Add support for pausing a subscription when trial ends without a payment method

[krishsatya]

Feature request

• Extension name: firestore-stripe-payments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I want to offer users the option to go through checkout without a payment option, which is already supported with payment_method_collection: "if_required". However, if their trial ends and they haven't provided a payment method, I'd like the subscription to be paused instead of cancelled.

Describe the solution you'd like

I believe the solution is to include the below map into subscription_data, similar to what's being done for trial_period_days. Could be as simple as exposing a field called trial_end_behavior that takes a string and defaults to "cancel".

trial_settings: {
  end_behavior: {
    missing_payment_method: "paused",
  },
}

Describe alternatives you've considered

I suppose I could wait for the subscription object to get created and then modify it after checkout. Not ideal though.

Additional context

n/a

[ibrahimbroachwala]

+1 with a need for this param.

[thetwentyseven]

+1 Yes please, I have updated the latest firebase extension to remove the stripe one, and replace it with the invertase, and downloaded the new package too and it seems it does not allow to add payment_method_collection: "if_required" in

import { createCheckoutSession } from "@invertase/firestore-stripe-payments";

const session = await createCheckoutSession(payments, {
  price: myPriceId,
  payment_method_collection: "if_required"
});
window.location.assign(session.url);

[thetwentyseven]

This is actually working for me now in my local. I forgot to remove the extension in my local.

firebase ext:uninstall --local stripe/firestore-stripe-payments

and add the correct one

firebase ext:install --local invertase/firestore-stripe-payments

Make sure you do not install it along one another because the extension instance name will change and you will have to configure a new endpoint.

Then I just added the following:

import { createCheckoutSession } from "@invertase/firestore-stripe-payments";

const session = await createCheckoutSession(payments, {
  price: myPriceId,
  trial_period_days: 30,
  payment_method_collection: 'if_required',
  billing_address_collection: 'auto',
});
window.location.assign(session.url);

[chuaz97]

Any news about that? I'm using free trial with no credit card but pause at the end should be nice to have

[JackSmurthwaite]

+1 this is needed