Onetime/Lifetime Subscription Billing

[Priyabrata Sarkar]

I just discovered Onetime / Lifetime Billing option is not supported by Stripe, this is a drawback since thousands of membership sites uses this feature and definitely in need, for now I am managing create customer + create charge to add the functionality to my Stripe implementation in MagicMembers some how but this is not a stable solution, there  should be an option to create onetime/lifetime re-billing option in Stripe with Subscription node as regular subscriptions.

Recurly API supports that by means of "Number of Billing Cycles" where I can put 1 to make a regular recurring / renewed subscription as onetime/lifetime

[Russell Davis]

Hi Priyabrata,

Our current suggestion for this is to use a single charge, rather than
a subscription, for this use case (which it sounds like you're doing).
That said, we can see how it could be useful to have a subscription
for this. Although we likely won't get to it immediately, I've added
it to our list of feature requests. Sorry for any trouble here; let us
know if there's anything else we can help with.

Best,
Russell

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[Priyabrata Sarkar]

Yes, create customer and charge followed by that works somehow, but I have to mock the subscriptions node in response received in each api call occurrence. also since charge is being used to purchase other contents, it is difficult to identify which one is for subscription and which is simple charge. When we use customers action to get last payment status that also fails since I can not pick a charge as "subsccription" since they can be mixed. Having a subscription node and actually once billing cycle subscription will solve the problem, I do not have to check thus in places, rebill status and cancelable subscription.

From client perspective they will try to find the one time payment under subscription but currently they can not, this may lead to some confusion for sure.

thanks