription doesn’t usually pass into the past-due state until the next day, which I understand for normal operation. However, is there a way to “cheat” and force it into past-due sooner?

B) Is there a way to create a card that is already expired, or to force the expiration date of an existing test card backwards to become expired? I want to check out our code for letting the user update the expiration date of an expired card.

Thanks in advance,
Ken Bowen

[Matthew Arkin]

Hi Ken, 

For letter A. through the API you can set trial_end to "now". 

Letter B is tricky, There is the test card "4000000000000069  Charge will be declined with an expired_card code." however, this card would fail to attach to a customer, and all charges against it would fail. Maybe a Striper has an idea on how to best simulate a customer whose card expires during a subscription.

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[Ken Bowen]

Hi Matt,

Is “now” different from setting trial_end to today’s date on the calendar or leaving the field blank?
The API immediately pops up the calendar when I click in the trial_end field.
I left the trial_end field empty, and it did the following:
1) if there was a valid card present for the customer, it converted the subscription to Active
2) if there wasn’t a valid card present, I got the following (and the dialog stayed up):
To add a paid subscription, this customer needs an active credit card. Add one

Cheers,
Ken