Spark User with Multiple Subscriptions

Does anyone have any feedback regarding multiple subscriptions?

Out of the box spark will always swap subscriptions - meaning if there is a new subscription added it will replace the current one.

Also the database is setup in a way taylored to one subscription at a time (e.g. consider the user table field current_billing_plan which only allwows one value.

Last time I used the Stripe API, 1 subscription at a time was baked into the Stripe API. Not sure if they have changed this.

@EventFellows, thanks for your reply. I've also noticed that Spark swaps subscription and that the users table has the current_billing_plan column.

@skattabrain, I've based my question above from this link ( https://support.stripe.com/questions/can-customers-have-multiple-subscriptions ) Since Stripe clearly supports multiple subscription I was leaning to the possibility on having Spark support it as well.

I've also read someone talked about having to use the quantity attribute that Stripe has. So maybe my question now is what's the best approach in implementing multiple subscriptions using Laravel Spark?

Thank you

Looks like @TaylorOtwell has replied to me in twitter stating that multiple subscription needs to be integrated on our own. :)

https://twitter.com/bkintanar/status/737575780054491138

Thanks!

Thanks!

@bkintanar Has anyone figured this out? We are improvising the same type of deal, multiple subscriptions within Laravel Spark, any references or examples would be awesome!

@SummaBC I'm not aware there's a solution out of the box with Spark.

The only solution I have found is to use the item quantity by using

Spark::chargePerSeat('Seat', function($user) {
            return $user->seats()->count();
        });

It falls short of an ideal solution because the user can't sign up for multiple plans, but it does offer a way to sign up for multiple instances of the same plan. (if that makes sense)

You do have to manually increase and decrease the quantity accordingly in your code to keep your records and Stripe's in sync