Level 75
See the section Adding Subscriptions.
Ref: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/billing#creating-subscriptions Scroll down a little.
Jun 20, 2020
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Level 18
Help me understand what does the subscription name do in Laravel Cashier
Hi there, I am just a bit confused about the usage of the subscription name and WHEN I should use it.
I have this scenario when I have 3 subscriptions plans 1- Freelance 2- Company 3- Organization
and I have for those 3 plans"monthly and yearly" subscription, and in my Stripe account, I have 6 plans "freelance-monthly, freelance-yearly, ...etc"
now my subscription name should be "Freelance or Company"? or should be "default"? and I can check for the current plan the user is in?
I am just a bit confused, what is the case to handle this kind of situation?
Level 2
Stumbled upong here AFTER looking the documentation. Unless I'm missing something, the only think the docs say is:
The first argument passed to the newSubscription method should be the name of the subscription. If your application only offers a single subscription, you might call this default or primary.
And left me with the same doubt. Should I treat it as two different subscriptions or should I treat it like one subscription with different intervals?
Level 2
Just to answer this question for anyone wondering too:
The name is used to implement access control, that means that
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If the monthly and yearly subscriptions have exactly the same access then the name should be the same.
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If you had some kind of "pro" subscription that gave the users access to more parts of the product then you should use different names and use them in the middleware to block access accordingly
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Level 13
@Aridez Someone should create a pull request for the Laravel docs and add this in (maybe I will). This was very helpful. Thanks!
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Level 1
Thank you. Why can't this be stated in the documentation? I like Laravel, but sometimes this "it works, stop asking questions and pass strings, dummy" approach gets on my nerves.
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Level 6
Having people subscribe to your, say, SaaS, is very valuable and important. Stripe is from its origins an online payment processor. Stripe is complicated. Therefore Cashier is complicated. The documentation for both isn't written well and is confusing. It's a pretty big, hard job. @taylorotwell @jeffreyway
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