NO_BILLING_PERIOD billing period not setting charge through date correct

[Rajan Sharma]

Hi folks,

We are facing an issue that Charged Through Date is not set correctly on creating a FIXEDTERM subscription. Following is our catalog object: 

[{"name":"CATALOG-448b0156-4920-4fbc-bd4c-ab58bf3fd311","effectiveDate":"2022-07-04T00:00:00.000+00:00","currencies":["USD"],"units":[],"products":[{"type":"BASE","name":"DUES-19779","prettyName":"DUES-19779","plans":[{"name":"PLAN-27775-2022-07-04","prettyName":"PLAN-27775-2022-07-04","billingPeriod":"NO_BILLING_PERIOD","phases":[{"type":"FIXEDTERM","prices":[],"fixedPrices":[{"currency":"USD","value":1000}],"duration":{"unit":"DAYS","number":365},"usages":[]}]}],"included":[],"available":[]}],"priceLists":[{"name":"DEFAULT","plans":["PLAN-27775-2022-07-04"]}]}]

If you see the above catalog, a subscription is set for 365 days duration and $1000 is paid upfront for the whole year subscription, but when we see the Charged Through Date in the KB admin panel, it is set to the same as start date, and we were wondering that it must be set to next year.

Can anyone please look into this scenario and share the solution?

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

RJay

[Reshma Bidikar]

Hello Ranjan,

I see that your catalog contains a FIXEDTERM phase with a fixedPrice of $1000. The chardedThroughDate is applicable only for recurring subscriptions and represents the last day of the recurring period associated with a given subscription that has been charged for.

If you would like to see the  chardedThroughDate   updated with the last day the user is billed for,  you can create a plan with a RECURRING price as shown below:

  <plan name="p1-annual">

            <product>p1</product>
            <initialPhases>
            </initialPhases>
            <finalPhase type="FIXEDTERM">
                <duration>
                    <unit>DAYS</unit>
                    <number>365</number>
                </duration>
                <recurring>
                    <billingPeriod>ANNUAL</billingPeriod>
                    <recurringPrice>
                        <price>
                            <currency>USD</currency>
                            <value>1000</value>
                        </price>
                    </recurringPrice>
                </recurring>                
            </finalPhase>
        </plan>

I hope this helps!

Regards,

Reshma

[Rajan Sharma]

Hi  Reshma,

Thanks for your prompt response.

I got your point that we have to use recurring subscriptions to get chargedThroughDate set in the subscriptions. But if you see the screenshot, that I shared earlier, it's showing chargedThroughDate same as Start Date. Don't you think either it must be showing empty or calculate it from the duration (which is specified in the catalog)?

Cheers,

Rajan Sharma

[Rajan Sharma]

Also, If we used a recurring subscription, the user will be charged after 1 year again, but we don't want to renew the subscription in this particular case.

[karan bansal]

Hi Rajan,

Currently the ChargedThroughDate is defined in context of recurring subscriptions only. However, it should also be updated in case of fixed term one with fixed one time charge.  We have raised a feature for the Devs to look into it and include in upcoming releases. 

Regards

Karan

[Rajan Sharma]

Hello Karan,

Thanks for your response. Much appreciated!!.

Also, can you please look into this ticket?

Regards,

Rajan Sharma

[karan bansal]

Hi Rajan,

Just for reference, this is the ticket logged to track this issue : https://github.com/killbill/killbill/issues/1739

For the question related to generating invoices for the follow up subscription, we are looking into it, will update you as soon as we find further information.

Regards

Karan

[Rajan Sharma]

Thanks, Karan!