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Christian
Christian

Reputation: 1853

Stripe CLI: testing action when trial period ends

I'd like to be able to test locally that the correct actions are taken when the trial period for a user ends.

I set up the Stripe CLI, and start listening:

stripe listen --forward-to http://localhost:8000/api/stripe-webhook

When a trial comes to an end, the customer.subscription.updated event will occur.

I trigger this event using the Stripe CLI:

stripe trigger customer.subscription.updated

On my server side I can see that payload['data']['previous_attributes'] contains a metadata array with foo = null. When a trial ends, we should get previous_attributes containing something like: { "status": "trialing"...

I'm wondering if it's possible to trigger an event using the Stripe CLI that mimics a user trial ending (or maybe even just a way to set the previous_attributes to similar values that'd occur in a live environment when a trial ends)? If it's possible to do that then it'd be a little easier to test locally that the appropriate action occurs when a trial ends without pushing to a prod-like environment.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1576

Answers (1)

karllekko
karllekko

Reputation: 7198

The easiest way is probably to just use trial_end to set a very short trial period either when creating a subscription, or on an existing subscription, and wait a couple of minutes for it to end, at which point it will generate the appropriate events.

stripe subscriptions update sub_HpOl9vDMzIEfGf --trial-end=`date -v +5M +%s`

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing#trials

https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/update#update_subscription-trial_end

Upvotes: 5

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