Stripe Subscriptions with trial

Hey Mike 👋

Yep exactly! You should be able to do that with the Stripe webhooks.

Cashier has a builtin support for handling those as well.

Handling Stripe Webhooks

And from that Stripe Wave PR, you should have it available as well:

Wave Stripe PR webhook route

And from the PR readme file:

If you are using the Paddle Payment provider, the webhook is already configured; however, if you are using Stripe you will need to add the following URL to your routes/web.php in order to listen Cancel or Updates in the client account.

YOUR_URL/wave-stripe/webhook

Let me know if this works for you!

- Bobby

Hello Bobby.

Seems like the #38 has already adding all the required routes as I had those out of the box added to my wave/routes/web.php:

// Stripe routes
if (env('CASHIER_VENDOR') == 'stripe') {
	Route::post('stripe/create-checkout-session', '\Wave\Http\Controllers\StripeController@postCreateCheckoutSession')->name('stripe.create-checkout-session');
	Route::get('stripe/success-checkout-session', '\Wave\Http\Controllers\StripeController@postSuccessCheckout')->name('stripe.success-checkout');
	Route::get('stripe/error-checkout-session', '\Wave\Http\Controllers\StripeController@postErrorCheckout')->name('stripe.error-checkout');
	
	Route::get('stripe/billing-portal', '\Wave\Http\Controllers\StripeController@getBillingPortal')->name('stripe.billing-portal')->middleware('auth');

	Route::post('wave-stripe/webhook', '\Wave\Http\Controllers\WebhookController@handleWebhook')->name('stripe.webhook');
}

I will test if a change in the code triggers a change as well on the application and get back to you. This time I've setup a fresh install where I only changed the plans price_id to make sure what is the working code out of the box.

My biggest issue is to have a webhook action for switching from regular user to a Trial (after providing payment details to Stripe) and when the Trial is over, to switch to a premium user after being charged automatically.

From what I've read Stripe does issue an invoice from the beginning while in DEV/test mode as to facilitate the testing side, but I need the user webhook to catch a switch from successful payment data collection to change the status to Trial and to change the status to Premium after the trial expiry...

Hey Bobby,

I've tested on a fresh install to see how does Wave/Stripe process a trial and I made sure to have selected the trial days in the plan details (admin->plans) but in the subscriptions I see the column: trial_ends_at to be totally empty even though I have set the same trial days in my Stripe admin too.

Are there any settings to allow the trial as from what I see, Stripe is sending a webhook signal for the expiration of a subscription in the formula:

plan_duration + trial days, but the invoice is issued right away and for my understanding if a user is enrolled in a trial, it has the right to cancel it before being enrolled to a trial without being charged...

Actually, inside of the StripeController.php I am finding a value request for the trial days which can be set via admin panel > settings, but this is global for all plans even though each plan BREAD has it's own trial option so I am confused where is the trial set from admin > plans used if we have a global settings variable set to -1 in the admin panel settings?

$trial_days = setting('billing.trial_days', 0);
$trial_ends_at = null;
// if trial days is not zero we will set trial_ends_at to ending date
if (intval($trial_days) > 0) {
   $trial_ends_at = now()->addDays(setting('billing.trial_days', 0));
}

And since the creation of the script, Stripe has changed their policy to prevent allowing a trial per price of a product so I believe there is a missing workflow to intercept a call now from Stripe about the trial expiration and return a webhook to be catched so that we update an user status from Trial to Premium...