Level 47
Does the canceled plan still with in the expiration time? And when it expires are you putting the user back to a free plan?
Sep 5, 2016
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Level 7
How to get the User's current plan in Spark?
Hey Guys,
I tried using the User->sparkPlan() method to get the user's current plan, but in testing I noticed that it doesn't return the Free plan if a user was previously on a paid plan and had canceled the plan. In that case, it continues to return the previous paid plan, not the free plan like I would expect.
Is there a different built in method I should be using to get the user's current plan? Or do I need to build my own version of sparkPlan() to get the true current plan?
Level 7
When the plan is cancelled, Stripe sends the callback and the subscription in the subscriptions table is updated with a new ends_at date / time. When the current date passes the ends_at date, the User->sparkPlan() still returns the expired plan, but the subscribed middleware returns false. For this reason, I would expect sparkPlan() to return the free plan but it doesn't so I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it's expected that we implement a process to move the user back to the free plan.
The doc block for the sparkPlan() method says:
/**
* Get the Spark plan that corresponds with the given subscription.
*
* If they are not subscribed and a free plan exists, that will be returned.
*
* @param string $subscription
* @return \Laravel\Spark\Plan|null
*/
So based on that description, I'm assuming that it's a bug.
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Level 1
@tptompkins What happen is, when user cancel subscription, he is still using that plan until last subscription time is finished.
Level 1
Try using:
Spark::plans()->where('id', $user->current_billing_plan)->first();
This workinf for me as is checking the current billing plan directly on the user object.
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