How to change the next billing date with Braintree

Question

I've looked over the docs (https://www.braintreepayments.com/docs/ruby/subscriptions/overview) and cannot see if it's possible to change the next billing date of an active subscription.

We want the ability to pause our user's subscriptions without cancelling their subscription. So I'm hoping we can update the user's next billing date by 1, 3, or 6 months at a time.

Answer 1

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The list of updateable fields on subscriptions is:

• subscription id
• price
• plan
• payment method token
• add-on and discount details
• number of billing cycles
• merchant account

The next billing date is calculated, and so can't be changed.

Instead, you can add a discount that will reduce the price to zero for a number of months:

result = Braintree::Subscription.update(
  "the_subscription_id",
  :discounts => {
    :add => [
      {
        :inherited_from_id => "discount_id_1",
        :amount => BigDecimal.new("7.00"),
        :number_of_billing_cycles => 3
      }
    ]
  }
)