How to check if the user is one trial or subscribed to any plan about cashier-paddle

[techguydev]

I have found that with

$user->onGenericTrial();

Works great to check if the user is on any trial, since I am handling the trial in the model.

Is there something similar to check if the user is on any active plan or should I concatenate conditional statements of each plan to check it?

[techguydev]

This seems to work well to check if the user has any active subscription :
$user->subscriptions()->where('paddle_status','active')->count() >= 1

[driesvints]

Hey @techguydev, that's described here: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/cashier-paddle#checking-subscription-status

Is that what you need?

[techguydev]

Hi @driesvints

if ($user->subscribed('default')){

}

Works great if you have just one subscription type.

In my use case I have 3 subscriptions types:basic,pro,unlimited.

I am creating a workflow where I need to check if a given user has any subscriptions at all ( of any type) or if he/she is on trial, or on trial with a given subscription.

I might just join them like this:

if ($user->subscribed('basic') || $user->subscribed('pro') || $user->subscribed('unlimited') ){
//
}

I just wanted to know if there is any function that consider any active subscription to a given user.

[driesvints]

Hey @techguydev, no there isn't such a feature atm it seems. If you indeed only need to check the active state you can do

$user->subscriptions()->active()->count() >= 1

But that's not the same as subscribed which takes into account "valid" subscriptions:

    /**
     * Determine if the subscription is active, on trial, or within its grace period.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function valid()
    {
        return $this->active() || $this->onTrial() || $this->onPausedGracePeriod() || $this->onGracePeriod();
    }

I'll mark this as a feature request.

[techguydev]

Thanks @driesvints

[frkcn]

Hey @techguydev, no there isn't such a feature atm it seems. If you indeed only need to check the active state you can do

$user->subscriptions()->active()->count() >= 1

This PR fixed this problem. #22

[techguydev]

@frkcn looks interesting this approach.

[Hussam3bd]

@techguydev

I'm not sure but I think the right approach is to keep one subscription the "default"
and create 3 plans "Basic, pro, unlimited"

then you can check if the user subscribed and which plan the user subscribed to

if ($user->subscribedToPlan($basicMonthly = 12345, 'default')) {
    //
}

I'm doing it this way in my SaaS,

[techguydev]

Thanks @Hussam3bd

@driesvints What do you think about this approach?

[driesvints]

In general I agree yeah. I think in your use case you want different plans but one type of subscription.

I'm gonna leave the issue open for a bit because I can still see a use case of adding a method to see if a user has any active subscription at all.

[driesvints]

Closing this as it's now possible again to do $user->subscriptions()->active()->count() if you want.

[techguydev]

I am not sure I am understanding the difference between Subscription and Plan.

In my casa each plan has different access to my app, so the subscription if kind of different too.

how are you guys handling different access levels with different plans?