Issue with Stripe and having a free trial period

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Hi everyone,

I’ve read across the forum and noticed this issue has come up in different forms but, failed to find one similar to mine so really hoping for some help.

I added a free trial period in the products section within my stripe but, this doesn’t seem to work anymore as it’s a ‘legacy’ feature. So, I went ahead and swapped the following step, Stripe (Test) - Create Checkout Session, workflow (which btw has a step to Open an external website, which is Step1’s url)…

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With the following since it has a ‘trial period’ box (and doesn’t require the opening of an external website)

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It works great when the Stripe dashboard opens up, it clearly states the Free Trial period but, now the backend workflow I’ve created to retrieve the customer’s details every time there’s a new subscription, doesn’t seem to work despite a successful webhook event. The workflow intends to capture the user’s Stripe details (Subscription ID, Subscription Item ID, Subscription plan - i.e., the Stripe ID beginning with ‘price_’) and it successfully did with the previous workflow…

My question, why is this happening? It would be great to use the second workflow, since it has a trial period box. Worth noting, in the second workflow, there is no box to enter the Current User’s Stripe_ID like we do in the first.

Would kindly appreciate any help. Many thanks in advance!!

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Forget about using stripe to control your trials. Use your own workflows and data.

User activates free trial, you make an entry into db of the trial started date and a date at which the trial will end ex: current date time + 14 days.

After that, close off access to features and prompt user to subscribe.

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Thanks @doug.burden! This is definitely an option, another one is to go into the Stripe dashboard and manually add a 14-day trial to every new subscription… Just, thought the whole Stripe/Bubble integration would be a lot simpler and more seamless, and if there’s an option to do it all via Stripe then that would make the UX marginally better.

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But that way you are only asking them to add in their credit card after the trial, right? Is there a way to make them add the card as soon as they sign up and only charge after the trial has ended?