trial_ends_at is getting marked as NULL when webhook is received about cashier-stripe

[driesvints]

This is because of #1628. When a subscription starts, we clear the generic trial period because it's no longer needed because your customer is now paying for their subscription.

The code you share is also an odd combination of a generic trial and a subscription trial, something we don't support and never intended to be combined. You either choose one or the other but not both.

[sts-ryan-holton]

Ah right. For my scenario the user is on effectively a "lifetime" subscription, which I'm utilising the trial for. They do not add payment methods, this is because they've bought a "redemption code" through a third-party vendor and are redeeming it on their account at sign-up.

How might I manage this? Because I'm setting the trial for a year, so Stripe shows their trial ending in a year, but I need to extend their trial every month or so by a month so it never ends, thus "lifetime".

Could I just call the extend method?

@driesvints

[driesvints]

We can't provide support for a customization like that sorry. Lifetime subscriptions can also be granted by providing a 100% discount coupon code once they did a one-time purchase for a lifetime subscription. If you want to take things further you can keep a record of one time purchases in the app and then check if they purchased a "lifetime" subscription. There's some very basic starting docs on this in Cashier's QuickStart docs: https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/billing#quickstart-selling-products