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Hey @rickschmidt — curious if you found a solution here. Considering using Spark on a small project, but it definitely requires quarterly billing. I would love to know that Spark supports that before diving in.
May 25, 2017
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Defining Quarterly Billing in Spark
Hey all,
What is the best way to implement quarterly billing in Spark? The documentation covers monthly and yearly use cases, and I do not see a method to modify the interval_count. I am using Stripe, and their API does have an interval_count field which would suffice for this purpose (https://stripe.com/docs/api#create_plan).
Thoughts?
Thank you! Rick
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@amsoell I did actually! So out of the box, Spark doesn't have this. But I found out that the billing plans are actually defined on Stripes side (haven't worked with Braintree). Spark is just using the service provider to use the Stripe API to subscribe a user to a specific plan, so the ->monthly() or ->yearly() is not the mechanism that triggers when the billing is process. On Stripe's end, you can make a quarterly billing period without an issue.
What the service provider does do is basically use ->monthly() or ->yearly() to configure all of the views across the app from the select a plan page/register page and for the Kiosk feature. So the manual solution will be to find everywhere Spark outputs $xxx / month or year and you need to update it to / quarter or something along that.
Hope that helps!
Rick
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