How to disable free trial on subscription creation?

[kenansd]

By default we have created a plan that contains a 7 day free trial. However in some cases we do not want to provide the free trial, for example if the user has already used the free trial during a previous subscription. What is the best way to implement this use case on the creation of a new subscription? The create subscription API, https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/subscriptions/v1/#subscriptions_create provides the ability to override the plan. However in our testing, it was not clear that we could remove a billing_cycle in this way. An alternate solution we are considering is creating two plans, one with a trial and one without, however this adds some additional complexity and maintenance. Is there a way to override a subscription plan to disable or enable the free trial step?

[MTS-Aaron · Accepted solution]

Hi @kenansd 

Unfortunately, it sounds like creating another plan would be your best bet for this scenario. There isn't really a way to "toggle" a trial off for a given plan. In that case, it should just be easier to pass a different plan ID in the creation call.

I hope that helps!

-Aaron

[kenansd]

Thanks @MTS-Aaron Any suggestions for my other posts? It is greatly appreciated. Thanks!