Immediately charge for subscription changes

Question

We are using Stripe payment processing for our customer\'s subscriptions. When users change plans, we want them to be charged immediately for the prorated difference. Stripe

Answer 1

You can use billing_cycle_anchor set to now when updating a subscription to force it to change the billing cycle and thus always charge the customer immediately. Personally I think this makes a lot more sense. Also this works well with prorating.

await stripe.subscriptions.update(subscription.id, {
  billing_cycle_anchor: 'now',
  items: [{ id: itemId, plan: planId }]
});

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/billing-cycle#changing