Stripe | Billing Cycle | Proration

Need help APIs
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Hey,

So I am using stripe API to charge the user. When creating a billing portal session I am trying to pass the billing_cycle_anchor=now as a parameter so when a user updates a subscription he should be charged immediately/invoice.

https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-billing_thresholds-reset_billing_cycle_anchor

But it is not working. Also, I disabled the proration.

I tested this use case, and it works from the stripe dashboard but not the API.

Any solution?

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It says it needs to be a future time. The billing cycle anchor should be Current date time +months (1):formatted as UNIX (i.e the date of the next invoice)

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@georgecollier Thank you for your response. I am unable to initialize the call. Please check the following screenshots

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Well that’s because you’re calling the billing portal session endpoint… Stripe API reference – Create a portal session – curl - that doesn’t support billing_cycle_anchor.

You can set the billing cycle anchor / proration behaviour in the Stripe dashboard then redirect customers to a portal. Alternatively, you can use the update a subscription API call detailed here: Stripe API reference – Update a subscription – curl and the billing_cycle_anchor parameter like you’ve done correctly as a parameter in your portal session API call.

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Worked!

Thanks man

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I am having a similar issue - any chance you can screenshot how to use the API call to update a subscription alongside the billing portal API call in the workflow? I am using a custom billing portal, but need to be able to update the billing cycle anchor and proration date

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Hey there! Would you mind sharing how you incorporated the billing cycle anchor parameter into your portal session API call?

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You need to make the API call and set the anchor parameter. For further information please refer to the stripe documentation as it explains everything in detail.

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I have read the Stripe documentation and scoured the forum for weeks, but it is not clear how to incorporate the ‘update customer subscription’ call that has the billing_cycle_anchor parameter with the configured portal session. I was hoping someone could screenshot their workflow setup to see how they did this. Thanks anyway.